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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Willie the Duck" data-source="post: 9536563" data-attributes="member: 6799660"><note: rearranging two quotes by same person to put like concepts together.>Both Cavill and Snyder have attracted bizarre followings of alt-right /'anti-woke' nerdom fans that seem to think they will be their saviors, represent them, or somehow prove something in their favor. Snyder enjoyed Ayn Rand a bit much and missed the anti-objectivist points of Moore's Watchmen, and Cavill... uh, is a square-jawed hetero-white guy; and that's about it for the justification.I think it could work if he's a nuanced marine of some kind. One that would rather be a farmer but this is his life, or one conflicted about what they are doing, or maybe just sees the cracks in the foundation of the empire he loves, something like that. From Saving Private Ryan to Band of Brothers to heck <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bridge_on_the_River_Kwai" target="_blank">the greatest film ever made</a>, there have been amazing acting performances as soldiers -- but it's almost always 'a soldier who ______' and that _____ always opens the door to what kind of performance it is.Even though WH40K isn't my particularly IP of interest, I'm super-curious about this simply because I want to know what strategy they take. Is it going to be a new story in the backdrop of the established setting, or trying to do a greatest hits of the existing fandom's favorite moments in history? Are they going to have a primary faction to focus on or try to jump about GoT-style? Much like the D&D movies, while there are existing stories to use, there's so much more to the property to explore (and likely many things more accessible to people new to the IP). What they decide to do is likely as interesting to me as the actual product will be.I think the boys club, in universe, could pretty easily just be ignored ('All the major factions are smart enough not to refuse half of all potential recruits.'). The fandom, yeah, if my FLGSs are any indication it hasn't had the same non-male influx that comics and TTRPGs and so on have gotten since I was young.</blockquote>

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