Amazon signed an “agreement in principle” with Games Workshop, the agency behind the favored fantasy tabletop recreation Warhammer, to develop TV and movies based mostly on the British firm’s mental property.
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Amazon will produce movie and tv sequence based mostly on franchises from Games Workshop, the corporate behind the favored Warhammer tabletop recreation.
Games Workshop stated in an announcement Friday that it has reached an “agreement in principle” with Amazon relating to movie and TV variations of its mental property.
The rights will initially be granted for the Warhammer 40,000 universe. The two firms didn’t disclose the monetary phrases of the deal.
Shares of London-listed Games Workshop surged by 15% on Friday.
Amazon’s Warhammer deal highlights the U.S. tech big’s bid to problem Netflix and different streaming providers. It comes after Amazon launched its blockbuster TV sequence The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, based mostly on the fantasy novels of J.R.R. Tolkein. The sequence debut attracted greater than 25 million viewers globally.
The two events have agreed on business phrases, however Games Workshop stated the challenge was nonetheless topic to contract negotiations.
Games Workshop stated an extra announcement shall be made at an unspecified date.
Amazon stated that the Man of Steel actor Henry Cavill will star and govt produce Warhammer 40,000.
The firm described Warhammer 40,000 as “set in the far future, where humanity stands at the edge of what might be its brightest future, or its darkest age. The threats to humankind’s empire are many — traitors driven by the fires of ambition, alien empires sworn to reclaim the stars, and the corruption of reality by malevolent gods.”