Television WARHAMMER 40,000 Live-Action Series (In Development at Amazon, post #157)

[Protectandserve]

But for primarchs, Cavil would be an absolute badass choice for The Lion.

 

[davidlemonparty]

you shouldn't be worried that amazon will fuck it up...

you should be worried that they don't. and you have 1-2 seasons of something awesome that then just goes kaput as amazon cancels it (the tick, jean-claude van johnson, etc)

Better to have loved then lost than never to have loved at all

 

[GeraltOfRivia]

Hearing that he’ll be the EP gives me great hope.

 

[Rob Battisti]

Been thinking about this the last few days. Success and hype will greatly depend on who the showrunner will be. After reading more about Cavill, him being EP is more important than him being an actor for this shows success.

 

[mixmastermo]

The biggest issue is that you need a budget of a trillion dollars to do this justice

 

[j123]

since Cavill is a fan, AND a producer, he probably negotiated a pretty wide range of responsibility for himself, which means control of the narrative. in this case, it's a good thing.

Yep, he'll keep it as close to the lore as possible.

They could go with an infinite number of plot settings. I hope they don't screw this up. Could be extremely epic if they were true to the source material.

Like @Cole train said, outside of just astartes there's alot of potential. Hive city life, rogue traders, guard, tyranids like aliens type plot, etc are all good ideas to work with.

I guess the star wars route on media in recent is something that can work: less focus on Jedi / special OP'd beings and more on regular people dealing with their own affairs.

Like everyone here, I also hope they really don't screw this up, esp. since this is something that will introduce non-40k fans to the universe, and if its lame or lackluster, it'll just steer everyone away completely .

 

[Thrawn33]

More I think of it..also agree that I don't want Astardes as main characters.

Inquisitors or Commisars please

 

[GearSolidMetal]

I've never played Warhammer 40K, or read any of the books, or played any of the videogames.

But this is basically what I've heard -

Its like Starcraft, except there's like 10 factions instead of 3, each faction has histories & lore as thick as the Game of Thrones book series, they're always at war with eachother, and there's no 'good guys.'

So am I close or way off?

 

[Thrawn33]

I've never played Warhammer 40K, or read any of the books, or played any of the videogames.

But this is basically what I've heard -

Its like Starcraft, except there's like 10 factions instead of 3, each faction has histories & lore as thick as the Game of Thrones book series, they're always at war with eachother, and there's no 'good guys.'

So am I close or way off?

Also never played, but got in to the lore.

There's a fuck ton of it...

A shit ton of factions..

Emperor protects...

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!!!!

Total Grim Dark nobody ever really wins..

 

[GearSolidMetal]

Also never played, but got in to the lore.

There's a fuck ton of it...

A shit ton of factions..

Emperor protects...

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!!!!

Total Grim Dark nobody ever really wins..

So I'm basically right?

 

[NoSmilez]

I've never played Warhammer 40K, or read any of the books, or played any of the videogames.

But this is basically what I've heard -

Its like Starcraft, except there's like 10 factions instead of 3, each faction has histories & lore as thick as the Game of Thrones book series, they're always at war with eachother, and there's no 'good guys.'

So am I close or way off?

You are close enough. I just know the Horus Heresy which is like 30k. It's like Berserk's main golden age arcs in terms of starting everything. 40k is when all those races are in a stalemate.

There is too much lore. There is no real good/evil. For example, you have Orks and they aren't really evil or good. They just want to fight everything. This video only sets up the timeline but not everything that happens

 

[GearSolidMetal]

You are close enough. I just know the Horus Heresy which is like 30k. It's like Berserk's main golden age arcs in terms of starting everything. 40k is when all those races are in a stalemate.

There is too much lore. There is no real good/evil. For example, you have Orks and they aren't really evil or good. They just want to fight everything. This video only sets up the timeline but not everything that happens

Its going to be extremely complicated for the Amazon series to map out what its an adaptation of, and what is still cannon and isn't contradicted in the 'expanded universe.'

 

[Blayt7hh]

I don't see them being able to do Space Marines as the protagonists because the CGI needed but they can do an Inquisitor murdering fools in an underhive with some Adepta Sororitas back up.

Give me them genocidal space nuns

Space marines are also just less interesting as the focus of a serious drama. in the fluff, a squad of them can wipe out thousands of normal enemies. Would probably look cool on screen though if done well

 

[NoSmilez]

Its going to be extremely complicated for the Amazon series to map out what its an adaptation of, and what is still cannon and isn't contradicted in the 'expanded universe.'

I think they have two choices. They can go into the 40k timeline and just do a character's story within one of those subfactions. Within the timeline are many mini stories. Imperium of man has more than a dozen subfactions. The other path is probably do 30k to show the ascension of the emperor of mankind on the golden throne. It's sort of like how Dune story ends up but less confusing.

 

[Blayt7hh]

you shouldn't be worried that amazon will fuck it up...

you should be worried that they don't. and you have 1-2 seasons of something awesome that then just goes kaput as amazon cancels it (the tick, jean-claude van johnson, etc)

Ugh, the Tick getting cancelled was a massive disappointment. That show was amazing

I've never played Warhammer 40K, or read any of the books, or played any of the videogames.

But this is basically what I've heard -

Its like Starcraft, except there's like 10 factions instead of 3, each faction has histories & lore as thick as the Game of Thrones book series, they're always at war with eachother, and there's no 'good guys.'

So am I close or way off?

That’s all true but that is barely scratching the surface. It’s not to really like StarCraft either where the factions are completely engaged with each other in an all out war. A lot of 40k is happening in a decentralized manner across a basically infinite universe.

There’s also Chaos

 

[Cole train]

I've never played Warhammer 40K, or read any of the books, or played any of the videogames.

But this is basically what I've heard -

Its like Starcraft, except there's like 10 factions instead of 3, each faction has histories & lore as thick as the Game of Thrones book series, they're always at war with eachother, and there's no 'good guys.'

So am I close or way off?

Its dune on steroids and meth imo

Imagine hulk hogan whos fighting satan while wearing 20 trucks worth of armor.Also they fighting in cathedral thats the size of rhode island and is also in space
(Quote stolen from youtube)

Dont worry about lore, at some point it just clicks and you get it. I posted good vid in this thread to get introduction, i was like wtf at start myself lol

 

[horc00]

I know nothing about Warhammer as well except that it's an epic fantasy genre show with goddam orcs and elves and badass armor and other epic shit.

100% stoked.

 

[Deleted member 110072]

I've never played Warhammer 40K, or read any of the books, or played any of the videogames.

But this is basically what I've heard -

Its like Starcraft, except there's like 10 factions instead of 3, each faction has histories & lore as thick as the Game of Thrones book series, they're always at war with eachother, and there's no 'good guys.'

So am I close or way off?

Starcraft was originally going to be a 40K game I believe but Games Workshop backed out of it so they changed it slightly and released it themselves, Warcraft as well is essentially a ripoff of GW's(now defunct) fantasy setting although of course that itself is very Tolkien inspired.

Ultimately it is a setting that developed for a table top war game and that tends to be its very epic in scale and back in the day especially I think a big part of it was that it was actually quite impersonal, the Imperial of Man is basically a vast theocratic bureaucracy run amok beyond anyone's ability to control, think Terry Gilliams Brazil for example which came out just as he was just starting to be deveolped.

 

[Law Talkin’ Guy]

I think an intro like this for the show would be great:

 

[Fox by the Sea]