Henry Cavill’s Warhammer 40K Universe Inches Nearer To Actuality

Within the grim darkish way forward for the forty first millennium, there may be solely… contract negotiations? A yr in the past Video games Workshop introduced that it was working with Amazon Studios to convey the universe of its legendary sci-fi miniatures sport Warhammer 40,000 to movie and TV. In the present day it did so once more, however now it’s even officialler.

So What’s Really Modified Between Amazon and Video games Workshop?

The deal introduced in December 2022 was not really essentially closing, however one of many earliest levels of the licensing course of: an settlement in precept. What’s occurred now could be that the settlement is, effectively… not simply in precept. Amazon now has the rights to make Warhammer 40,000 movie and TV tasks, rent expertise to develop them after which, finally, put a few of these concepts into manufacturing.

“All we will let you know proper now could be that an elite band of screenwriters, every with their very own specific ardour for Warhammer, is being assembled to assist convey the setting and characters you like to the display screen,” Video games Workshop mentioned in a brand new assertion launched right this moment.

This implies work can really start on adapting Warhammer’s dystopian setting, and likewise that it’s going to be a substantial chunk of time earlier than we see something out of it. “TV and Movie manufacturing is a mammoth endeavor. It’s commonplace for tasks to take two to 3 years from this level earlier than one thing arrives on display screen,” Video games Workshop cautioned followers in its press launch. Working example: again in 2019, the video games writer revealed that it was growing a TV collection with Spotnitz Productions primarily based across the character of Gregor Eisenhorn, an Inquisitor within the Imperium of Man’s order of zealous investigators into corruption and heresy. We’ve just about heard nothing since, not even that plans to make it have fallen aside—though that now appears more likely if Amazon has wholesale entry to the adaptive rights for 40K as a setting, Eisenhorn included.

Is Henry Cavill Nonetheless Concerned With Amazon’s Warhammer 40K Tasks?

Yup! The previous Superman and Witcher—an unabashed fan of 40K who has used his platform lately to geek out about his miniatures—will nonetheless government produce Amazon’s tasks, whatever the type they take, “bringing his pen, sword and/or spear to the mission,” as Video games Workshop put it within the firm’s assertion.

That doesn’t essentially imply Cavill will star in these tasks, however… c’mon. C’mon. That man is an excessive amount of of a 40K nerd to not present up in some capability throughout all of this. He’ll be advising behind the scenes and little doubt lecturing as many individuals as he can pin down on the nitty gritty particulars of Warhammer lore, however that doesn’t preclude him from showing on-screen. As who? Time will inform, however we’ve beforehand had some very foolish ideas about that.

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