In the grim dark future ofthe 41st millenary , there is only … contract bridge negotiations?A twelvemonth agoGames Workshop announced that it was working with Amazon Studios to bring the existence of itslegendary sci - fi miniature gameWarhammer 40,000 to take and idiot box . Today it did so again , but now it ’s even officialler .
So What’s Actually Changed Between Amazon and Games Workshop?
The deal announced in December 2022 was not really necessarily last , but one of the earliest stages of the licensing appendage : an concord in principle . What ’s happened now is that the concord is , well … no longer just in rule . Amazon now has the rights to make Warhammer 40,000 film and idiot box projects , rent talent to develop them and then , eventually , put some of those thought into production .
“ All we can severalise you decently now is that an elite stria of screenwriters , each with their own particular heat for Warhammer , is being assemble to serve bring the setting and characters you love to the CRT screen , ” Games Workshop said ina new statementreleased today .
This means work can actually begin on adapting Warhammer ’s dystopian scope , and also that it ’s go to be a considerable chunk of time before we see anything out of it . “ tv set and Film production is a gigantic project . It ’s not unusual for projects to take two to three years from this point before something arrives on screen , ” Games Workshop admonish lover in its press release . Case in point : back in 2019 , the games newspaper publisher discover that it was developing a TV serial publication with Spotnitz Productions based around the fictional character of Gregor Eisenhorn , an Inquisitorin the Imperium of Man ’s order of zealous investigators into corruption and heterodoxy . We ’ve reasonably much discover nothing since , not even that plans to make it have fallen apart — although that now seems much more probable if Amazon has wholesale access to the adaptive rights for 40 K as a setting , Eisenhorn included .
Image: Games Workshop, Kate Green (Getty Images)
Is Henry Cavill Still Involved With Amazon’s Warhammer 40K Projects?
Yup ! The formerSupermanandWitcher — an unabashed buff of 40 K who has used his platform in recent years togeek out about his miniatures — will still executive produce Amazon ’s projects , regardless of the human body they take , “ bringing his pen , brand and/or spear to the labor , ” as Games Workshop put it in the company ’s command .
That does n’t necessarily mean Cavill will star in those projects , but … c’m on . C’m on . That man is too much of a 40 K nerd to not show up in some capacity during all of this . He ’ll be advise behind the scenes and no doubt lecturing as many people as he can pin down on the nitty game detail of Warhammer traditional knowledge , but that does n’t forbid him from appearing on - screen . As who ? Time will tell , but we ’ve antecedently had somevery silly suggestionsabout that .
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