@Triksy said:

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Henry Cavill To Star In & EP ‘Warhammer 40,000’ Film & TV Franchise As Amazon Studios Acquires Rights To Games Workshop Brand

Vertigo Entertainment’s Roy Lee and Natalie Viscuso (The Lego franchise) partnered with Cavill to secure the Warhammer 40,000 IP before taking it to Amazon Studios. Vertigo will executive produce with Cavill and GAW’s Andy Smillie and Max Bottrill alongside Amazon Studios.

This is not something that can be arranged overnight or even a few months. I think HC hinted at this on his IG on April 12, 2020. The pandemic would just started.

HC: Considering we are, both, going through the Easter period, and going through The Lockdown, I figured it a good time to put a silver lining onto the cloud that is some of the darker moments during this time. So I've decided to polish some old skills and try my hand at some new ones! It is a time of rebirth after all. So, as you can see here, the obvious might look a little bit like a tiny helmet...which it is. One of my almost life long hobbies, that I've been following but not actively doing, is this. A company called Games Workshop...or plastic crack as "we" call it. Genuinely can't get enough of the lore they have built over the decades. They have been some of my most enthused reads! If you were in denial about me being a geek before, you can't hide from it now. Also, in the background of this photo, there may just be some completely new skills I'm working on.....or there may not be, so all of your eye squinting and attempts at digital unfocusing will be in vain....orrrr maybe they won't.

TW S02 started shooting before the pandemic. I think HC wasn’t pleased with S02. According to the book geeks, 90% of S02 never happened in the books. So maybe HC started working on realizing his W40k dream? Hence, the rumors that he wanted to leave after S02?

RI: Back in Summer 2021, when The Witcher Season 2 was in post-production and Season 3 hadn’t been renewed yet, we heard from a source that recasting Geralt was a growing possibility at Netflix. The reason for that was that Henry Cavill was considering leaving the series after Season 2 because he and the producers “weren’t seeing eye to eye” regarding content and Geralt’s role in the The Witcher.
And indeed, our beliefs were solidified when Season 3 was officially confirmed in September 2021 and a little later, in November, a report from The Hollywood Reporter appeared saying Cavill had “just renewed” his contract and would be getting $1 Million per episode for Season 3 as opposed to $400K, his earlier The Witcher salary.

Now we understand why.

BoingBoing.net – NOV 24, 2022

Henry Cavill gets way too serious about Warhammer 40K during an interview

During a recent promotional interview about the new Enola Holmes 2, someone at Nerdist had the silly idea of asking actor Henry Cavill about Warhammer 40K. You can see the Superman and Sherlock Holmes actor's eyes light up at the opportunity to talk about what is clearly a game that he has spent a lot of time thinking about. He treats the question with great reverence, like it's almost life or death … and then you can watch in real-time as his excitement fades when the interviewer that they don't actually know anything about the game, someone else just told them to ask the question.

He then adorably tries to find the person who came up with the question, presumably so they can geek out about the game together.

This is apparently not the first time that Cavill has confessed to his love of the futuristic tabletop war game, either. Clearly he needs to star in or host his own Warhammer series now.

https://boingboing.net/2022/11/24/henry-cavill-gets-way-too-serious-about-warhammer-40k-during-an-interview.html

And he will.

Prime Video

Welcome, Henry Cavill. #Warhammer #Warhammer40K

Pic of HC geeking out with a miniature

HENRY CAVILL TO STAR IN AND EXECUTIVE PRODUCE THE ‘WARHAMMER 40,000’ FRANCHISE

So this is one way HC could look in W40k/WCU? I like it.

BossL > https://twitter.com/Bosslogic/status/1603755908974010368

@AnnaB said:

So this is one way HC could look in W40k/WCU? I like it.

BossL > https://twitter.com/Bosslogic/status/1603755908974010368

This article shows and describes ten W40k characters that HC could play. I like Lord Solar Macharius. He’s #3. He’s the imperium's greatest hero.

https://www.cbr.com/characters-henry-cavill-could-play-warhammer-40k-amazon/#the-emperor-would-be-the-community-39-s-pick

Two more pics of Lord Solar Macharius. His armor is just gorgeous.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ImaginaryWarhammer/comments/hem7ug/saint_solar_macharius/

https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Solar_Macharius

@Triksy said:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ImaginaryWarhammer/comments/hem7ug/saint_solar_macharius/

The armor is stunning and looks like it will be expensive. Amazon will be spending a lot of money on armors.

Wargamer.com

Star Wars artist creates Henry Cavill in Warhammer 40k

Film and games industry art director and concept artist Pablo Dominguez has used his skills to visualise what a Warhammer 40k Henry Cavill might look like, with a 3D sculpted, hand-painted Space Marine version of the movie star. Dominguez shared his power-armored reimagining of the celebrity Warhammer 40k fan via his Instagram on July 29.

Dominguez says he was inspired by the excitement of learning that “[the guy who plays] Superman is a huge fan of 40k”, and seeing Cavill’s posts about the planned Warhammer 40k TV series or film. He says he plans to make another version of the model as an Adeptus Custodes, Cavill’s favorite Warhammer 40k faction.

Dominguez first digitally sculpted the model using Zbrush. He says it was a challenge to create Space Marine armor that wasn’t “oversized” and “goofy”. He then made a physical version with his 3D printer. After that he used “regular” miniature painting tools to color the miniature; “brush, airbrush, sponge”. “The face definitely was the most difficult” part of the painting process, he adds.

Dominguez says his favorite part of 40k is “the lore behind the minis… the fact the Emperor’s been on the throne for 10,000 years, it’s quite a unique and cool idea”.

Dominguez has worked as a concept artist for nine years, seven of them as a professional in the film, television, and games industry. His credits include Jurassic World Dominion, Obi Wan Kenobi, The War of the Ring, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, and many more that you’ll find on his ArtStation and Instagram.

https://www.wargamer.com/warhammer-40k/herny-cavill-space-marine-concept-art

STARBURST MAGAZINE

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https://twitter.com/STARBURST_MAG/status/1712884291489693816

@Triksy](#64661bc2d1857200e5a2d686) said:

This article shows and describes ten W40k characters that HC could play.

Why is everybody wondering who HC will play? Warhammer made him into a playable character in the new Total War Warhammer 2. He’s the Loremaster Of Hoeth. Look at the pic in the article.

NME: Cavill appears in ‘The Warden and the Paunch’ as a Loremaster of Hoeth with the same name. The playable character has a “white wolf” trait that grants a +15 bonus vs large, as well as “advocate” which gives +3 untainted to the local province, according to screenshots from PCGamesN.

HC will be so delicious. Not a facial hair in sight and he’s going to be blue!!!!!

@Blue-Rose said:

HC will be so delicious. Not a facial hair in sight and he’s going to be blue!!!!!

HC is gorgeous, Blue. He's not edible.

Games Workshop blog post.

Warhammer Amazon Contracts Signed! The News Every Warhammer Fan Has Been Waiting For'

Back in December last year we announced Games Workshop and Amazon Studios had signed an agreement in principle to work together to bring the Warhammer 40,000 universe to screens, big and small.

Well, today we have an update, and it’s one we’ve all been longing to hear. We’ve now signed the full agreement and the next stage can begin!

Now comes the fun part: working out all the creative details with our partners and getting the first script written and into production. What Warhammer 40,000 stories should we tell first? Should we kick off with a movie or a TV show? Both?!

All we can tell you right now is that an elite band of screenwriters, each with their own particular passion for Warhammer, is being assembled to help bring the setting and characters you love to the screen. This illustrious group will be championed by Henry Cavill, who stands ready to take his place as executive producer – bringing his pen, sword and/or spear to the project.

TV and Film production is a mammoth undertaking. It’s not unusual for projects to take two to three years from this point before something arrives on screen. Still, things are now properly rolling, and you can bet we’ll bring you all the latest updates and cool snippets as soon as we’re able.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/12/18/warhammer-amazon-contracts-signed-the-news-every-warhammer-fan-has-been-waiting-for/

@Blue-Rose said:

Why is everybody wondering who HC will play? Warhammer made him into a playable character in the new Total War Warhammer 2. He’s the Loremaster Of Hoeth. Look at the pic in the article.

Isn't that from the computer game?

Wargamer

Amazon Warhammer deal signed, but work won’t start ’til 2025

Announced by Games Workshop as an investor update and on its Warhammer Community website early Monday morning, the ink is dry and the deal is done – Amazon will be making 40k TV and movies, just as planned in its December 2022 reveals.

And GW’s share price had a temporary 4% bounce this morning to celebrate, before settling again (below screenshot via Google finance at around 6.30am ET / 3.30amPT).

Per its investor update post, Games Workshop has sold Amazon “exclusive rights… in relation to films and television series set within the Warhammer 40,000 universe, together with an option for Amazon to license equivalent rights in the Warhammer Fantasy universe”.

As confirmed by WarCom, Henry Cavill will act as executive producer on the project – presumably giving him an E.P. credit on every movie or TV series made from the deal.

While there’s no details public about the possibilities for those future collaborations on the Warhammer Fantasy universes, it’s certainly a tantalising prospect for fans of Age of Sigmar and Warhammer The Old World.

With its customary euphemistic coyness, WarCom’s Monday morning article reminds us that “TV and Film production is a mammoth undertaking” and projects can take three years or more to complete, from the point of initial contract signing.

One detail behind that – which ought to please sticklers for Warhammer 40k lore, but anger those itching for a release date – is that the contract guarantees an entire year to nail down creative boundaries between GW and Amazon, before any productions are allowed to start work.

Per the investor post: “Games Workshop and Amazon will work together for a period of 12 months to agree creative guidelines for the films and television series to be developed by Amazon.

“The agreement will only proceed once the creative guidelines are mutually agreed between Games Workshop and Amazon.”

That long prologue should give GW a chance to ensure Amazon can’t take too many liberties with Warhammer 40k’s beloved grim, dark sci-fi universe, as well as allowing the creative forces behind these projects time to prepare.

On the other hand, it means the (potentially vast) revenues to come from these 40k TV series and movies won’t be realised for at least a year, even though GW reports income from its IP licensing ventures a year ahead; as the firm confirms in its Monday morning investor update, there’s “no change to its forecast for the 53 week period ending 2 June 2024”.

So we won’t be able to even try to puzzle out exactly how much Amazon has paid for these rights for a little while – but we can expect the ‘licensing’ line in GW financial reports to start climbing in the latter part of 2024 at the latest.

The firm paid UK staff a $3000 bonus in 2023 thanks to bumper profits despite weaker licensing revenues this year – GW employees must be cautiously excited to see what impact Cavill and his band of merry TV writers eventually has on the business.

https://www.wargamer.com/best-lego-christmas-sets-gifts

@Cashmere said:

HC is gorgeous, Blue. He's not edible.

Says who? He's gorgeous and therefore edible or lickable.

@AnnaB said:

Isn't that from the computer game?

I think so. Isn't it part of the Warhammer Fantasy Universe? All this geek stuff makes my head spin.

@Blue-Rose said:

I think so. Isn't it part of the Warhammer Fantasy Universe?

I don't think so. So I wouldn't wet my undies just yet, if I was you. The Warhammer Fantasy Universe seems to be a different thing.

“exclusive rights… in relation to films and television series set within the Warhammer 40,000 universe, together with an option for Amazon to license equivalent rights in the Warhammer Fantasy universe”

As confirmed by WarCom, Henry Cavill will act as executive producer on the project – presumably giving him an E.P. credit on every movie or TV series made from the deal.

@Blue-Rose said:

@AnnaB said:

Isn't that from the computer game?

I think so. Isn't it part of the Warhammer Fantasy Universe? All this geek stuff makes my head spin.

It's such a shame that HC will play only one character. I think the most important or most powerful character doesn't do much. I think he's attached to cables that feeds him?

WH40K

@Sue-Yin said:

“exclusive rights… in relation to films and television series set within the Warhammer 40,000 universe, together with an option for Amazon to license equivalent rights in the Warhammer Fantasy universe”

OK. But why the exec. prod. quote too?

@HCFan said:

It's such a shame that HC will play only one character. I think the most important or most powerful character doesn't do much. I think he's attached to cables that feeds him?

They should do some sort of multiverse, so HC can play three characters.

They can do, let's say, a vertical multi-time-verse. There's time-travel to past, now and future in one universe.

They can do, let's say, a horizontal multi-dimension-verse. There's dimension-travel among different universes existing at the same time.

In both types of verse, a universe consists of several worlds.

In both types of verse, there are two other variants of a person (so three), they all look similar, but they don't have the same name or job.

@Blue-Rose said:

I think so. Isn't it part of the Warhammer Fantasy Universe? All this geek stuff makes my head spin.

I don't remember the geeks mentioning it. They made a list of important character that HC can play. One that looks like a golden angel was popular.

Per the investor post: “Games Workshop and Amazon will work together for a period of 12 months to agree creative guidelines for the films and television series to be developed by Amazon.**

“The agreement will only proceed once the creative guidelines are mutually agreed between Games Workshop and Amazon.”

HC must be in geek heaven. lol

They should do some sort of multiverse, so HC can play three characters.

They can do, let's say, a vertical multi-time-verse. There's time-travel to past, now and future in one universe.

They can do, let's say, a horizontal multi-dimension-verse. There's dimension-travel among different universes existing at the same time.

In both types of verse, a universe consists of several worlds.

In both types of verse, there are two other variants of a person (so three), they all look similar, but they don't have the same name or job.

Did your head spin or hurt while writing all that geeky stuff? lol