DeepEnigma
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Can this man be anymore mancrush for us all?
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Massive 40K nerd Henry Cavill producing and starring in potential Warhammer 40,000 series on Amazon
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TaylorSwiftFan
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Fair enough. I only know mostly of their big ones like Wheels of Time and Rings of Power.
They did have that one tall belter in prison on earth in the first episode. Btw, if Bezos was such a fan, why did he cancel it?
Corpsepyre
Banned
Good for him! I don't know how in the world they're going to adapt and do justice to 40K, but all the best to Cavill!
FunkMiller
Gold Member
Let's face it, Cavill is kind of a limited actor. He can certainly do gruff and stoic, though. They'd probably drop Eisenhorn's frozen face though, and some of the rest of his augmetics, for budgetary reasons.
The show hit a natural end point, it was really a charity case from the get go as it never hit the wide spread public, and in what universe is a SIX SEASON show ending its run considered a bad thing?
I was a little unsatisfied with the show ending as they stuck to the books which leaves the larger "mystery" unresolved but with any luck we will get more of it later on. But just getting to book six was an achievement as book three was also a fairly natural ending point but Bezos helped the show push past that point as well.
FunkMiller
Gold Member
Whenever I see someone complain that Amazon Studios is completely woke, I just know they haven't watched Reacher.
Certainly for the lead and the fact the lady did the shower scene (that was a total surprise). Terminal List changed a few things but not absolutely NOT in a woke way either (though I don't see the Katie relationship playing out the same way in the show vs the books). Jack Ryan, well, its a decent show but NFC where it is going or what "source" it may be drawing from at this point other than IIRC his (future) wife was briefly shown in S1.
In general I have more confidence in Amazon to make stuff I like than Netflix. Though RoP was an ABSOLUTE catastrophe from frame 1 and WoT was a mess, albeit a mildly entertaining one.
TaylorSwiftFan
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You’re right I haven’t. Only RoP (most episodes), the first episode of WoT and Ring The Boys. And the first episode of that Utopia remake where they race swapped the main character.
Darkmakaimura
Can You Imagine What SureAI Is Going To Do With Garfield?
The Boys is good but it really seems like it was pushing politics, especially modern day BS in the last season and even in a second season to a degree.
Sonik
Member
poppabk
Cheeks Spread for Digital Only Future
Or the Boys or the Terminal List. Or tons of other shows that don't push the envelope either way.
Honestly, people are way to hung up on X company being woke, and prejudging stuff. I mean we get the vaguest hint that a show might one day happen and people are already complaining that it is too woke.
PaddyOCanager
Member
This is incredible. What a day. I have complete faith in Cavill, let's do this!
The Boys got over their TDS with S3 and got back to insulting every cunt. The problem with that show is it doesn't know where it is going so the primary conflict is getting repetitive.
ClanOfNone
Member
The cgi budget is gonna have to be nuts.
chromhound
Gold Member
Darkmakaimura
Can You Imagine What SureAI Is Going To Do With Garfield?
I wonder if this series will be canon or if it'll be something more like that Halo TV show where it's an alternate telling?
I know many of the video games are canon with the exception of Space Marine.
I know many of the video games are canon with the exception of Space Marine.
LoneWolf&Subs
Neo Member
This kind of stuff truly is a better fit for him. It’s clear he’s always been better at playing antihero than an actual hero.
FunkMiller
Gold Member
It'll be canon, I'd imagine. They've got a whole galaxy, and thousands of years to play with. No reason not to have to set in the wider continuity. For instance, they could easily have Cavill play Eisenhorn early on in his career as a fledgling inquisitor. The old bastard is hundreds of years old, so plenty of scope. Same goes for if Cavill wants to play a Primarch.
PaddyOCanager
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QSD
Member
I can't remember seeing Cavill smile during The Witcher. I mean I liked the series but Geralt is so grumpy I started referring to the series as The Bitcher in my head
PaddyOCanager
Member
Ok well it's hard to understand something if you don't even try........
There are hundreds of stories in this franchise that have nothing to do with space marines or orcs. There's something for everyone.
FunkMiller
Gold Member
Warhammer 40k comes from the same satirical place that spawned 2000ad and Judge Dredd. It embraces and celebrates how ridiculous the concept of space marines is. And the space marines are actually only one small part of the 40k universe anyway. They’re the iconic mascots, but it goes so much deeper and further. Far more lore than any other fictional universe. It’s idiotically gigantic.
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The plot for the TV show was god awful.
Darkmakaimura
Can You Imagine What SureAI Is Going To Do With Garfield?
It's more than that. Orks are just one faction btw.
There's a lot of side material and spin-offs. Necromunda for example, it's sort of like a Mad Max and cyberpunk setting that doesn't deal with Space Marines so much.
There's my personal favorite which is Rogue Trader. It's basically grim dark Star Trek where you play a diplomat or privateer that explores the Galaxy and deals with Xenos aka aliens. In fact Rogue Traders are one of the few factions in Warhammer 40,000 that can actually be friendly towards aliens and deal with them diplomatically. In fact, it's a standard role-playing game as opposed to a war game. They're actually finally making a video game based off of it which has me very excited.
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poppabk
Cheeks Spread for Digital Only Future
He's like a nerd who was given the keys to the kingdom.
I want to be superman
I want to be the Witcher
I want to be a space marine
NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt
Biggest Trails Stan
Yeah once that happens, I won't be interested anymore
Darkmakaimura
Can You Imagine What SureAI Is Going To Do With Garfield?
I would love if they got Karl Urban to star in this series. He's British and would make a good Rogue Trader or some other type of character in Warhammer 40,000. Plus he's good in almost every roll he's in.
FunkMiller
Gold Member
Urban has got some comedy chops, so he’d make a good Caiphas Cain.
Darkmakaimura
Can You Imagine What SureAI Is Going To Do With Garfield?
I was thinking, since there is definitely going to be a diversity quota, at least pick Edris Elbow. I like him in Prometheus and some other stuff I seen.
Maybe Wesley Snipes or Carl Weathers even though they're older. There's also Lance Reddick, but he would probably have to play some other kind of character other than a Space Marine being he's pretty skinny.
Maybe Wesley Snipes or Carl Weathers even though they're older. There's also Lance Reddick, but he would probably have to play some other kind of character other than a Space Marine being he's pretty skinny.
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Nobody_Important
“Aww, it’s so...average,” she said to him in a cold brick of passion
For what it's worth he made a good Geralt.
The problem is the writers butchering the source material.
Nobody_Important
“Aww, it’s so...average,” she said to him in a cold brick of passion
Him being Cain or Gaunt is the dream.
Ammogeddon
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Karl Urban is a New Zealander.
FunkMiller
Gold Member
Armour far too small. Where do all these pictures come from? Because they’re not Warhammer.
FunkMiller
Gold Member
Eisenhorn. Gaunt’s too one note, and Henry can’t do Cain’s glib humour.
Darkmakaimura
Can You Imagine What SureAI Is Going To Do With Garfield?
Well he does a good Brit and he plays one in The Boys....
Ballthyrm
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Yeah, it looks more like a showrunner issue than a producing one. The LOTR one looked like a train wreck from the beginning.
Here is a couple more good Amazon exclusive shows, Critical role / Lower Decks / The Peripheral / The Expanse / Fleabag / Undone
I think they can do a lot of it practically. There is plenty of cosplayer doing really good costumes already.
You can enhance from there with CGI.
FunkMiller
Gold Member
i think if they're going to try to recreate the speed that Space Marines are supposed to be able to move at, they're going to have to do it with CGI. The Astartes mini movie gets it about right. They are meant to be incredibly fast.
Ballthyrm
Member
Yeah, I was thinking about the talking and walking around part and the hero shots of them firing their guns.
They can make the power armors, the guns, the blood and guts practically.
I hope it's at least 30% as good as Astartes was because it was amazing.
I hope Cavill has seen it (more than probable) so he can push them to hire the guys who did that and they can aim for that.
They were hired by game workshop after the youtube videos so I'm very hopeful they will be involved in that project too.
NecrosaroIII
Ultimate DQ Fan
Is there a good primer for the setting? I get the basics: Humanity is fighting a losing war against supernatural shit and aliens. But is there anything better? The stuff I've seen online is kind of confusing
Ballthyrm
Member
Usually I start with a Tamiya Fine Surface Primer in light grey.
anthony2690
Member
And it didn't cost 25 million to remove a moustache either.Crazy what the AI can do these days...
Sonik
Member
Shut your mouth, heretic! Seriously though, it's a nightmare world where everyone is an asshole or just pure evil and humanity does or becomes anything it can to survive. That creates some unique stories and some badass situations. The lore is insane too and seriously fucked up (for example, in humanity's civil war trillions were genocided and the "good" side genocided just as many as the bad one iirc)
Fun fact about that I always enjoy telling, a couple of youtubers removed the mustache from Henry using CGI, you know, for free, and it looked leagues better than the movie. Hollywood is that incompetent
ClanOfNone
Member
I should watch that. If the cgi looks like the Darktide or Space Marine II intros I'll be very impressed. Those intros looked pretty badass, I wouldn't mind the whole show that way. But I imagine that would take a whole lotta time and a whole lotta money.
