Just days after announcing he won’t be returning as Superman, Henry Cavill has announced he’s tackling the adaptation of the popular board game Warhammer 40,000.
Geek assumed in front of the eternal, Henry Cavill will act as executive producer in addition to being featured in the series which will be broadcast on Amazon Prime. “I’ve dreamed for 30 years of seeing the Warhammer universe come to life on screen,” the actor said on his Instagram account. Today, with 22 years of experience in this industry, I believe I finally have the tools and knowledge to drive the creation of the Warhammer Cinematic Universe. »
Cavill joins in the adventure with his wife Natalie Viscuso, vice president of Vertigo Entertainment, who recently produced the film Enola Holmes 2 — Cavill also plays there alongside Millie Bobby Brown, interpreter of the younger sister of Sherlock Holmes. “Associating with Vertigo is a blessing, because we might not have succeeded in finding the ideal broadcaster on Amazon, chained Henry Cavill. This gives us the freedom to be true to Warhammer’s massive reach. To all Warhammer lovers, I promise to respect this universe that we love so much. I promise to create something that will be familiar to you and I promise to develop something fantastic that has never been seen before.
“The first steps are now to find the team that will be in charge of directing, creating and scripting,” concluded the man who played Geralt de Riv in the first three seasons of the popular series. The Witcher — aside from a prologue set to launch on December 25, season 3 of the fantasy saga hits Netflix mid-next year, after which the title role will be taken over by Liam Hemsworth.
Warhammer 40,000 is a tabletop war game that mixes fantasy and science fiction in a dystopian world spanning a vast universe located at 41e millennium. Created by Games Workshop, it is the most popular miniature miniatures game in the world.