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 yr 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.
In the present day Video games Workshop launched its annual report for 2024 (by way of IGN), and supplied a short replace on its ongoing partnership with Amazon. Seems, no information is each good and probably dangerous information. Excellent news: the method remains 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 really agree on the present they need 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 inventive tips for the movies and tv collection to be developed by Amazon,” a piece of the annual report associated to licensing offers reads partially. “The settlement will solely proceed if the inventive tips are mutually agreed between Video games Workshop and Amazon. We’ll replace you accordingly.”
Principally, issues are nonetheless taking place, however not sufficient to really say {that a} particular new present is occurring. 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 widespread factor in making TV—one thing Video games Workshop is already greater than conversant in, contemplating it went by means of an identical course of in 2019 with Spotnitz Productions. Again then, the corporate introduced it was growing a TV collection across the character of Gregor Eisenhorn, an Inquisitor within the Imperium of Man tasked with looking 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 just a few years down the road Video games Workshop declares that the license has gone elsewhere. Or we hear {that a} present is occurring earlier than the top of 2024, discover out what taste of Large Man In Energy Go well with Henry Cavill might possibly play, and watch for it to enter manufacturing! Both means, 40K‘s TV future will probably be recognized by the top of 2024. Past that? Properly, within the grim darkish future, there may be solely warfare… and licensing agreements.
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