Making TV is tough, and takes time. A lot of it, which is why since Warhammer makers Games Workshop and Amazon made it official late final 12 months that that they had agreed to a deal to make a brand new TV collection set within the Warhammer 40,000 universe (with the assistance of Warhammer uber-nerd and occasional actor Henry Cavill), we’ve not heard something since concerning the collection. However that may change within the coming months if a present goes to occur in any respect: as a result of there’s really a time stipulation on the deal.
At this time Video games Workshop launched its annual report for 2024 (through IGN), and supplied a short replace on its ongoing partnership with Amazon. Seems, no information is each good and doubtlessly dangerous information. Excellent news: the method continues to be ongoing, and if Amazon really makes a Warhammer 40,000, the present deal additionally may open up the streamer to the licensing rights for Video games Workshop’s fantasy properties, presumably both Age of Sigmar or its predecessor, Warhammer Fantasy Battles. The possibly dangerous information? Amazon and Video games Workshop don’t have a lot time left to truly agree on the present they wish to make earlier than their deal expires.
“Video games Workshop and Amazon are working collectively for a interval of 12 months, ending in December 2024, to agree artistic pointers for the movies and tv collection to be developed by Amazon,” a piece of the annual report associated to licensing offers reads partly. “The settlement will solely proceed if the artistic pointers are mutually agreed between Video games Workshop and Amazon. We’ll replace you accordingly.”
Mainly, issues are nonetheless occurring, however not sufficient to truly say {that a} particular new present is going on. And there’s 5 extra months for that to occur earlier than the deal dissolves and Video games Workshop can take its grimdark universe some place else.
It is a comparatively frequent factor in making TV—one thing Video games Workshop is already greater than aware of, contemplating it went by the same course of in 2019 with Spotnitz Productions. Again then, the corporate introduced it was creating a TV collection across the character of Gregor Eisenhorn, an Inquisitor within the Imperium of Man tasked with searching down corrupting alien influences in human society. However after the deal was first introduced, nothing ever got here of it—and presumably, that deal expired earlier than Video games Workshop entered discussions with Amazon in late 2022.
The identical may occur right here, and we simply hear nothing about Amazon’s plans for Warhammer, till a couple of years down the road Video games Workshop publicizes that the license has gone elsewhere. Or we hear {that a} present is going on earlier than the top of 2024, discover out what taste of Large Man In Energy Go well with Henry Cavill might possibly play, and look ahead to it to enter manufacturing! Both method, 40K‘s TV future will likely be identified by the top of 2024. Past that? Properly, within the grim darkish future, there’s solely battle… and licensing agreements.
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