Henry Cavill Warhammer series may be dead, after Amazon presumably found out what Warhammer actually is

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what I heard is that amazon and games workshop got into a fight over dei. gw caved on allowing amazons to put female custodes in the show - which pissed off cavill and he bailed. games workshop on the other hand refused to allow female space marines which soured amazon. so everyone was unhappy and this never got that close to coming together.

It’s certainly possible since that fits with his behavior.

But I think they greenlit development without knowing exactly what Warhammer is. They probably thought it’s just like Star Wars.

I was curious about Warhammer myself so I went and watched the animations on the Warhammer plus app. It’s unfilmable. Nobody would like it. You could never make a broadly appealing show out of it without changing it dramatically and we all know how Cavill deals with those kinds of situations.

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[quote]According to sources, a mini-room was assembled to hone in on a creative direction for the Warhammer universe. Based on the material produced by the writers, a decision was made to proceed with the development of a TV series as the first project, sources said. No showrunner has been locked in yet, with a deal being hammered out.

Yet here we are..

It does not seem like such an awful place to be, r5.

[quote]The timing is not a coincidence. In its annual financial report filed in July, Games Workshop noted that the company and Amazon had until December 2024 to mutually agree on “creative guidelines for the films and television series to be developed by Amazon” for the streamer to retain the rights, originally acquired in December 2022 and extended for another 12 months a year later

Amazon optioned the series and extended the option after a year. After the second deadline approached they could either put it into development or let the option lapse and he could take the project elsewhere. They chose to put it into development.

I assumed the project was in development hell. It wasn’t even in DEVELOPMENT.

They have agreed to develop the series after two years of negotiations over the CREATIVE DIRECTION.

TWO YEARS. They spent two years negotiating a PITCH.

Perhaps more time *should* be spent negotiating creative direction, or you just end up with another The Witcher or Halo where the end product doesn't resemble the source material all that much.

The source material is not good for an American adaptation.

There’s a reason Warhammer struggled to break out of the UK: it’s about the British Empire. But instead of the Raj or the Scramble for Africa, they imagine themselves as space fascists.

Do you remember how all the Empire lackeys in Star Wars were British coded and most of the rebels were American coded? It’s basically Star Wars told from the Empire’s point of view. It won’t fly in the US.