Henry Cavill Says ‘Warhammer 40,000’ Adaptation is Very Tricky and Complex: “The challenges that come with putting this on the page in a way that is doing justice to that complexity, that trickiness, (collider.com)

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[-] DrFistington@lemmy.world 28 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

How do we make a Warhammer movie that doesn't seem to celebrate racial supremacy or facism...

[-] iheartneopets@lemm.ee 17 points 2 weeks ago

I heard a good one-liner once about him: Henry Cavill is what happens when you give a neckbeard three wishes.

[-] NuraShiny@hexbear.net 11 points 3 weeks ago

Abut 99.9% of the difficulty is to make it in a way that won't appeal to weirdo racists.

[-] magnetosphere@fedia.io 8 points 2 weeks ago

I’m not even a fan of Warhammer, but I have major respect for Cavill because of his dedication to the source material. I also wish they had kept Event Horizon in the Warhammer universe, as I heard was originally intended.

[-] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

There's just so much to cover! Not just fifty billion factions, but why this kitchen sink grim dark setting came to be!

I live me my orks. Love a good waaaaaggghhhh

[-] LouNeko@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

They don't have to cover all of that. They can do what Arcane did for League of Legends. Don't go into the lore of everything, just pick a small fraction of it and make it excellent.

[-] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

I think the problem is Henry Cavill might want to go into everything!

[-] Honse@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

Good thing he's not writing it!

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 9 points 2 weeks ago

Plus Henry wants to paint all the characters himself.

[-] hedders@fedia.io 8 points 3 weeks ago

I really, really, really want this to be good. If it isn't, it won't be for lack of enthusiasm for the source material, I guess?

[-] TachyonTele@piefed.social 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I wonder if they'll start with the emperor's life way back in the past. Or throw us in the deep end with a haresy.

Im looking forward to the sets. The environments are insane in 40k.

[-] CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

They should start with a normal citizen or a guardsman. Then being saved by a space marine. But realizing that chaos is real. And then ending with them being executed for heresy.