Henry Cavill to Star in and Produce 'Warhammer 40,000' TV Series for Amazon
Henry Cavill to Star in and Produce 'Warhammer 40,000' TV Series for Amazon
Two years after acquiring global rights to 'Warhammer 40,000', Amazon MGM Studios has launched the development of a TV series based on the popular game.
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Ugh had to be Amazon.
Better than Netflix. Or what Apple did to Foundation.
Amazon has a pretty good track record: Good Omens, Expanse, Tales from the Loop, The Boys, Fallout.
While I agree about Foundation, I really don't know how anyone would properly adapt the book(s) and make something enjoyable to watch. The book is an important piece of sci-fi and inspired a lot of writers, but it really has aged like milk: it doesn't even have a named female character until 3/4 of the way through the book, and even then it can't pass the Bechtel test.
Fans said Dune couldn't be done. Time skip is easy given the popularity of anthologies.
Gender swapping a character to modernize it is done all the time too.
Amazon did Fallout and it turned out good. Not like how The Witcher was treated at Netflix...
I'm not commenting on the quality I expect, just the company involved. I actively go out of my way to avoid Amazon as much as possible, so I will not be seeing this.
While I agree with the sentiment:
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Torrents
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Shows like It's always Sunny in Philadelphia, and Orville are owned by Fox which feeds profit to Murdoch to support Fox News. That's far worse.
Yes, exactly this.
I don't feel ok supporting Amazon or Fox.
And ofc rich things gonna have nice things (nice budget = at least nice looking results), but at the sauce it's just really really dirty money being fatter.
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It's not like Warhammer has a lot of high quality source material to adapt.
There's like over a hundred novels to choose from, some of them are pretty decent.
My guess is he's going to do Gaunt's Ghost by Dan Abnett. It's good enough to be a stand alone series even if you don't know much about the 40k universe.