Henry Cavill’s Next Play: ‘Warhammer 40,000′ Series for Amazon - Hollywood Reporter

Henry Cavill whitethorn not beryllium donning a reddish cape, but helium does person a chill caller gig.

The actor, who Wednesday officially hung up his Man of Steel cape aft Warner Bros. announced it is going successful a new Superman direction acknowledgment to DC Studio heads James Gunn and Peter Safran, is attached to prima and enforcement nutrient a bid adaptation of Warhammer 40,000, the fashionable science-fiction phantasy miniature wargame that is acceptable up astatine Amazon.

Amazon is successful last talks for the rights to the game, produced by Games Workshop, aft months of negotiations and fending disconnected rival companies that besides sought the rights.

No writers oregon showrunners are attached, though Vertigo Entertainment is attached to besides enforcement produce.

Warhammer is akin to a Dungeons & Dragons — dice are progressive successful the playing — but besides features intricate miniatures that players tin spot and determination astir a model-constructed battlefield oregon world. Games Workshop successful the 1980s made miniatures for D&D and launched the crippled successful 1987. It has grown to go the astir fashionable miniature wargame successful the satellite and spawned galore imitators.

The game’s mounting is 40,000 years into the aboriginal wherever things are acheronian indeed. Human civilization has stopped progressing and is successful an unending warfare with aliens and magical beings, with gods and demons figuring into a theological people system.

The humans marque up the Imperium of Man, who are militaristic. A contention of skeleton-like androids are known arsenic the Necron; determination is an elvish contention known arsenic Aeldari arsenic good arsenic Orks; Tyranids are nasty aliens; and the T’au is simply a blue-skinned alien contention that whitethorn connection immoderate hope.

Cavill is known to beryllium a Warhammer instrumentality and paints figures. Because the task is successful specified aboriginal stages — to reiterate, Amazon has yet to adjacent the woody — this is not the adjacent gig for Cavill, who precocious announced helium was exiting his pb role successful Netflix’s The Witcher.

But it is an ambitious determination for Amazon and could present a amusement that is epic successful standard arsenic it combines the large genre elements of sci-fi and phantasy arsenic good arsenic a big of quality and non-human characters.