Warhammer (TV show being produced for Amazon)

Whack-a-Mole
Tue, 10 Feb 2026 08:26:04 +0000
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The actor Henry Cavill (perhaps best known in his roles playing Superman in the movies) is a super-nerd and happy to admit it. He was a driving force in getting the Netflix series “The Witcher” made where he played the lead character. After a few years he left the show over disputes about the accuracy to the source material. Cavill very much wanted the streaming series to be as faithful as possible to the source but the directors wanted to make it something else and Cavill left (replaced by Liam Hemsworth in the role).

Cavill’s next passion project is a live action series based on the Warhammer 40k universe (a game he enjoys playing). For those not familiar Warhammer 40k describes itself as “grimdark”…a bleak future where humanity is perpetually at war with various entities and on a galactic scale (that is the very short version).

I have long wanted such a series to be made but never trusted Hollywood to be faithful re-creating that universe. They almost always want to water it down (looking at you first Judge Dredd…second was much better but still not quite there), make it tepid, put some love-story in there or teen angst plot lines or personal drama among recruits and so on.

Warhammer is much more focused because it is the nature of that universe.

So, I am glad to see that Cavill, having learned some lessons from losing control over The Witcher, is working very hard to be sure this Warhammer is true to that universe. Often to details most would not notice (but fans of the games might). It gives me hope and I think, if he pulls off the grimdark, this could be a very successful show.

Henry Cavill Is Fighting Hard to Keep Amazon From Wrecking His Long-Awaited Sci-Fi Action Series

According to CNews, Henry Cavill has been working tirelessly to get the scripts right for the Warhammer 40k series and has reportedly undertaken what has been described as “lore audits,” for which he personally reviewed “more than 300 individual lines of dialogue, terminology, and world-building detail.” So passionate about the series is Cavill that he is keeping an eye on everything from the scripts to the costumes, “verifying Space Marine chapter armor color schemes, cross-checking Imperial iconography, and ensuring the correct pronunciation of notoriously dense High Gothic terms like Adeptus Astartes.” Ultimately, the actor is doing everything he can to ensure that “nothing slips through.”

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