Henry Cavill has, for the past few years, been ramping up to work on a Warhammer 40k series with Amazon after departing his role as The Witcher's Geralt in the Netflix series. A move which caused no end of upset, given his enduring love for the source material—and, let's be honest, pretty solid Doug Cockle impression.
It took a minute but, late last year, Games Workshop and Amazon officially worked everything out to set Cavill to work in earnest. And, per a recent interview with Esquire, Cavill is pleased as punch about the fact he's in the producer's chair this time around.
If you clicked the link above, you might be wondering: 'Harvey, why is this interview about watches?' Which is sort of the point, really. The article centres around Cavill's newfound love of watchmaking—specifically, it claims, when he took a trip to the Swiss Alps with his brother.
Cavill, moreover, seems pleased as punch to be in the producer's chair this time around, describing it as a "dream come true, but it's different from what I've done before, in the sense I haven't had my hand on the tiller of things … It is a tricky IP, and a very complex IP, and that's what I love about it. The challenges that come with putting this on the page in a way that is doing justice to that complexity, that trickiness, and that nuance, is a challenge I'm enjoying enormously."
Whether that hints at a little bit of drama behind-the-scenes—or just the typical creative conversations you need to have while making an adaptation—is slightly more complicated, and I shan't throw more conjecture at it. I will, however, hazard a guess that Cavill's enough of a Warhammer 40k buff to be utterly delighted by being in the Emperor's—sorry, I mean director's—chair.
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