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WARHAMMER 40.000

posted 9 years ago by MoonPreacher
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In my opinion he is the only director who could pull a Warhammer 40k movie ( in fact one triology ). Due to the highly complex universe of the franchise ( even larger then LOTR because is a expanded universe and not based in books ), it has a large fanbase but is also a very risky project due to the nature of it. He can pull the production values and more important, he is the prestige to draw people to the movies even if they have no idea of what is WH40k. Anyone agree with me?

[–] thornybacon 9 years ago

Hmm...Jackson has a great eye for visuals and scale, he loves gore and battle sequences and made LOTR and The Hobbit feel pretty grounded and 'real' for heightened fantasy films (well, mostly) so he certainly seems to have the right sort of attitude/experience for directing such a big film...but I don't know if sci-fi is a genre that has ever interested him, and I can think of a a few other directors who would probably suit the future-gothic grimdark warzone, Jackson has a rather indepedant spirit and he tends to be kinda self indulgent i.m.o, any 40K film would probably be funded by a major Hollywood studio...

One thing I will say...during The Hobbit films, I kept thinking to myself how well Richard Armitage could play Inquisitor Gregor Eisenhorn:

http://i.imgur.com/pEa4ZXl.png

Realistically though, WH40K is probably too dark/niche a universe to ever become a live action film