Anyone who plays Warhammer 40K knows how much work goes into your army. The modeling, the filing, the painting, on and on and on. Then you send hours compiling your army list, carefully pack the Emperor’s superhuman servants in foam, take them down to the local game shop, and for what? To have them destroyed by heretics, foul xenos, and unsupervised kids. Such is the glory of tabletop gaming.
Codex Pictures, the same company that brought us LEGO BIONICLE, announced that they will be putting the Emperor’s finest into a 70-minute CGI thriller. The news came at UK Game Day to thousands of Games Workshop enthusiasts. Erik Mogensen, Licensing and Acquired Rights Manager for Games Workshop, stated, “We’re working closely with the talented team at Codex Pictures, who have an excellent understanding of the Warhammer 40,000 intellectual property and an inspired vision for the movie. We can’t wait to see our universe come to life on-screen.” The picture is titled Ultramarines. Check the link for latest news.
For the greater good!
Not everyone went to the game shop.
I remember entire basements devoted to Warhammer and Warhammer 40K.
No children or animals were allowed in these basements and woe to the child that snuck down. Spawn of Chaos would plague their lives with such hell afterwards rarely would one dare to return!
Vaporware.
There have been rumors, and stories, and announcements of 40K movies for at least as long as I’ve been playing (15 years?).
Games Workshop makes Disney look like open source pros. They even call it “intellectual property”. If it isn’t their idea, and they aren’t producing it, they want nothing to do with it.
I look foward to it. I dislike the game but enjoy the world and it’s story. If done well it will be a keeper!