Warhammer Movie Gets A Director
If you’re a fan of the fantasy film genre and namby pamby hobbits and elves aren’t you’re thing, then I think we’ve got the perfect solution for you. How about a movie based on one of the biggest role playing games in history – Warhammer?
Based on Warhammer 40,000’s tabletop game along with many accompanying books and stories, Warhammer Ultramarines is written by long time Warhammer contributor Dan Abnett and the film has now landed itself a director – newcomer Martyn Pick. New hits the net courtesy of Quiet Earth:
Rumblings of a movie based on Warhammer 40,000’s tabletop role playing games has been around for a while, but now that the first production, Ultramarines, has finally named a director for the film it looks as though it’s actually happening and it won’t be long before we’ll see some badass, hard-combat scifi.
The man to take the reigns on the project is Martyn Pick, a relative newcomer whose past credits include mostly animation work on documentaries like The Age of Stupid and Chicago 10. Apparently Pick was chosen for his “renowned and highly distinctive ability to fuse live action and animation.”
The man behind the script, however, should be no stranger to Warhammer fans. Dan Abnett, writer of more than 25 books for Games Workshop’s Black Library (with total sales in excess of 1.2 million copies) has written the final draft. Abnett also works regularly for 2000 AD, Marvel Comics, and DC Comics and has recently seen publication of the first of three novels for HarperCollins’ new sci-fi, fantasy and horror imprint, “Angry Robot”.
As QE are quick to point out, no plot details have yet emerged from the project, which is produced by Codex Pictures. Check out the official Warhammer Ultramarines site here.
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