Horror specialist Mike Flanagan has issued an update on his hotly anticipated live-action Warhammer 40,000 TV series, teasing something “unexpected” for fans.
Flanagan has only ever spoken in vague terms about the Warhammer project, dancing around the details while out and about promoting his Prime Video series, Carrie. Last month, he discussed the challenges of adapting Games Workshop’s long-running and complex Warhammer 40,000 universe into a TV show, calling it “brutally difficult.” And in a new interview with Deadline, he said much the same, although did give fans something new to chew on.
Flanagan, writer, director, and showrunner of a number of much-loved Netflix horror TV shows including The Haunting of Hill House, The Haunting of Bly Manor, and The Fall of the House of Usher, said: “Henry Cavill would be furious if I divulged anything about what we’re working on. All I can say is that Warhammer is a fascinating world. The challenge, as anyone familiar with it knows, is finding a way in — it’s so big. There are 700 novels, discounting the [table top] game, the interactive elements and so much of the rest of the lore.”
Despite this challenge, Flanagan insisted he had found “a very cool and unexpected on-ramp into it, which I think is very exciting. I’m sworn to secrecy on all of it, but I’m having the time of my life working on it.”
I’ll get into what this “very cool and unexpected on-ramp” might be below, but for now, some background: Flanagan has signed a multi-year deal with Amazon to develop and produce original series for the studio, the first of which was his adaptation of Stephen King’s horror classic, Carrie.
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