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Looks like we're getting a Warhammer 40K show with asperations for a full cinematic universe, with Henry Cavill staring and an executive producer. Sounds like he'll have control/input into the overall creative direction, assuming that it's successful enough to warrant spin offs and connected titles.
While I never got into 40K much, the fact that Cavill is a huge lifelong fan and will be guiding it makes me interested. I hope it's successful enough that they can get to Warhammer Fantasy as well - which I enjoyed the RPG of quite a bit.
I mean I liked the computer games...
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I suspect they'll dust off the scripts for an Eisenhorn TV show that the Man in the High Castle team were working on back in 2019. That never really went anywhere, but apparently Amazon was one of the studios they were talking to (which makes sense, as they made High Castle).
Eisenhorn is a also a very logical first step for an adaptation. It has Inquisitors, Chaos Cults, daemons, some brief Space Marine appearances and even a Titan parade, but it mostly focuses on human characters investigating other humans in the Imperium. You get a good look at everyday life in the Imperium at the ground level, and a relatively small scale whilst introducing some of the gonzoid-crazier elements in a measured way. You also have the flexibility of just adapting the original trilogy or bringing in the Ravenor and Bequin sequel trilogies to make it a more epic story. It's doable in live action in a way that, say, going straight to the Horus Heresy is not.
Something like Gaunt's Ghosts may be workable, but that has a huge problem in the third book, Necropolis, which is insane in size and scale. It's like the Battle of Stalingrad on hyper-steroids. Most of the rest of the books are easily adaptable but that one has individual scenes which would cost more than all of Rings of Power in its entirety (I'm thinking of the Hell Engines smashing into the walls of Vervunhive, disgorging Chaos forces by the tens of thousands, whilst artillery, tanks and aircraft are engaged furiously around them).
Ciphias Caine:HERO OF THE IMPERIUM!
Ciphias Caine:HERO OF THE IMPERIUM!
Ciaphas Caine is excellent, but it's also the metafictional mickey-take of the setting. It'd be like making Spaceballs, Mystery Men, or Galaxy Quest and showing it to someone who's never seen Star Trek, Alien or Star Wars, or any superhero movie ever. It can work and be entertaining, but you lose a lot from not having the pre-existing context.
I think you do Ciaphas Cain around the 5th-6th project in the setting so people get what it's satirising, not the 1st. It would be very entertaining though.
I agree that Eisenhorn is probably the best choice, it could even continue with Ravenor and Bequin.
Gaunt's Ghosts you'd need to cut some massive battles, and the first book is not that good for an introduction.
My second choice would be the return of Gorillaman as Cavill cause his shock of what the Imperium turned into could also be an intro, tough that story would probably be very expensive.
He'd make a good Horus.