Deadline has confirmed that Amazon Studio has officially secured the global rights to the Warhammer 40,000 game from Games Workshop. The agreement encompasses rights to the universe across TV series, film, and likely games and animation.
According to
The Hollywood Reporter, Henry Cavill is putting DC Studio behind him and jumping over to Amazon as he's attached to star and executive produce a series adaptation of Warhammer 40,000, the popular science-fiction fantasy miniature wargame.
Amazon and Games Workshop, producers of the game are in the final talks after months of negotiations and fending off rival companies that also sought the rights. As of now, there are no writers or showrunners for the series, although Vertigo Entertainment is attached to also executive produce.
Warhammer is akin to Dungeons & Dragons — dice are involved in the playing — but also features intricate miniatures that players can place and move around a model-constructed battlefield or world. Games Workshop in the 1980s made miniatures for D&D and launched the game in 1987. It has become the most popular miniature wargame in the world and spawned many imitators. The game’s setting is 40,000 years into the future where things are dark indeed. Human civilization has stopped progressing and is in an unending war with aliens and magical beings, with gods and demons figuring into a theological class system. The humans make up the Imperium of Man, which is militaristic. A race of skeleton-like androids is known as the Necron; there is an elvish race known as Aeldari as well as Orks; Tyranids are nasty aliens, and the T’au is a blue-skinned alien race that may offer some hope.
The project is still in the early stages and Amazon has yet to close the deal.
I hope he still does the Highlander remake he was attached to!
I dont know anything about Warhammer 40k but it seems like one of the reasons Cavill left The Witcher was that he was a big fan of the source material and didnt like how they were treating it in the series (To be honest I dont know much of The Witcher either and I was enjoying the series), hopefully with him not only being an actor but also serving as a producer in Warhammer 40K he'll have more input on the treatment of the franchise and stick more to the source material, cause as far as he's made it known he's an even bigger fan of Warhammer than he was was for the Witcher. So I guess Great news for him, I wish him luck, I dont think he deserved how DC treated him all these years
Deadline has confirmed that Amazon Studio has officially secured the global rights to the Warhammer 40,000 game from Games Workshop. The agreement encompasses rights to the universe across TV series, film, and likely games and animation.
Oh thats cool. Heard he was a big wh40k fan actually lol.
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