In 2024, Games Workshop’s plan for a line of movies and TV shows in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, with Henry Cavill on board as both star and executive producer, resulted in a deal with Amazon Studios. In case you’d forgotten about it, or started to have doubts it was going anywhere, Games Workshop made sure to bring it up in the company’s annual financial report for 2026.
“This is a long-term partnership with Amazon”, the report says, “and these adaptations will take years to bring successfully to market. The project continues in line with our contractual agreement with Amazon. This same contract prohibits us from sharing certain specific details or commercial terms. What we can share is that Amazon has brought onboard United Artists (UA) and Mike Flanagan. Vertigo and Henry Cavill remain involved as they have been for some time. Having completed initial outlines, Mike should soon be moving on to script.”
Mike Flanagan is best known as a horror director, having created TV shows like The Haunting of Hill House, The Fall of the House of Usher, and the upcoming Carrie miniseries, as well as directing movies like Gerald’s Game, Hush, and Absentia. Horror expertise is perfect for Warhammer 40,000 given that the movie I’d say comes closest to its tone is Event Horizon.
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Flanagan’s also worked with 40K superfan Rahul Kohli on several of those projects, so I guess that raises the odds of getting the voice of Boltgun protagonist Malum Caedo into power armor for real.
Elsewhere the report announced a year of “revenue and profit before tax at record levels” despite Games Workshop having to pay roughly £12 million ($US15.95 million) in tariffs to the USA, £7.8 million of which ($US10.37 million) was reclaimed after the supreme court ruled said tariffs were illegal.
