Just a few hours after he was fired from the Superman role he’s been playing for nearly a decade, Henry Cavill got a new project. The Man Of Steel star is now reportedly set to star in and executive produces a new series for Amazon based on the miniature wargame Warhammer 40000, as reported by The Hollywood Reporter.
Amazon is reportedly in final talks to obtain rights to the game from Games Workshop after months of negotiations and fending off rivals competing for the rights. The project will not be the next up for Cavill, with Amazon still yet to close the deal, though it’s said to be an incredibly ambitious project for the streaming service.
The game’s inception charts back to 1982, when Rick Priestley joined Citadel Miniatures, a subsidiary of Games Workshop. Priestley was tasked with developing a miniature wargame to be given away for free, which would encourage fans to buy more miniature figures. The game – entitled Warhammer Fantasy Battle – was released in 1983, and was considered a big hit with customers.
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Priestley took elements from another game he was developing called Rogue Trader and created Warhammer 40000, billed as a spin-off of Warhammer Fantasy Battle, released in 1987. For the unversed, the game is set 40000 years in the future where human civilization has stopped evolving amid a never-ending war with an alien species and demons, with magical beings thrown in the mix as well.
Cavill is said to be a big fan of Warhammer 40000, even hand-painting miniature figures himself. The Witcher star will next be seen on the big screen in director Matthew Vaughn’s spy thriller Argylle, starring alongside Catherine O’Hara, Sam Rockwell, Bryce Dallas Howard, Sam Rockwell, Bryan Cranston and Samuel L. Jackson. Cavill is also attached to star in the remake of HIghlander for John Wick by director Chad Stahelski.