‘Warhammer 40,000’ Animated Series Set At Amazon; Henry Cavill To EP

Amazon MGM Studios is developing a Warhammer 40,000 animated event series alongside the upcoming live-action version, sources close to the project confirmed to Deadline. Additionally, Henry Cavill, who is set to star and EP the live-action series, is on board to executive produce. Amazon declined comment,.

The animated series, from Amazon MGM Studios, Blur Studios and Games Workshop, will be a spinoff of Secret Level, Prime Video’s adult animated anthology series, we’ve learned. The first season featured a “Warhammer 40,000” episode when it aired in late 2024.

The series is co-created and directed by Dave Wilson, who directed Secret Level’s Warhammer 40,000 episode. John Orloff (Masters of the Air) serves as co-creator alongside Wilson.

Few details are known about the storyline, but we hear it will revolve around The Deathwatch, an elite group of Space Marines that specialize in hunting down alien threats.

Warhammer 40,000 is set in the far future, where humanity stands at the edge of what might be its brightest future, or its darkest age. The threats to humankind’s empire are many: traitors driven by the fires of ambition, alien empires sworn to reclaim the stars and the corruption of reality by malevolent gods.

Secret Level creator Tim Miller will executive produce for Blur Studios alongside Cavill and Natalie Viscuso. Vertigo Entertainment’s Roy Lee executive produces with Andy Smillie from Games Workshop. The series is being developed in partnership with Amazon MGM Studios and Games Workshop.

Amazon Studios secured global rights to the Warhammer 40,000 game from Games Workshop in 2022, which includes film, television and associated merchandising rights.

Deadline’s sister site Variety was first to report the news.