Warhammer 40k.

[Aesop Rocks]

http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/10/01/warhammer-40k-feature-film-ultramarines-coming-our-way/

Codex Pictures have announced production of Ultramarines, the first feature film to be based upon Games Workshop’s Warhammer 40k. If you don’t know what 40k is then it seems, somewhat surprisingly, that you aren’t quite as geeky as me. Simply put, it’s a tabletop wargame, as played with little miniature figurines and dice of many sides. Created in the late 80s as a spacey shooty spin off to a trolls and goblins original, Warhammer Fantasy Battle, the 40k version seems to have developed a following all its own and, at least whenever I walk by the local Games Workshop store, seems to be getting played at least as much as its ‘classic’ swords and sorcery ancestor.

The film has a freshly minted official site, but there’s nothing much to see yet. Meanwhile, Codex Pictures have a press release page that tells us how “hugely honoured” they are to be making the film, and similar puffy fluff.

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The game’s mythology is obviously geared to little more than providing context for violent and often epic confrontations. The hero characters, such as they are, are massive great genetically modified marines, Hulk scaled and armour clad and equipped with some seriously tasty boomsticks. They’re all happy to kill and die in service of the Emperor (sounds… familiar…).
Meanwhile, there are other species cluttering up the Milky Way and lining up to be bashed around a bit. These include the Eldar, essentially space elves, and the Orks who are, to all intents and purposes, Orcs. There’s also a hive-mind species called the Tyranids and some nasty things called Necrons who are living creatures made of metal and therefore (though obviously I don’t mean this literally) rock hard. Quite which of these will be turning up and getting shot at in Ultramarines is, so far, anybody’s guess.
If ever there was a film that had direct to DVD written all over it, its this one. Niche market. Having said that, I know an awful lot of people who’d never dream of touching a 28mm lead model but would like to see a movie full of epic space smackdowns just like this, so just maybe its a breakout waiting to happen.

Here's to hoping production hell.

 

[Nathan]

If this turns out to be something like 300 in space, I'll watch it.

 

[RKO]

I love the video game series.

 

[Nathan]

It has everything it needs for a movie of epic proportions.

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[Aesop Rocks]

Holy damn! I assumed it was like elves and trolls and mystical fairies and..World of Warcrafty. Nevermind! That looks bad-ass!

But, if it's only an elite group of people fighting waves of armies then yeah, it'll get a bunch of flak for being too "300".

 

[RKO]

The tabletop game back in the day pretty much created the term Space Marine. Bunch of bada$$es they are.

 

[Timstuff]

I've never played Warhammer, but I like Games Workshop's paints for my models and custom action figures.

 

[Nathan]

A couple cutscenes from the Dawn of War games for the PC.

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But, if it's only an elite group of people fighting waves of armies then yeah, it'll get a bunch of flak for being too "300".

I honestly wouldn't mind.

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[Aesop Rocks]

I honestly wouldn't mind.

It'll be really confusing with Gears of War of they come out around the same time.

With the suits and badasses and awesomeness.

 

[That-Guy]

I wonder why they're not just calling it Warhammer 40,000. That's a much better title than "Ultramarines," which sounds like a DTV action movie from the 90's. Nevermind though... if they do this right, it could be phenomenal. I had a the board game way back in the day... it was pretty epic stuff. A lot of potential there because it blends sci-fi and fantasy pretty well. The Eldar are friggin' awesome.

 

[Vapor]

Dreadnaughts. That's all I can say.

I use to play 40K when I was younger and was always surprised no one ever tried turning it into a movie. As people have said, it could potentially be phenomenal.. I always see it as been LOTR in space.. with the huge epic battles and different species and stuff.

I hope they can include some of the mythology hat has been written to go with the game and the idea of there been different chapters of the Space Marine army.

A logical, albeit by the numbers, story they could do would be to have the Ultramarines responding to a distress call from an outpost of Imperial Guard (a normal human army) and when they get there they come under attack by, say, the Tyranids.. But I wouldn't mind seeing the Dark Elder or Chaos Marines as main baddies either.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Used to play and love Titan Legions and always wondered if anyone would make a movie about it, it could be a classic sci-fi war movie.

 

[Nathan]

So, has anyone watched this CGI Movie yet?

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[Rowsdower!]

This could be awesome if done well.