There are plenty of absolute units in Warhammer 40,000. Which one would you cast Henry Cavill as?
. Cavill called it"a Warhammer Cinematic Universe" on Instagram, which makes it sound like we should expect multiple stories. Assuming Cavill isn't playing every role in all of them—a one-man fringe theater production I would actually watch—he'll get to portray one character from across the entire setting. So, who should that be?
One option would be an episodic series that looks at the setting in individual slices. Have Cavill play a shipmaster or rogue trader with a motley crew and send them across the galaxy to struggle and die in space.
Fans have suggested another fitting role for Cavill would be Ciaphas Cain, from a series of books about an Imperial Guard Commissar whose attempts to cover his cowardice see him mistaken for an actual hero and turned into a propaganda weapon.
Of course, an adaptation doesn't need his repetitive narration or transformation into an unkillable badass who just happens to be a bit pragmatic. People who make three-hour YouTube videos about how shows ruin books wouldn't like it, but taking the basic concept of the Ciaphas Cain stories and making something better out of them could be a fun way to introduce the setting, and show that 40K is capable of having a sense of humor rather than just being all grim all the time.
And there are plenty of more appropriate roles in the Horus Heresy, which features a cast of ridiculous size. The most popular characters tend to be the primarchs. These experimental demigods served as the genetic source for the space marines, but unlike their typically stoic descendents, the primarchs are larger-than-life exaggerations, mythic characters whose moods are legendary. I'd rather see Cavill as one of them.
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