Will there ever be a 40K cinematic universe and what would it take to make it an actually proper film series?

Will there ever be a 40K cinematic universe and what would it take to make it an actually proper film series?

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Games workshop are way too jewish to let their game in the hands of other jews at jewllywood or spend any decent amount of shekels to do a kino W40k on their own

Would be cool to have a Pulp fiction like W40k movie with small stories that recoup each other and everyone dies. Then you expend the cinematic universe with prequels about this first film's characters

>Pulp fiction W40K movie
>Samuel L. Jackson and John Travolta as Inquisitors on a holy mission
>"Describe what the Emperor looks like"

GW is incredibly protective of 40K and all of their other properties.

This.
Also they don't want to simplify things for normies.

How do I get into 40k?

Just start reading random wiki articles, when something catches your fancy just roll with it. If you like the setting you will soon be swallowed whole by it.

To be truly convey the grim darkness, madness and ridiculous scale the whole movie would have to be incredibly stylised. Think of Wayne England's artwork but in motion. See pic-related.

There's the prequel to 40K, the Event Horizon.

Tau, Necron and Chaos Space Marines here. Those were what I used back in the day.

Have a derail

Needs an animated webseries The Clone Wars style otherwise they'll never have the greenlight to get the grimdark madness on TV or in theaters

Gaunt's Ghosts could be made into a cool movie/ tv show

but I think most normies wouldn't like 40k

explain all the shit games that are coming out then?

space marine was the last good one and they cancelled the sequel for some mmo shit

I don't know about that, they hand video game licenses out to pretty much fucking anybody it seems.

>Also they don't want to simplify things for normies.

>Age of Sigmar
>allowing dow III

We need a motherfucking mechwarrior universe first

That would be a Battletech universe, son.

The shit games are the reason why a W40k movie would scare me more than anything.

Read the Eisenhorne trilogy by Dan Abnett- it was from the golden era of Black Library when books weren't just bolter porn rushed out by no-name authors to tie in with the latest release. It's also one of the few series to show what life in the Imperium is like off the battlefield (the Shia Calpurnia & Commissar Cain series are also good for this). After this, move onto the Gaunt's Ghosts series, also by Abnett - as close to Band of Brothers in 40k that you'll get. There's some other decent books - the Eldar & Dark Eldar series by Andy Chambers. This will basically give you all the lore you need for 40k and allow you to figure out what you're into.

There's also some decent games - DoW I & II and W40k: Space Marine. The recent Space Hulk release is pretty atmospheric but shit gameplace.

Fuck GW for ruining Black Library.

I stopped reading Abnett's books after the sequel to Ravenor. Did anything new happen in the Gaunt's Ghosts series?

Abnett's Aqua Man in DC Rebirth is also very good, incredibly good even. I haven't read Aqua Man at all but he's won me over with this run.

Assuming you replied to the wrong post. Abnett hasn't released anything 40k related in a looong time - he's all up in Marvel's shit now (he deserves the success). The last GG book was Salvation's Reach, released in Oct 11. He started the third trilogy in the Eisenhorne/Ravenor series, focused (kinda) on Bequin - Pariah came out in Oct 12. I think his last book was I Am Slaughter - the first book in the mediocre The Beast Arises series.

GW needs to pay him more jewbucks to get back to writing decent 40k. The only decent author left is ADB - everyone else is effectively writing shitty fanfic for £0.10 per 1000 words or someshit.

If it follows the lore properly it'd be too obscure for anyone to make.

If it doesn't it'd just be boring spezz muhreens shit.

>android 18
>puar

Oh fugg yes!

I hope not because the fanbase is full of annoying spergs.

>one of the best Sci-Fi universes
>fanbase is utter trash autistic screeching over space marines

>You'll never work out with 18 then have post-work out sex with her

>What?

>Nappa training me to defeat Oolong
Not bad.

I'm being trained by Nappa to defeat 17. It won't end well.

I'd like to see a Dark Heresey movie. Just a bunch of scrubs and an Inquisitor trying to take on some kind of planetary conspiracy involving a corrupt Governor and Inquisitor.

>tfw I live 2 miles from Warhammer World in Nottingham and spent every Saturday there for several years

Those were comfy times

>Smaug figure costs $500
>Have to assemble and paint it yourself

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>Buying anything based on those disastrous Hobbit movies

All they have to do is a 2 hour telling of the Horus heresy


Starting with Istavaan
From there space battle over terra
Wrap it up with the siege of the imperial palace and Horus dueling the emperor
Finish with the emperor being interred in the golden throne


Fade to black with Dorn saying "In the grim darkness of the future there is only war"
Done

40K is a terrible shit

>DUDE WAR
>DUDE FANTASY TROPES...IN SPAAAACE
>DUDE EBIN 4 DA EMPHERA! XDDD
>LMAO

How people can enjoy this shit?

Same could be said about Star Wars and Jedi's. It's just so intricately part of the lore you can't get around it. Also Space Marines rek Jedi's!

Holy Shit. They removed this awesome figure to replace it with the shitty Hobbit film version and are charging a fucking fortune.
It's sad but that sum up pretty much why I stopped the hobby.

Okay Sup Forums. There will most likely never be an good 40k movie. But do you even think it's possible? How do you go about it?

I would say keep it simple for the first movie (we franchise now).
>focus on a single peaceful imperial world
>make the main characters guardsmen, arbiters or something fairly relatable
>maybe even PDF troops who is as ignorant of the galaxy's situation as the audience
>chaos_is_at_work.jpg
>worldwide rebellion, but only in the form of "conventional" enemies as in corrupted PDF troopers
>shit goes down
>plenty of action not to different from the average action movie
>more unconventional enemies starts appearing
>maybe get a horror wipe going in the second act of the movie
>end movie with the actual IG showing up and beginning to purge the chaos threat
>maybe bring some marines/sisters/inquisitors along
>ready for anthology franchise

And the you slowly ramp it up with each movie.

>Space Marines rek Jedi's
Wel, obviously. 40k was designed to be as over-the-top as possible; and that's the beauty of it.

DUDE... I think you mistake joking about the "deep lore" for the main reason people play it.
It's a fun strategy game and you can get creative by painting and designing boards. That is why a movie franchise would never work, the fanbase isn't interested in movies having the tone you described.

He wrote a shit load of Warhammer stuff in 2015 nig nog

Gaunt's Ghosts is basically 40k Sharpe.

Yeah, beginning with PDF/IG would be good to establish relative power levels
Starting with Space Marines shooting shit up without context is still probably what would happen considering GW's boner for them

I would start right with Space Marines. The comic Damnation Crusade is a good example.
It's about a man getting recruited by Space Marines.
Show his training , indoctrination, a few battles. The climax is a big battle where he leads a group for the first time. In the end he'll die doing something heroic that ensures victory for his man. (Maybe put him in a Dreadnought in the after credit scene.)

Start the movie with a short exposition voice-over about the Emperor, then let the viewers learn about 40k through the atmosphere and main and side stories.

They most definitely will shoot their load first and shove in as many space marines as they can find, they will probably be the main characters.

Surely 4K is enough for everyone.

Personally I would absolutely hate a movie focused on spess muhreens. They are the worst part of the setting, when talking about the Imperium. But you are totally right that GW would have them be poster boys and upfront from the get go.
I think 40k in movies would work best we focused on smaller settings with somewhat relatable characters. Make a horror movie about a squad of catachan fighters fleeing from a brood of nids (kinda like alien yes). Make a gritty war movie about an imperial world under siege from the Tau. Make a comedy of about a homicidal band of orkz lead by a entertaining warboss. Make a movie about the imperial navy with focus on the battles in space. The important thing is to leave the extreme over the top parts out of most of a potential movie. It will never work well on screen.

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>Trained by Master Roshi to defeat Icarus
We Dragonball now.

If I had complete authority over every step in the creation process I would dip slowly into the lore.

I'd write a simple screenplay that focuses around the development on three normal human characters, most likely Imperial Guardsmen.

Small details about the world would be sprinkled in conversation but no Peter Jackson ten minute exposition at the beginning.

After characters are established introduce threat. In order to get a pg13 rating and make more shekels the enemy would either be Necrons or Tau since then there would be no gore in combat. (Necron weapons being changed to complete vaporization)

I'd include the Space Marines but they wouldn't be the main focus and would be more archetypal to distinguish them easier.

If the Space Marines are well received we could move on to movies just about them but the main focus for the first film should be normal humans so normies can learn the lore through them.

>comedy of about a homicidal band of orkz lead by a entertaining warboss
That would be amazing. We can only dream of a Deff Squadron movie.

>40K
>>>/reddit/

Thing is, you shouldn't go too small. If you just focus on a few Guardsmen defending a city, you lose the big scope.
It needs to be established from the get-go that "in the 41st millennium, there is only war."

Dubs checked.

But we'll have a scene of dialogue where some rookies are complaining about not getting any action and some old vet tells a story about the past exoits of his legion to deal with that

Kek.

>obscure
its 80s/90s geek, which is too "oldschool" for anyone to care.
like dune, its a mythos best left to niche followings

>learning the lore through guardsmen and not space marines
space marines have the most lore, and also as characters have access to the most lore in the setting, since they are tied directly to the emperor and the imperium itself. They also represent the "eternal war" concept of wh40k, since they are literally man-made warriors.

IMO the easiest movie to make would be battle for macragge

It needs to be a musical. Any other way is heresy.

Warhammer is seen as TOO nerdy to catch on with normies.

But they already did its called star ship troopers

i would kill for a anthology series about different races, battles and etc. t

>movie universe is announced
>everyone is hyped, pouring over every bit of casting news and production info
>movie comes out
>they missed the ball entirely because they tried to appeal to a wide audience, and they alienated the fans in return
>1st movie bombs, universe is cancelled

every fucking time

>Android 18 training me to defeat 16
Can I do it lads?

>Trainer - Turtle
>I'm fucked

>Opponent - Marron
>Phew

It would be better if movie was centred on a planet inhabited with humans/humanoids with similar to earth but not earth. They have just developed technology for basic space travel. Archaeologist have uncovered 20,000 year old relics they don't really understand. Eldar ship crashes on the world, no survivors. Holy shit aliens exist WTF... why did they come here. They realise they were trying to warn them. TOO LATE, Tyranids Hive ship incomming, planet isn't prepared for such a threat. Billions of people die. Protagonist and friends manage to escape using their space technology. Near end of movie Space marines show up, drop pods everywhere start of war with tyranids.

>tfw no Last Chancers miniseries
Loved that series as a teen

I think that ironically the "appeal to normies" is what ruins the appeal for normies.
Audiences are smart enough, just drop em in and they'll enjoy it plus you wont alienate your core audirnce with bullshit origin stories that everyone is sick of.

Hopefully not, I love 40k and modern (((hollywood))) just wouldn't get it.

>quips everywhere
>emperor/imperium portrayed as just bad rather than a necessary evil
>would probably have little gory violence
>as always the enemy would be probably orks or a khornate faction of chaos

Not to mention the amount of autists that so desperately want female space marines would probably increase.

Nah 40k is fine as is, not totally niche but not too easy for normies to get into either.

I think it would work better to start with guardsmen and make the space marine reveal/arrival a big deal during the film. You have the beleaguered ig fighting tooth and nail for survival against orks/nids/chaos whatever and then have the drop pods show up in an epic scene and the emperors chosen start wrecking shit. It would allow you to do justice to the marines without shoving them everywhere.

I would drop the "trying to warn them angle", the eldar doesn't care about the lesser races. Just make it a crash landing in desperation. Apart from that I could get behind the idea.

>tfw no high budget SoB porn parody

I would personally love to see The First Heretic on the screen
>lorgar kneeling
>going into the eye
>argel tal and crew getting killed and then eating the crew and drinking each other's blood
>Forgive me, brother
>I always hated you xaphen
>slaughter on istvaan five
>Death to the False Emperor
>curze fucking up corax and spitting on lorgar
this is the pinnacle of the horus heresy book line

that doesnt do justice to anyone or the setting.
imperial guard arent actually the underdog of the imperium. space marines have a lengthy lore that isnt simply "kick everyones ass".
who actually wants to see ww2 in space? is that what you think 40k is?

What's stupid is they are so protective of the brand yet are continually running it into the ground with retarded decisions.

They probably spend more time slapping hands away from their IP than actually working ON THE FUCKING IP

Don't they like have a new CEO now who isn't a total protective fucknut? Reason why you see more games being licensed and are starting up more books/comics.

>bubbles
>vegeta
>????
>profit

Their table top games are still shitting the bed in every regard, though

the ip is wasted on tabletop, their flagship games have never been good, although the models are high in quality.
Hobby modelling is nice and all, but its ridiculously niche

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>all dat PC power
>tired 14yo plot with edgy main character
>PS1 motion capture

>metal bawkes

chaos/inquisitor horror
have you seen Deliver us from evil or Constantine?
similar idea, the protag confronts the horror with help from supernatural agents, in a physical and spiritual battle

What about Horus Heresy books, user?