Henry Cavill’s New Dream Gig Might Be a Warhammer 40K Series at Amazon

Henry Cavill’s definitely had an up-and-down-and-up-and-oh-my-god few months, however the former Superman and about-to-be-former Witcher star is perhaps about to land one other dream function: the lead in a collection adaptation of the world of Warhammer 40,000.

The Hollywood Reporter has phrase that Amazon is closing in on a deal to amass the rights to Games Workshop’s massively widespread sci-fi wargame, and whereas no writers or showrunners are connected, Cavill is purportedly already on board to star and govt produce the collection.

Warhammer 40,000, which began in 1987, is about within the far way forward for the forty first millennium, in a galaxy torn aside by perpetual warfare. The Imperium of Man—a theological autocracy dominated by the decaying physique of a millennia-old God-Emperor and defended by the genetically enhanced, power-armor-laden chapters of the Space Marines—attempts to safeguard its worlds and peoples in opposition to a bunch of alien and demonic threats, from the corrupted forces of Chaos, to the mech-piloting hegemony of the Tau Empire, to the swarming hordes of the Tyranid hives. It’s a world that spawned the time period “grimdark” for its love of excessive extra in gore, motion, and the quantity of spikes you’ll be able to match onto somebody’s shoulders.

Cavill has made it recognized many a time that he’s an avowed fan of the setting and the tabletop sport itself, portray his personal military of Adeptus Custodes—the golden-plated private guards of the Imperium’s Emperor. This can be not the primary time we’ve heard of plans for a Warhammer 40,000 TV present, both: Games Workshop itself beforehand introduced it was planning on creating a collection across the Imperial Inquisitor Gregor Eisenhorn, a personality from the corporate’s “Black Library” fiction vary who hunts down alien and demonic threats in opposition to the Imperium, however that is presumably a distinct concept within the works.

We’ll carry you extra on Amazon, and Henry Cavill’s, plans for Warhammer 40,000 as and after we be taught them.

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