Warhammer 40,000 To Become CGI Film

[Earnest Cavalli]

Warhammer 40,000 To Become CGI Film

Do you love weaponized chainsaws, nearly fanatical militarism and vaguely Roman class hierarchies? Then you're no doubt giddy that tabletop gaming mainstay Warhammer 40,000 is finally getting the movie treatment in the upcoming Ultramarines.

While I'm hoping for an extremely high-concept film about the trials and tribulations of tiny pewter figurines, the feature-length CGI film probably hews closer to typical action movie ideals, especially since the movie's official site [http://ultramarinesthemovie.com/news] describes it as a "70 minute sci-fi thriller."

Unfortunately, that's the most descriptive the site gets, but anyone who has played Warhammer 40,000 (or, for that matter, StarCraft) can probably guess that Ultramarines will include, in no particular order, tons of violence, latern-jawed, hypermasculine soldiers in oversized body armor, and legions of (most likely) unfriendly Orks.

No release info has yet been offered for the film. Actually, all we really know for sure is the title and that it is being produced as a joint project by Games Workshop and British film studio Codex Pictures (the same people behind the Lego Bionicle DVD movies). You can fill in all the other details with your own imagination, though I understand how hard that might be without the aid of a few hundred tiny metal figurines.

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[rossatdi]

The stench of death is on this one. I just don't trust GW's business sense. Still, I will heartily watch the mess when it arrives!

 

[Wilbot666]

All I want to know is this: Is it going to star Eisenhorn or at least Ravenor as the main character?

 

[oppp7]

No tyranids? Well, at least we get orks.

 

[John Funk]

Bah, 40k space marines are so boring.

 

[Kollega]

I have already said it,and will say it again.

Woo yay,a movie! All hail Wankhammer!

/sarcasm

Do you love weaponized chainsaws, nearly fanatical militarism and vaguely Roman class hierarchies?

Yes i do,but i dislike WH in particular.

 

[Adam]

CGI Spess mahrenes? FOR THE GLOORY OF THA EMPRAH!!! So on and so forth, im actually looking forward to this, fingers crossed it's gonna be good.

 

[j1nx]

this is going to be awful yet awesome

 

[irishdelinquent]

Say no to Orks! Tyranids all the way!

 

[Cpt_Oblivious]

Bah, 40k space marines are so boring.

Let's make an Inquisitor movie!

On Topic (ish): This could be good, but as I suspect will happen to the Warcraft movie, it'll suck horrendous amounts of suck.

 

[Joshimodo]

No Tyranids or Tau as enemies? I'll pass. Orks are awful.


The 40k universe needs as much care and attention to detail as Lord of the Rings, if not more.

 

[Simalacrum]

yaaaaaaaaaayyy! Lets just hope the people making it don't give it a royal f**k over.

I wander if the rule "good films make bad games and good games make bad films" applies to Warhammer 40k? Cause... technically, it is a game... but not a videogame so...

 

[Ranooth]

Bah, 40k space marines are so boring.

Find me any over space marines that are more interesting and i'll give you a cookie.

This is either gunna be good or so bad thats its good.

 

[GamerLuck]

Why cant the movie and games industry just leave each other alone already? They keep trying to get together but it only ends in dysfunction and rage... Like the stereotypical relationship of two highschool rednecks in a speck on the map town with very few other available people in it.

 

[John Funk]

Bah, 40k space marines are so boring.

Find me any over space marines that are more interesting and i'll give you a cookie.

This is either gunna be good or so bad thats its good.

StarCraft's.

WH40k Space Marines bore me to tears. They're so over-the-top with their eighteen livers and twelve hearts and yet the entire universe just presents itself RAWR SERIOUS GRIM DARK FOR THA EMBPREROAR. Everyone fights everywhere forever, and it's impossible to take them seriously. But it's more their ridiculous superhuman nature that makes it impossible to root for them as the underdogs, their blind fanatacism PURGE THE HERETIC FOR GLORY, and their utter stoicism. They're blatantly over-the-top in their attempts to be COOL and AWESOME and BADASS that it just becomes dull.

Meanwhile, the StarCraft space marines are rednecks and prisoners strapped into power armor. They're the underdogs; they're a lot easier to relate to, and they joke around. I can't ever imagine a 40k marine using a nuclear bomb cooler to store some beer (it'd probably be considered some form of heresy), can you? The SC marines are much more like 40k's Imperial Guard - who I like much more than 40k's Space Marines for the same reason. They're ordinary guys in way over their heads.

 

[theultimateend]

Bah, 40k space marines are so boring.

Find me any over space marines that are more interesting and i'll give you a cookie.

This is either gunna be good or so bad thats its good.

Imperial Guard (I will shoot you in the goddamn face if you don't go out there and get shot in the goddamn face!)
Tyranids (Turning entire planets into organic goo then stripping all of that to nothing but a stone core)
Orks (I mean come on now, shit works because they think it does?)
Eldar (Hey guys...I was thinking...what bad could come from ages and ages or orgies and other debauchery?)
Dark Eldar (Ohhh...that's what could happen)
Tau (I find them oddly satisfying, since according to the codex I read they give convert or die instead of convert and die regardless)

The above are in no particular order. Besides the fact that I love Imperial Guard .

Edit: I realize now what your question was, but as my personal opinion they are the least interesting of all the warhammer races.

Now once I've finished reading the warhammer novels I have I might change my mind on that but for now that's the case.

Meanwhile, the StarCraft space marines are rednecks and prisoners strapped into power armor. They're the underdogs; they're a lot easier to relate to, and they joke around. I can't ever imagine a 40k marine using a nuclear bomb cooler to store some beer (it'd probably be considered some form of heresy), can you? The SC marines are much more like 40k's Imperial Guard - who I like much more than 40k's Space Marines for the same reason. They're ordinary guys in way over their heads.

Oh hellz yeah. That's what I like to hear.

 

[scotth266]

Warhammer 40,000 To Become CGI Film

YAAAAAAY!

No release info has yet been offered for the film. Actually, all we really know for sure is the title and that it is being produced as a joint project by Games Workshop and British film studio Codex Pictures (the same people behind the Lego Bionicle DVD movies).

...Never mind. Anyone who was a fan of Bionicle, and saw the movies, will tell you that they are one of the worst canon-fuck-ups in the history of mankind. They literally ignored everything Bionicle had storyline-wise, and tried to make a cute children's movie.

It was awful.

 

[UltimatheChosen]

All I want to know is this: Is it going to star Eisenhorn or at least Ravenor as the main character?

It's Ultramarines, not Inquisitor.

 

[whyarecarrots]

Bah, 40k space marines are so boring.

Let's make an Inquisitor movie!

On Topic (ish): This could be good, but as I suspect will happen to the Warcraft movie, it'll suck horrendous amounts of suck.

Seconded. Unless they actually focus on one of the more interestingly ambiguous marine chapters (or even the Horus Heresy), I get the feeling that there will be nothing interesting about this film at all.

I agree with you in thinking that the Inquisition would make a great basis for a 40k film (and, incidentally, if the planets ever align and cause Bioware to get the license to make an Inquisitor RPG I will not be responsible for my actions), as would the Imperial Guard: dealing with the side of the Imperium that's more easily relatable to, less over the top, and less stupidly grimdark (so base it off anything Dan Abnett's written and it should be fine, from what I've heard of his Black Library books)