Henry Cavill to Lead ‘Warhammer’ Series

It’s been a tough couple of months for Henry Cavill, career-wise. At the tip of October, the announcement got here that he was stepping away from Netflix’s ‘The Witcher’, with Liam Hemsworth taking up enjoying the lead position, Geralt of Rivia (Cavill will nonetheless be seen because the character within the upcoming third season subsequent yr).

At the time it was thought that the choice was right down to him deciding to focus as an alternative on his huge display screen profession, since simply earlier than the ‘Witcher’ news broke, he’d taken to social media to verify his return as Superman within the DC films, with––spoiler alert––a cameo ultimately credit of ‘Black Adam’. As it seems, newer reviews counsel that he’d turn out to be more and more dissatisfied with the inventive route of ‘The Witcher’ and made the selection to maneuver on.

Still, he had Superman ready, proper? Wrong! The different shoe dropped simply this week when new DC Studios co-chief James Gunn used his personal twitter feed to announce that the film universe can be going ahead with a brand new film he wrote… One that received’t star Cavill.

So, what’s the actor to do? Fortunately, he can fall again on one thing that has lengthy been a ardour: ‘Warhammer 40,000’.

Amazon has secured the rights to the sport, produced by Games Workshop, after months of negotiations and warding off rival corporations, aiming to make each TV for its Prime Video service, and films. It seems that Cavill is aboard to star in and produce the preliminary sequence alongside Vertigo Entertainment.

“I 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,” stated Cavill. “I couldn’t be more grateful for all the hard work put in by Vertigo, Amazon Studios and Games Workshop to make this happen. One step closer to making a nigh on lifelong dream come true.”

If you’re taking a look at ‘Warhammer’ and saying “Whathammer?”, permit us to supply a navy briefing. The ‘Dungeons & Dragons’-style sci-fi cube recreation is ready 40,000 years into the longer term the place the state of affairs is darkish and dire.

Human civilization has stopped progressing and is in an endless warfare with aliens and magical beings, with gods and demons figuring right into a theological class system.

The people make up the Imperium of Man, who’re militaristic. A race of skeleton-like androids are referred to as the Necron; there’s an elvish race referred to as Aeldari in addition to Orks; Tyranids are nasty aliens; and the T’au is a blue-skinned alien race which will supply some hope. So now .

‘Warhammer’, which first launched in 1987, is a type of video games that has influenced numerous different initiatives and faces potential criticism that it’s like all of its cinematic and TV progeny.

But at the very least it means Cavill has a brand new gig, and one he completely might be dedicated to.