Henry Cavill Says He's Enjoying the Challenge of Creating the Warhammer 40,000 Cinematic Universe: 'It Is a Tricky IP, and a Very Complex IP, and That's What I Love About It'

Henry Cavill has said he’s enjoying the situation of adapting what helium called the "tricky" and “very complex” Warhammer 40,000 tabletop game.

Superman histrion and Warhammer 40,000 superfan Henry Cavill is acceptable to prima successful and enforcement nutrient the Warhammer 40,000 franchise crossed each Amazon Studios productions aft Games Workshop and Amazon finalized their woody precocious past year.

Cavill's Warhammer 40,000 Cinematic Universe is shrouded successful mystery, and Games Workshop itself has cautioned fans not to expect to spot thing of it for immoderate time. But that has failed to forestall excitement astir the imaginable of yet seeing Warhammer 40,000 brought to beingness successful live-action signifier crossed films and TV shows — and with Cavill steering the ship, they’re assured it volition beryllium done right.

For Cavill himself, though, it is simply a daunting prospect. Not lone volition helium prima successful immoderate ends up being made, but helium is enforcement producer, which means helium is much progressive with, and liable for, the prime of the Warhammer 40,000 Cinematic Universe.

And past there’s the information that the Warhammer 40,000 IP, which is backed up by decades of often contradictory lore, is truthful immense that it tin sometimes consciousness bewildering to newcomers. Amazon and Cavill volition beryllium keenly alert that they request to marque their Warhammer 40,000 projects accessible portion pleasing the halfway fans who already person an encyclopedic cognition of the setting, which whitethorn beryllium a tricky balancing act.

Condensing the sheer scope of the IP into films and TV shows portion sticking to a tenable fund whitethorn besides beryllium a challenge. Warhammer 40,000 is simply a highly elaborate mounting with aggregate factions, thousands of years of warfare played retired connected a galactic scale, and, astatine the bosom of it all, tremendous Space Marines who often combat against adjacent bigger monsters. We’re talking abstraction battles that tin past hundreds of years, gargantuan onshore battles that tin devour full planets, and the Warp, a spot truthful unknowable that it tin beryllium beauteous overmuch thing you tin imagine.

Perhaps that’s wherefore Cavill, successful a caller interrogation with Esquire, touched connected the “complexity” and “trickiness” of adapting the Warhammer 40,000 IP. But, helium insisted, he’s loving the challenge, which for fans volition beryllium large to hear.

Bringing Warhammer to beingness "is a imagination travel true," Cavill said, "but it's antithetic from what I've done before, successful the consciousness I haven't had my manus connected the tiller of things before. It's fantastic doing that. It is simply a tricky IP, and a precise analyzable IP, and that's what I emotion astir it. The challenges that travel with putting this connected the leafage successful a mode that is doing justness to that complexity, that trickiness, and that nuance, is simply a situation I'm enjoying enormously."

When the Games Workshop / Amazon woody was announced, Cavill issued a connection connected Instagram saying he’d been “working distant successful conception rooms, breaking down approaches to the enormity and magnificence of the Warhammer world."

Henry Cavill is charged with creating the Warhammer 40,000 Cinematic Universe. Photo by Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images.

He added: "together, we've been sifting done the plethora of unthinkable characters and poring implicit aged tomes and texts. Our combined efforts person led america to a fantastic spot to commencement our Universe, which has been agreed upon by those up connected precocious astatine some Amazon and Games Workshop. That starting spot shall, for now, stay a secret. Watch this space, though — much to travel successful time!"

Who mightiness Cavill play crossed the Warhammer 40,000 Cinematic Universe? Talking to IGN successful 2021, Cavill expressed involvement successful playing 1 of the Primarchs oregon Captain-Generals, who are high-ranking cardinal characters from the Warhammer lore.

While we hold to find out, there’s ever Saber Interactive’s Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 to play, and Amazon’s Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 animation to ticker arsenic portion of the Secret Level anthology series.

Wesley is Director, News astatine IGN. Find him connected Twitter astatine @wyp100. You tin scope Wesley astatine [email protected] oregon confidentially astatine [email protected].