Henry Cavill is transferring on. After the actor’s lately touted return as Superman was dominated out this week by DC Studios boss James Gunn, hypothesis that Cavill may reply by un-retiring from the function of Geralt of Rivia in Netflix’s The Witcher has been squashed — it’s not occurring. However the world’s favourite nerdy beefcake does have a brand new mission lined up: a Warhammer 40,000 collection with Amazon.
Based on the Hollywood Reporter, Amazon is in ultimate talks with Video games Workshop to safe the rights to Warhammer 40K, so it’s not fairly a executed deal but, however Cavill is connected to star and function government producer on the present. No showrunner or author is connected but to the variation of the darkish fantasy sci-fi setting of Video games Workshop’s tabletop wargames.
Cavill is a longtime fan of the Warhammer universe. In the course of the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown, he revealed on Instagram that he was utilizing the free time to brush up on his miniature-painting abilities. “Considered one of my nearly life-long hobbies, that I’ve been following however not actively doing, is that this,” he wrote underneath a photograph of him delicately portray a tiny helmet. “An organization known as Video games Workshop… or plastic crack as ‘we’ name it. Genuinely can’t get sufficient of the lore they’ve constructed over the many years. They’ve been a few of my most enthused reads! For those who had been in denial about me being a geek earlier than, you possibly can’t conceal from it now.”
Earlier this 12 months, Cavill posted a video of a go to to Warhammer World, a customer attraction at Video games Workshop HQ in Nottingham within the U.Ok. “I don’t typically really feel at residence, however I did that day,” Cavill stated, enthusing concerning the discussions he’d had on Warhammer lore and miniature design with the Video games Workshop crew.
On this proof, and going by his government producer credit score, Cavill’s private funding on this mission might even outstrip his famously devoted flip as Geralt. However followers’ hopes that he may reverse his resolution to go away The Witcher after DC Studios opted to recast Superman are unfounded. Selection studies that season 4 of The Witcher is transferring forward unchanged, with Liam Hemsworth within the function of Geralt.
With the Warhammer 40K collection nonetheless within the early levels of improvement, it gained’t be Cavill’s subsequent mission, however the actor nonetheless has a number of irons within the fireplace, together with two spy movies: Argylle, with Kingsman director Matthew Vaughn, and The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, directed by Man Ritchie. Argylle has already shot, the Ritchie movie is because of shoot early in 2023, and each are seen as potential franchises. “I wanted somebody who was born to play Bond — which Henry is — after which nick him earlier than Bond did,” Vaughn instructed the Hollywood Reporter.