Sometimes things happen while the team is traveling. While dark, there is evidence that in most places, life is going on as it always have. No pure ice worlds here, nor planets with twenty alien species speaking one language.

Also, unlike the SW universe, we see planets and travel between them that makes sense. With the exception of a ill placed lightsabre energy sword, most of the tech in the world didn't seem out of line. Let me assure you that the praise I will be giving this series is in respect to other tie in novels(looking at you Star Wars), I know full well that this is not going to appeal to literature snobs.įirst of all, the world works. All three books contained(and the two short stories) were a first person narrative of Eisenhorn, a inquisitor who searchers for influences of Chaos though the galaxy. Luckily you need no knowledge of the WH4K world to start, what little background that is needed is dropped in ways that didn't piss me off. But Abnett was fairly consistently named as a good writer of fun sci-fi, so I gave this a go. Late last year, Games Workshop said it was developing an animated series based on Warhammer 40,000 called Angels of Death.This is my first run of the Warhammer Universe, something I didn't think I was interested in. The news release did not say when or where Eisenhorn will air.Ībnett was also the writer for 2010’s Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie, an animated movie starring Terence “ Kneel before Zod!” Stamp and the late John Hurt (Garrick Ollivander in the Harry Potter film series). With Eisenhorn, it’s not just the adventures, and they are certainly vivid: it’s the journey he takes to the very limits of what he is and what it means to be loyal.”įrank Spotnitz, Big Light’s chief executive and The Man in the High Castle’s showrunner, will also run Eisenhorn, with Emily Feller as executive producer. His battle with the Warp leads him into dark places and forces him to question his duty, his understanding of the Imperium, and his own identity. “He is not the simple, ruthless hero he appears to be. “The appeal to me, from the moment I started writing him, was his complexity,” Abnett said of Eisenhorn in a statement. In the books, the Imperial Inquisition to which Eisenhorn belongs is caught up in a shadowy conflict as war rages throughout the known universe. The world of Warhammer 40,000 is set in the near future, which blends themes of science fiction and fantasy/magic. A news release from Games Workshop and Big Light said Eisenhorn will be based on these books ( Xenos, Malieus and Hereticus).

The Warhammer 40,000 canon is getting a live-action TV series made by Big Light Productions - the folks responsible for Amazon’s The Man in the High Castle.Įisenhorn, as the series will reportedly be called, spotlights the major character Gregor Eisenhorn, the Inquisitor who starred in a trilogy of books by Dan Abnett that debuted in 2001.

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