Henry Cavill's Warhammer 40K Show Is Happening

Long rumoured, the Henry Cavill fronted Warhammer 40K TV show is apparently officially a go at Amazon.

Amazon acquired the rights 2 years ago to produce a TV show based on Games Workshop's Warhammer 40,000 game. Deadline is reporting, and Cavill himself confirming, that the series is now officially in production.

WH40K is the most popular miniature wargame in the world. Originally published in 1987, it is on its 10th edition. Set in the far future, it mixes fantasy tropes with sci-fi in a grim, dark universe. It has spawned multiple tabletop roleplaying games, such as Dark Heresy, Rogue Trader, and more, the current lineup being publishing by Cubicle 7.

According to the deal made 2 yeasr ago, Amazon had until December 2024 to mutually agree on “creative guidelines for the films and television series to be developed by Amazon”. There is no showrunner yet. The show will also be produced by Vertigo Entertainment.

To celebrate some Warhammer news, I decided to make a pilgrimage to the very first place I bought Warhammer models over 30 years ago....the Little Shop, on my home island of Jersey!

My incredible team and I, alongside the brilliant minds at Games Workshop, have been working away in concept rooms, breaking down approaches to the enormity and magnificence of the Warhammer world. Together, we've been sifting through the plethora of incredible characters and poring over old tomes and texts. Our combined efforts have led us to a fantastic place to start our Universe, which has been agreed upon by those up on high at both Amazon and Games Workshop. That starting place shall, for now, remain a secret. Watch this space, though—more to come in time!

- Henry Cavill​

 

[TheSword]

Maybe I'm a child at heart, but I consider even today there are plenty of people and things that people are doing that are evil, let alone all the evil tgat happened in the 20th century.

Do you not just mean, really really bad? What is it about these things that make them evil.

 

[TheSword]

To kill some else in order to save your own life is absolutely an evil act. That’s even more true on a species level.

If you disagree on that, we have very different moral codes and we are never going to agree. I just hope the people making this show don’t agree, since it would toxify all 40 years of the WH40K hobby.

Killing someone to save yourself is evil?
So you don’t believe in the concept of self defence?
Most legal codes and moral systems in pretty much every culture on earth would disagree with you there.

 

[TaranTheWanderer]

That just isn’t true because you are using that term in a human being vs human conflict. We just haven’t seen real world threats significant enough to justify it yet.

If we take Genestealers for instance - a parasitic DNA that brainwashes people who are infected, corrupts their physical bodies and offspring, ultimately with the aim of creating guerilla terrorist organization to call a life ending plague of organisms to destroy entire planetary systems. In those circumstances genocide probably is justified against Genestealers.

we don’t need examples of aliens to show how humanity would eradicate a threat. We have already wiped out entire species of animals because of greed and an effort to house our population and are also on an ongoing war to completely wipe out the most crippling diseases in the world, despite overpopulation.

Not that I’m defending anything that would show the Imperium as the “good guys” in a fictional show. I’m just pointing out that humans, as a species, do and will continue to do anything to avoid extinction. As will any species.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

We have already wiped out entire species of animals

And humans.

It doesn’t make it okay.

As will any species

Humans are the only species that has the ability to choose otherwise.

 

[TheSword]

They’re definitely not good guys. Though I’m sure they fully use propaganda to make themselves seem that way. The Imperial Infantryman’s Uplifting Primer is a quite entertaining read. Lots of irony in there.

 

[TaranTheWanderer]

And humans.

It doesn’t make it okay.

Humans are the only species that has the ability to choose otherwise.

Human are choosing to overpopulate the planet and are choosing to vaccinate to eradicate disease. If that is evil, then there are lots of evil people on the planet. But I think we are digressing from the OP

 

[trappedslider]

Being evil is worse than being extinct. There is NO argument that justifies genocide.

 

[Sorcerers Apprentice]

To kill some else in order to save your own life is absolutely an evil act. That’s even more true on a species level.

What about killing someone else to save yourself and 50 thousand others? What if the person you killed would have perished along with everyone else if you had done nothing?

 

[TheSword]

What about killing someone else to save yourself and 50 thousand others? What if the person you killed would have perished along with everyone else if you had done nothing?

I’m sure this stuff was all hashed out by Jack Baur back in the early 00’s.

 

[Scribe]

Ultimately this is the concern with putting the setting out there to the people who would not go deep enough to see or understand that Imperium is not to be cheered for.

I still this that the Vaults of Terra trilogy would be one of the best ways to present 40K to new people.