{"id":35280,"date":"2022-12-17T06:03:06","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T06:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/17\/warhammer-40000-henry-cavill-to-star-and-ep-franchise-based-on-fantasy-miniature-war-game-for-amazon\/"},"modified":"2022-12-17T06:03:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T06:03:06","slug":"warhammer-40000-henry-cavill-to-star-and-ep-franchise-based-on-fantasy-miniature-war-game-for-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/17\/warhammer-40000-henry-cavill-to-star-and-ep-franchise-based-on-fantasy-miniature-war-game-for-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"Warhammer 40,000 &#8211; Henry Cavill to Star and EP Franchise Based on Fantasy Miniature War Game for Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\nAMAZON STUDIOS SECURES FIRST-OF-ITS-KIND RIGHTS TO WARHAMMER 40,000, WITH HENRY CAVILL SET TO STAR AND EXECUTIVE PRODUCE GLOBAL FRANCHISE<\/p>\n<p>Project produced by Amazon Studios consists of rights to a universe of Warhammer programming throughout a number of Amazon leisure companies\n <\/p>\n<p>CULVER CITY, California\u2014December 16, 2022\u2014Amazon Studios at the moment introduced that it has secured international rights to Warhammer  40,000, primarily based on the immensely fashionable mental property from Games Workshop (GAW) that has given rise to an immersive international passion \u2013 Warhammer. The settlement encompasses rights to the universe throughout sequence, movie, and extra, and can sit alongside GAW\u2019s actions as they proceed to make the perfect miniatures on the planet. This is the primary deal of its form for Amazon Studios for IP of this scale, and it permits the corporate to make the most of the title throughout its leisure companies. Henry Cavill (Man of Steel, Mission: Impossible \u2013 Fallout) is about to star in and govt produce the Warhammer 40,000 franchise throughout all Amazon Studios productions.\n <\/p>\n<p>Since launching almost 40 years in the past, the Warhammer universe has been consistently increasing by GAW\u2019s miniatures, sourcebooks, tabletop video games, animations, novels, a wealth of licensed materials, and video video games.\n <\/p>\n<p>Warhammer 40,000 is about within the far future, the place humanity stands on the fringe of what is perhaps its brightest future, or its darkest age. The threats to humankind\u2019s empire are many \u2014 traitors pushed by the fires of ambition, alien empires sworn to reclaim the celebrities, and the corruption of actuality by malevolent gods.\n <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWarhammer 40,000 has captured the imagination of fans of all ages, from all walks of life, and all over the world,\u201d mentioned Jennifer Salke, head of Amazon and MGM Studios. \u201cWe are excited to work with Henry, Vertigo Entertainment, and Games Workshop across our Amazon entertainment businesses on this brilliant, immersive franchise for our global customers to experience for years to come.\u201d\n <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have loved Warhammer since I was a boy, making this moment truly special for me. The opportunity to shepherd this cinematic universe from its inception is quite the honour and the responsibility,\u201d mentioned Henry Cavill. \u201cI couldn\u2019t be more grateful for all the hard work put in by Vertigo, Amazon and Games Workshop to make this happen. One step closer to making a nigh-on lifelong dream come true.\u201d\n <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s great news and we\u2019re absolutely thrilled; we\u2019re working with a fantastic triumvirate in Henry, Vertigo, and Amazon. Henry\u2019s well-known love of Warhammer 40,000\u2014and his passion as a world-builder and storyteller\u2014will serve us all well in the coming years. Finally, Warhammer will make it to the screen as the fans have hoped, and as they deserve. Exciting times!\u201d mentioned Andy Smillie, artistic director of GAW.\n <\/p>\n<p>Vertigo Entertainment\u2019s Roy Lee and Natalie Viscuso (Barbarian, The Lego franchise, the It movies, The Departed) partnered with Henry Cavill early on to safe the coveted IP and ship it to Amazon Studios. Vertigo will govt produce with Cavill and GAW\u2019s Andy Smillie and Max Bottrill alongside Amazon Studios.\n <\/p>\n<p>Henry Cavill\u2019s quite a few tasks on the horizon embody Matthew Vaughn\u2019s globe-trotting spy thriller Argylle, the extremely anticipated reboot of Highlander, Guy Ritchie\u2019s The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, and Season Three of The Witcher. He is represented by WME.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] AMAZON STUDIOS SECURES FIRST-OF-ITS-KIND RIGHTS TO WARHAMMER 40,000, WITH HENRY CAVILL SET TO STAR AND EXECUTIVE PRODUCE GLOBAL FRANCHISE Project produced by Amazon Studios consists of rights to a universe of Warhammer programming throughout a number of Amazon leisure companies CULVER CITY, California\u2014December 16, 2022\u2014Amazon Studios at the moment introduced that it has secured [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-35280","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}