Henry Cavill's Warhammer 40K Universe Inches Closer To Reality
In the grim dark future of the 41st millennium, there is only... contract negotiations? A year ago Games Workshop announced that it was working with Amazon Studios to bring the universe of its legendary sci-fi miniatures game Warhammer 40,000 to film and TV. 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 actually necessarily final, but one of the earliest stages of the licensing process: an agreement in principle. What’s happened now is that the agreement is, well... no longer just in principle. Amazon now has the rights to make Warhammer 40,000 film and TV projects, hire talent to develop them and then, eventually, put some of those ideas into production.
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That doesn’t necessarily mean Cavill will star in those projects, but... c’mon. C’mon. That man is too much of a 40K nerd to not show up in some capacity during all of this. He’ll be advising behind the scenes and no doubt lecturing as many people as he can pin down on the nitty gritty details of Warhammer lore, but that doesn’t preclude him from appearing on-screen. As who? Time will tell, but we’ve previously had some very silly suggestions about that.
This article originally appeared on Gizmodo’s io9.
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