Live-Action Warhammer 40k TV Show in the Works

Warhammer 40,000 is getting a television adaptation from Frank Spotnitz, the creator of Amazon Prime’s Man in the High Castle. This will be the first live-action adaptation of Game Workshop’s popular tabletop game.

The Hollywood Reporter says the TV series will be called Eisenhorn and will adapt the Warhammer 40k spinoff novel of the same name. The novels center around Gregor Eisenhorn, an Inquisitor and leader of a band of investigators that wages a clandestine battle against demonic and alien forces that mankind is at war with.

Spotnitz will serve as showrunner and executive producer on Eisenhorn. He will work with Games Workshop to adapt the original Eisenhorn novels by Dan Abnett (Guardians of the Galaxy), who also wrote the 2010 CGI-animated movie, Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 movie.

The Warhammer 40k tabletop miniatures game has been around since 1987, and has since become one of the most popular tabletop miniature games in the world. The Warhammer 40k universe has spawned numerous comic book and video game adaptations, including the popular Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War games.

There’s no word on which network the Warhammer 40k Eisenhorn TV series will appear on, nor any news on casting.

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Sci-fi and fantasy TV shows are currently in high demand, especially after the end of Game of Thrones. Genre shows are popping up all over television on a variety of different networks. HBO is developing multiple Game of Thrones spinoffs, and Amazon paid $250 million just for the rights to develop a Lord of the Rings TV show for Amazon Prime.

As a classic and well-known sci-fi fantasy property, Warhammer 40k’s foray into television could also be in high demand as well.

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