Water Wet, Sky Blue, Henry Cavill Playing Space Marine 2

Actors! They’re conscionable similar us. Especially erstwhile they’re Henry Cavill, who, erstwhile he’s engaged not playing Superman oregon not playing Geralt of Rivia immoderate more, is present dedicating his escaped clip to possibly the slightest astonishing happening imaginable for Henry Cavill to beryllium doing: playing the new Warhammer game.

Perhaps we could’ve each conscionable silently accepted that determination retired determination Cavill, noted 40K fan, was astir apt successful each likelihood playing Saber Interactive’s caller shooter Space Marine 2, given, well, that he’s Henry Cavill and it conscionable seemed incredibly likely. But thankfully the histrion decided to corroborate that helium is so sinking a batch of clip into shooting and/or chainsword-ing Tyranids into piles of reddish goop.

“I couldn’t implicit the run connected Angel of Death by myself (or astatine slightest didn’t person patience to implicit by myself!) which I love!,” Cavill said successful a caller station to his Instagram, aft antecedently describing Space Marine 2 arsenic “the mutt’s” (put it connected the backmost of the box). Attached was an representation of Cavill’s PC moniter—note the tastefully displayed transcript of the 2nd Horus Heresy supplement rulebook, Massacre, which Cavill’s headphones remainder connected to the side, conscionable for an added touch—as helium prepared to load into a circular of multiplayer. Cavill smartly edited to regenerate his username simply with “Nope,” truthful you’ll ne'er cognize if you conscionable truthful hap to beryllium purging the heretic, oregon being the heretic getting purged, alongside Hollywood’s biggest Warhammer nerd. Take it arsenic a motion to beryllium bully to all of your squad mates, adjacent successful the grim acheronian of the acold future, due to the fact that you ne'er cognize which 1 of them mightiness beryllium Henry Cavill.

It’s possibly clip champion spent, considering that we cognize Cavill is, successful immoderate capacity, inactive attached to Games Workshop and Amazon’s plans for a Warhammer 40K TV series. Although the 2 company’s woody implicit the Warhammer licence is acceptable to expire by the extremity of 2024 if a originative absorption connected the bid isn’t successful spot by then, the caller announcement that the 2 teamed up to enactment connected an occurrence of Prime Video’s caller gaming anthology bid Secret Level for a Space Marine 2 communicative seems to bespeak that each is good successful Amazon and GW’s imaginativeness of Warhammer-dom. So I conjecture this conscionable counts arsenic probe and prep work, arsenic if idiosyncratic similar Cavill really inactive needs to bash that astatine this point.

In the meantime, we are simply near to wonder: does Henry Cavill person thing to accidental about Space Marine 2 and Warhammer‘s ineffective commentary connected the franchise’s satirical intents connected portraying a fascist empire successful decline, oregon is helium conscionable benignant of miffed that you can’t play as the Adeptus Custodes successful multiplayer?

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