The Clock’s Ticking on Amazon’s Warhammer 40K Show

Making TV is hard, and takes time. A lot of it, which is wherefore since Warhammer makers Games Workshop and Amazon made it authoritative precocious past twelvemonth that they had agreed to a woody to marque a caller TV bid acceptable successful the Warhammer 40,000 beingness (with the assistance of Warhammer uber-nerd and occasional histrion Henry Cavill), we’ve not heard thing since astir the series. But that mightiness alteration successful the coming months if a amusement is going to hap astatine all: due to the fact that there’s really a clip stipulation connected the deal.

Today Games Workshop released its annual study for 2024 (via IGN), and offered a little update connected its ongoing concern with Amazon. Turns out, nary quality is some bully and potentially atrocious news. Good news: the process is inactive ongoing, and if Amazon really makes a Warhammer 40,000, the existent woody besides could unfastened up the streamer to the licensing rights for Games Workshop’s phantasy properties, presumably either Age of Sigmar or its predecessor, Warhammer Fantasy Battles. The perchance atrocious news? Amazon and Games Workshop don’t person overmuch clip near to really hold connected the amusement they privation to marque earlier their woody expires.

“Games Workshop and Amazon are moving unneurotic for a play of 12 months, ending successful December 2024, to hold originative guidelines for the films and tv bid to beryllium developed by Amazon,” a conception of the yearly study related to licensing deals reads successful part. “The statement volition lone proceed if the originative guidelines are mutually agreed betwixt Games Workshop and Amazon. We volition update you accordingly.”

Basically, things are inactive happening, but not capable to really accidental that a circumstantial caller amusement is happening. And there’s 5 much months for that to hap earlier the woody dissolves and Games Workshop tin instrumentality its grimdark beingness determination else.

This is simply a comparatively communal happening successful making TV—something Games Workshop is already much than acquainted with, considering it went done a akin process in 2019 with Spotnitz Productions. Back then, the institution announced it was processing a TV bid astir the character of Gregor Eisenhorn, an Inquisitor successful the Imperium of Man tasked with hunting down corrupting alien influences successful quality society. But aft the woody was archetypal announced, thing ever came of it—and presumably, that woody expired earlier Games Workshop entered discussions with Amazon successful precocious 2022.

The aforesaid could hap here, and we conscionable perceive thing astir Amazon’s plans for Warhammer, until a fewer years down the enactment Games Workshop announces that the licence has gone elsewhere. Or we perceive that a amusement is happening earlier the extremity of 2024, find retired what spirit of Giant Man In Power Suit Henry Cavill mightiness perchance play, and hold for it to participate production! Either way, 40K‘s TV aboriginal volition beryllium known by the extremity of 2024. Beyond that? Well, successful the grim acheronian future, determination is lone war… and licensing agreements.

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