I kid, I kid! [No, he does not.] Hush, you.
The popular game franchise from Games Workshop, Warhammer 40,000, is being developed as a TV series thanks to Frank Spotnitz, the creator of Amazon’s The Man In The High Castle. The series will be based on theEisenhorn novel trilogy series, which is a sci-fi and fantasy story set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, where mankind teeters on the brink of annihilation.
I mean, come on. Chronicle of Riddick‘s Necromongers were a blatant ripoff of Warhammer 40K and I don’t even play the game! Which is immaterial to the larger point, which is that if you do play this game you get to now enjoy the terror and horror that occurs when somebody tries to translate a favorite intellectual gaming property into audio-visual form. It’s apparently virtually impossible to do correctly, and damned if I know why*. Hollywood often manages it for books. But gaming movies are typically cursed; you gotta wonder whether gaming TV shows are, too.
…Crud. Now I’m worried about the Secret World Legends TV project.
Moe Lane
*Witcher maybe doesn’t count because they went back to the original books themselves. I say ‘maybe’ because we haven’t actually seen the finished product yet.
And Event Horizon was the Warhammer 40K movie.
(or so says everyone I’ve spoken to who’s familiar with both)
Well, Eisenhorn trilogy is as good as any place to do an adaptation. There is plenty of material Dan Abnett wrote in the three Inquisitor trilogy to go on.