After spending most of 2024 hashing out a deal before it could collapse, Games Workshop, Amazon, and occasional actor Henry Cavill have taken a big power-armored step forward in bringing Warhammer to TV and film.
Although it was first revealed back in 2022, it’s taken until now for Amazon and Games Workshop (and their mutual bestie, Henry Cavill) to agree on how to make a Warhammer 40K project. Now, they just have to start writing the damn thing.
Earlier today Games Workshop confirmed that, following discussions that have taken the best part of the last year–with a deadline set to expire in just a few weeks at the end of 2024–it has come to an agreement with Amazon over the rights to its grimdark sci-fi tabletop universe.
“Further to its announcement on 18 December 2023, Games Workshop is pleased to announce that it has now agreed creative guidelines and reached a final agreement with Amazon Content Services LLC, a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., (“Amazon”) for the adaption of Games Workshop’s Warhammer 40,000 universe into films and television series, together with associated merchandising rights,” a statement released this morning to investors reads in part. The deal, as previously revealed, not only gives Amazon the rights to adapt Warhammer 40K, but, after the release of at least one production using those rights, the option to license an equivalent license for Warhammer Fantasy (presumably either Games Workshop’s classic fantastical setting, Warhammer Fantasy Battles, or its contemporary re-imagining, Age of Sigmar).
