Why is Hollywood so afraid of adapting WARHAMMER 40K?

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  1. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    It’s too autistic. Also kind of gay.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      >kind of gay
      Elaborate??

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        You remember that time when the Leman Russ said "it's Russin time" and started Russing all over his battle brothers? Yeah, it was kind of gay. There is definitely something homoerotic about 8 foot tall, tanned, muscular men walking naked into battle covered in oil.

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        It's a total sausage fest. I'm gay and don't mind, but I can see how women/normies could be turned off by 90-100% of human characters being macho men supersoldiers if the story is about space marines (and it will be about space marines).

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      are gay autists not profitable?

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      you just summed up every movie after 2013

  2. 4 months ago
    Anοnymous

    >WH40K lore is just a shitty copy/paste job of all popular sci-fi
    >modern hacks decide to "take inspiration" from WH40K instead of actually experiencing the original (and better) works those ideas came from

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      name one

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Alien
        >Hellraiser
        >A Canticle for Liebowitz
        >Dune
        >Star Wars
        >Judge Dredd
        >Terminator
        ...
        >Starcraft

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          Holy bait

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            Entire Imperium is just Dune ripoff. Aliens are just taken from WFB.

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          >A Canticle for Liebowitz
          Kino

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          >dune
          >ripping off older scifi
          Anon I......

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        Alien (Tyranids), Starship Troopers (Imperium/Tyranids), Hellraiser (Drukhari) Gundam Wing (Tau)

        Oh sorry, you asked me to name one. Mad Max. (Orks)

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          >dr*khari
          rope yourself, troon. It's Dark Eldar.

  3. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Isn't Henry Cavill doing an adaptation for Netflix?

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      it's going at a snail pace, we don't even know what the frick is he gonna adapt. I remember before this annoncment they talked about doing Eisenhorn but they are silent about that now

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        They’re doing womenandBlack folkhorn now

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          >the demonhost is a woman moment now

          These twats gave me hope with nexus by using the Salamanders and the sister of battles properly

  4. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    theres literally no story to warhammer

    its a role playing game

    nothing more

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      it's over the top and stylistic and would be hard to translate on screen

      isn't there like a million books
      you don't have to adapt the "main" storyline, you can create smaller scale storylines from all sorts of parts of the universe

      something the disney people could have done with star wars

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        main story first would kill any interest. They should do an inquisition show it's perfect to introduce the main things and problems

  5. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Lately the entire franchise has been diluted into a bunch of candy-colored almost-gacha games.
    All the grimdark has been filtered away so normies can enjoy this without getting too spooked.

    The old artwork looked gothic and even gigeresque, with some patina and miasma of grit and filth permeating everything, but all of that is gone now and it just looks like some generic slop.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      don't forget trannies infecting the thing and saying "hurr durr it's political"

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Theres been a general de-uglification of 40k as far back as 3rd edition (1998). GW got rid of breasts on daemons etc in the early 2000s. The more mainstream 40k gets the more diluted it becomes.

      contrary to Cinemaphile obsessions "woke" isn't much of a problem in 40k, at least as of yet. You have shoehorned blacks in artwork and that's really it.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      It's in the writing too. Books and games. 40k was a post-apocalyptic setting where rag-tag warbands of lunatics fought over 'relics' of a time when shit worked. Marines and inquisitors depicted with intentionally cartoonish, distorted and ugly proportions decking themselves out in all these gaudy militaristic honors and purity seals due to superstition and a lowbrow gangland mindset. Satire to the extreme.
      Now space marines are tactical geniuses with picatinny rails on their brand new practical rifle-sized bolters heroically fighting 'the dying of the light' or whatever. It's fricking gay.

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        Same problem comics has, fans of the work are now the ones writing the work and making the art. Since they don't know what it was first based on (or straight up stolen from) they don't see the satire or the homage.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Worse, GW wanted to turn it into MCU.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Some of the new blood in the GW art department is worth their salt.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Video game wise it's been like that for decades you moron

      GW will who're out their IP for pennies as long as they don't make a video game that competes in any way with the tabletop

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      This. 40k is incredibly boring and generic now, the franchise is spiritually dead

  6. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    The 'story' is just an excuse to sell toys to manchildren.
    There really isnt much drama or crisis to explore.

  7. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    The most heroic faction is full religious fascists, the best faction is entirely composed of males because they breed by spreading spores and before anyone mentions the Tau they're fricking homo.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      >sisters of battle finally on the big screen, instead of one like in Nexus Pariah it's a horde of Mariah Carrey

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      it would always be the imperium PoV
      they would likely have to introduce it through the lens of some sympathetic human character within the imperium
      as I say a smaller scale storyline to introduce the universe to the wider audience

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Based Ork enjoyers. They truly live the dream.
      >can do whatever the frick they want as long as it's fighting (which they love doing)
      >free society ruled by the most worthy, aka the guy who has the biggest shoota
      >based morons whose technology works on the basis that they believe it does
      How can any other faction even compete?

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        But that's wrong? Everyone knows the one with the biggest krumpa rules.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      it would always be the imperium PoV
      they would likely have to introduce it through the lens of some sympathetic human character within the imperium
      as I say a smaller scale storyline to introduce the universe to the wider audience

      Even the most modern generic 40k books are always Imperial POV and don't bvother trying to villify the Imperium.

      Even the 2023 diversity shit has Imperial Humans praising the Emperor and stomping on comedically evil and unsympathetic aliens/cultists/monsters/whatever.

      I can't see the Cavill series doing anything different. GW isn't interested in changing the narrative of 40k because Imperial factions make so much money for them (80% of sales)

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        Literally Eddie Murphy

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        I don't think the Imperium is a problem, I like me some Spess Marines at times but religious fascists is somewhat a hard sell to hollywood. Plus the whole problem even with Cavill involved will be tone related. Watching a few hours of the imperium praising the emperor is lore accurate but might get old quickly, on the other hand without the overbearing religious bullshit how much will it feel like the imperium? Tricky.

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          this is an AI post but it the protagonist or PoV doesn't have to a zealot, they could have the protagonist be some nobody from some shithole world working their way up or something happening to them etc., or someone established but obviously not a true believer in their excesses, just pays lip service as its how things go, etc.

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            >this is an AI post but it the protagonist or PoV doesn't have to a zealot, they could have the protagonist be some nobody from some shithole world working their way up or something happening to them etc., or someone established but obviously not a true believer in their excesses, just pays lip service as its how things go, etc.
            AI is heresy anon.

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          Starship troopers was a massive hit despite being a deliberately over-the-top parody of militarism. (P.S. Militarism and fascism aren't the same thing dumbass. Fascism is a socialist ideology).

          People love seeing aliens get their head stomped in by patriots.

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        >A Dawn of Fire novel
        that's what they are doing

        story aside it is no chance this will look good on screen right? seems way to expensive too make a tv show of

        Yes

  8. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Hollywood has problems with even adaptations of simple classic fantasy or fantastic stories, anon.
    WH40k has way too specific vibe and aesthetic, that maynot fit the broad audience tastes.
    Producers not giving a shit about the source material are also the problem.
    I wish best luck to Cavill, and hope he will be able to start the tv/kino medium of WH40k strong.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Producers not giving a shit
      Just burn all of that old frickers for glory of God-Emperor and hired new. Simple as frick.

  9. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    It's a depressing setting devoid of hope, where even the good guys are full of evil. It's not what we need these days.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Its not really devoid of hope or depressing.
      Its predictable as all hell, and ultimately, optimistic with no mysteries what so ever.
      Any setting with idea of afterlife is optimistic by default.

  10. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    warhammer the movie synopsis:

    we have to expand OUR empire

    they are THREATENING our empire

    we must take over THEIR empire

  11. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Americans distrust Catholics.

  12. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Why would you want current Hollywood to adapt your favourite franchise? They'll just find a way to completely ruin it, just wait for the official version of Astartes to kickstart a new revolution in animation, powered by AI eventually.

  13. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Can't wait for the amazon show where the main characters will be a woman and a black guy.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Like Pariah Nexus already has? You are late.

  14. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    I really hate these threads that open with a rhetorical question

  15. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >burn the heretic
    >kill the mutant
    >purge the unclean
    and thats coming from the good guys, its anti-modern hollywood

  16. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    No one to root for and chuds will ape out if they see a non-white space marine who is not a White Scar or Salamander.
    Or if a Battle Sister waifu is bkack.

  17. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Production costs

  18. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    story aside it is no chance this will look good on screen right? seems way to expensive too make a tv show of

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Probably will look like the warcraft movie

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Yeah, you need to cgi so much to get the scale and tech that you could basically already keep it animated.
      Just motion capture the actors faces.

  19. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    It's actually gw since they could loose control of their ip - that's why they crack down on fan-made content and give rights for making vidya only to the b-tier companies

  20. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Imagine how much it would cost to adapt something like this image into a 90 minute movie.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      ?

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        What was this supposed to prove?

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          All that shit is done with crowd sims, it is the less expensive part.

  21. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    its built on a foundation of racism, sexism, and theft of IP belonging to much bigger companies
    the optics are all wrong, imagine if the old star wars movies had mammies and blackface disney never would have touched it

  22. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    How badly do you want it to happen? Enough for the immigrant, nazi, capitalism, and feminist agendas to be injected? Do you really want Clint Eastwood as a mechanicus preist barely holding onto a sliver of his humanity regaining it somehow by teaming up with some benevolent slaneesh trannies and guiding an innocent tyranid brood through the imperium underbelly to show the light to the empress heircarnate?

  23. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    why would you want a hollywood adaptation of 40k?
    >full gay space marine chapter
    >probably follows the story of same lesbian guardsman wanting to get married to some random dyke
    >emperor is the only person that doesnt get changed because hes technically not able bodied and thus sufficienctly diverse

  24. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    What's to adapt? There's no story, no characters. Just endless "lore" piled on "lore", places and names and fictional battles for autists to memorise. Normal people aren't interested in this.

  25. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Warhammer 40k is a gay icon and hollywood is full of homophobes

  26. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    warhammer is fricking gay except Orks, conversely, who are cool as hell

  27. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    No female space marines.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      warhammer is fricking gay except Orks, conversely, who are cool as hell

      It's a total sausage fest. I'm gay and don't mind, but I can see how women/normies could be turned off by 90-100% of human characters being macho men supersoldiers if the story is about space marines (and it will be about space marines).

      Muh empowered females!!!
      Oh you have male role models doing male activities? What are you, GAY?
      Stupid fricking zoomers

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Isnt that why the sisters of battle were made?

  28. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    What is there to adapt? The tabletop game, lol? It's boring af. The books? Only the Eisenhorn trilogy is somewhat tolerable, but still not good enough to make into a movie. The Horus Heresy? I'd rather watch a movie about Prigozhin's mutiny, it had almost the same plot as HH, but was funny.

  29. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >all these bot replies
    Cinemaphile is over

  30. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    The art style of Warhammer has always looked moronic to me, I don't get how anyone can take it seriously.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      It's not supposed to be taken seriously
      It's a fantasy table top game in a science fiction universe

  31. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    40k movie would just be two hours of CGI action.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      all the best 40k media is action with little/no dialogue

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        I'll agree to a certain extent, with astartes being the prime example. with that being said some dialogue is fine, like chatter between marines or just general talking but it can't be overbearing like straight up explaining the plot to the audience.

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          The Night Lords trilogy has some pretty intriguing perspective with the protag pining for the former glory of his legion as it decays around him even with the admitted contradiction that they've always been scumbag murderers who fight cowardly as a tactic.
          It also has some pretty bad MCU quips between marines.

  32. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    its basically impossible to adapt to live action, the scale is too big to possibly portray. Battles have casualties in the billions

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      millions die in your average star wars space battle

  33. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Because the setting is getting shittier and shittier. 40k is basically indistinguishable from a Marvel comic now

  34. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    if the empire is too fascie for pedowood what chance does the imperium have

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      >what chance does the imperium have
      The imperiums portrayed as very LGBT+ in the lore. Xenophia pretty much replaced racism.

  35. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    its autistic as frick and has basically zero depth.

  36. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Maybe someone can answer this question for me. Why is the only interesting part of Warhammer 40k for me, the god damn Orks?

    They’re a clown car of bad ideas. They would be pure cheese anyplace else. Is it just because they’re the only ones having a good time?

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      they are fricking idiots and don't suffer bad writing because they are funs

  37. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    I’m so sick of you gays treating this slop like it’s the 2nd coming of Christ. Can you go back to spamming Hyperion cantos threads? Or literally any sci-fi that hasn’t been spammed to death.

  38. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    I'm excited to see what henry makes, but I think 40k is one of those properties that works better in text. Most of the battles are implied to be massive scale medieval style clashes but with guns and super weapons, there's no real entertaining way to put that to film without it getting stale.
    It's more interesting to read about how "thirty million soldiers gave there lives to free this forge world from the tyranids... these were the commanders last words" than to actually see it.
    I don't want to see a bunch of space marines talking in quippy dialogue and having moronic drama among themselves. The people of 40k are implied to act and speak in a very straightforward monk like way to avoid chaos temptation. This works in the games because games aren't so dependent on dialogue, but filmmakers won't be able to help themselves, they will give the characters too much personality and it will break immersion.
    The older I get the more I realize some things just shouldn't be put to film. I will still watch what henry makes though, he seems to be genuinely vested in keeping it pure and as long as the higher ups don't force a bunch of garbage down his throat it could be good.

  39. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    I do think it takes too much from other franchises, and it would be way more noticeable in a tv/movie format. It's the same as when people say they want a MGS3 movie, I think it just copies too much from other movie kojima likes, so if you try and convert it back to a movie it will be way too obvious

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