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Warhammer 40k Feature Film Ultramarines Coming Our Way | /Film

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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.


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.
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Ug, I really think the Horus Heresy would be much more interesting to a wider audience than Ultra Marines. :\

Though I guess with the Horus Heresy, you would have to make it into multiple movies so it wouldn't really work if you only made one. Would have to be a trilogy (Horus being awesome, Horus falls, Horus getting to Earth)
 
JodoFett said:
Ug, I really think the Horus Heresy would be much more interesting to a wider audience than Ultra Marines. :\

Though I guess with the Horus Heresy, you would have to make it into multiple movies so it wouldn't really work if you only made one. Would have to be a trilogy (Horus being awesome, Horus falls, Horus getting to Earth)
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Well, I don't know about the "more interesting/wider audience" component for an initial story...With this, they simply make 300 in space and everybody wins (unless they fuck it up and it turns out to be Starship Troopers. I agree that the HH makes for a richer story, but we'll have to see.

On a related note, I am extremely fucking excited for A Thousand Suns and Prospero Burns.
 
Yeah, I finally picked up Mechanicum but haven't really had a chance to sit down and read it. I really wish we had more Alpha Legion books though.
 
I'd love to see an emperors children movie set afterwards

it would be like maquis de sade on crack and ether

6' tentacles instead of a cock? 14 virgins lined up? dildo shaped boltgun? rape em and then render down the chemicals in their bodies to synthesise mental drugs? yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

they dont write 40k like they used to ;\
 
There's a ton of good stories they could do.

I still want more about the goddamn Custodaes than that ONE story in Tales of Heresy

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Yeah, I finally picked up Mechanicum but haven't really had a chance to sit down and read it. I really wish we had more Alpha Legion books though.
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Agree!

Also, Flight of the Eisenstein could be pretty freaking awesome.
 
nah space dwarves!

squats ;)

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Azra3l said:
There's a ton of good stories they could do.

I still want more about the goddamn Custodaes than that ONE story in Tales of Heresy



Agree!

Also, Flight of the Eisenstein could be pretty freaking awesome.
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Yeah, Flight of the Eisenstein would be an awesome movie by itself, but I don't really see it making it out unless quite a few movies are made first.
 
Yeah...I'm making statements purely as a WH40K nerd now, not as a film douche...Sometimes you have to take the beret off and put the pocket protector ON.
 
Ugh while Space Marines are ok I'm pretty sick of their generic-ambiance they bring. Give me a high budget CG film where the Tau first align with the Kroot to fight off the Orks or something.

"Tau society is centered around the concept of "the Greater Good"; a unifying philosophy similar to utilitarianism, where individual Tau sacrifice personal gain in favour of benefiting the Tau race as a whole." It is from this philosophy that the Tau's all-purpose motto, "For the Greater Good!", is derived.
 
I'd say Muk was right that the Ultramarines are pretty bland, but the Space Wolves are pretty unique. (SPACE VIKINGS?!)
 
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