Games Workshop Addresses Long Wait for Henry Cavill's Warhammer 40,000 Cinematic Universe, Confirms Standalone Warhammer Age of Sigmar Animation for Prime Video

Games Workshop has addressed the agelong hold for Henry Cavill’s Warhammer 40,000 Cinematic Universe, insisting that Amazon is successful power of the transportation of the adaptation.

Former Superman histrion and Warhammer 40,000 person Henry Cavill is acceptable to prima successful and enforcement nutrient the live-action Warhammer 40,000 adaptation for Prime Video.

Cavill's Warhammer 40,000 Cinematic Universe is shrouded successful mystery, and Games Workshop itself has cautioned fans not to expect to spot thing of it for immoderate time. But it is present implicit 3 years since Games Workshop’s woody with Amazon was announced, and fans person yet to spot thing of it, oregon perceive thing tangible astir it.

In its latest fiscal results (the agelong and abbreviated of it is that Games Workshop is doing tremendously good and making loads of money), CEO Kevin Rountree addressed the elephant successful the room: conscionable what is going connected with the Amazon stuff?

“We proceed to enactment connected immoderate breathtaking projects that volition bring Warhammer to screens similar ne'er before,” Rountree said, keeping his cards adjacent to his chest. “Our unrecorded enactment endeavour is inactive successful improvement with our partners: Amazon MGM Studios, Henry Cavill and Vertigo. It is the quality of these things to instrumentality respective years, and portion we privation we could necktie down a merchandise the mode we tin with our halfway business, the world is that, arsenic with immoderate licensing deal, transportation is not successful our control. We permission it to our partners to negociate their ain businesses.”

That doesn’t assistance fans much, to beryllium honest. But astatine slightest we cognize the task is inactive successful the works and hasn’t been mislaid to the Warp. Fans person spent the past fewer years successful a authorities of enduring excitement astir the imaginable of yet seeing Warhammer 40,000 brought to beingness successful live-action signifier crossed films and TV shows — and with Cavill steering the ship, they’re assured it volition beryllium done right. Hopefully we'll get immoderate details, including who Cavill himself volition play, soon.

However, condensing the immense scope of Warhammer 40,000 into films and TV shows portion sticking to a tenable fund whitethorn beryllium a challenge. Warhammer 40,000 is simply a highly elaborate mounting with aggregate factions, thousands of years of warfare played retired connected a galactic scale, and, astatine the bosom of it all, tremendous Space Marines who often combat against adjacent bigger monsters. We’re talking abstraction battles that tin past hundreds of years, gargantuan onshore battles that tin devour full planets, and the Warp, a spot truthful unknowable that it tin beryllium beauteous overmuch thing you tin imagine.

In that context, what communicative volition Cavill tell? Does it request to beryllium much grounded than a large galactic epic? We’re near with scraps to mull over, specified arsenic caller comments from Dan Abnett astir NDAs and upcoming books.

In June past year, Cavill himself touched connected the “complexity” and “trickiness” of adapting the Warhammer 40,000 IP. But, helium insisted, he’s loving the challenge, which for fans volition beryllium large to hear. Bringing Warhammer to beingness "is a imagination travel true," Cavill said, "but it's antithetic from what I've done before, successful the consciousness I haven't had my manus connected the tiller of things before. It's fantastic doing that. It is simply a tricky IP, and a precise analyzable IP, and that's what I emotion astir it. The challenges that travel with putting this connected the leafage successful a mode that is doing justness to that complexity, that trickiness, and that nuance, is simply a situation I'm enjoying enormously."

However, Rountree did person 1 coagulated spot of quality to deliver: a standalone Warhammer Age of Sigmar occurrence is successful the works. Age of Sigmar is the phantasy information of the Warhammer universe, arsenic opposed to Warhammer 40,000's acold aboriginal setting. This caller occurrence follows connected from the hugely fashionable Warhammer 40,000 occurrence for Amazon’s animated anthology bid Secret Level, which starred Titus from Space Marine 2.

And it sounds similar there’s much to travel from a imaginable Secret Level Season 2. “After a palmy collaboration with Amazon MGM Studios and Blur for Secret Level (a high-end animated anthology show), we are present gathering with writers to find our adjacent measurement to proceed the momentum gained from that episode,” Rountree said.

“In the meantime, enactment is astir implicit connected a standalone Warhammer Age of Sigmar episode. Again, for Prime Video. We volition update you further erstwhile we person much important milestones to share.”

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