Warhammer 40,000's Most Famous Player, Henry Cavill, Presented With a Gift Fit for the Emperor Himself While Filming Highlander in Poland

No substance wherever Henry Cavill goes, Warhammer 40,000 seems to follow. The erstwhile Superman actor, who is simply a immense instrumentality of Games Workshop’s tabletop wargame and is acceptable to prima successful the Warhammer 40,000 Cinematic Universe for Amazon, was chatting with fans during a interruption from filming Highlander successful Poland, erstwhile helium was presented with a peculiar acquisition from a section store owner: a Custodes box.

For the uninitiated, the Adeptus Custodes are a fashionable faction wrong Warhammer 40,000. In the lore, they are the Emperor’s bodyguard, much almighty adjacent than the genetically enhanced Space Marines, resplendent successful their golden armor and devoted to protecting the person of the Imperium of Man. Cavill has spoken of his emotion of the Custodes before, posting clips connected his societal media showing disconnected his coating skills — and adjacent leaving books for the Horus Heresy tabletop crippled strewn astir connected his array for a photograph showing his betterment from a limb wounded sustained portion filming Highlander.

And truthful a Custodes container (specifically, the Warhammer Horus Heresy: Legio Custodes Battle Group box) madce for a fitting acquisition for Cavill, fixed to him by a games store proprietor successful Lodz, Poland. In a reddit post, store proprietor BenzOC called it was “a large experience,” and said helium wanted Cavill “to person immoderate bully Warhammer memories from our city.” According to BenzOC, Cavill was “very pleased with the present,” and based connected the actor’s grin captured successful the photo, below, that’s rather the understatement.

“Hope helium volition travel backmost to sprout immoderate Warhammer worldly present also!” BenzOC added, referencing the Warhammer 40,000 live-action enactment Cavill is acceptable to footwear into cogwheel astatine immoderate constituent successful the future.

Speaking of which, backmost successful January, Games Workshop addressed the agelong hold for Cavill’s Warhammer 40,000 Cinematic Universe, insisting that Amazon was successful power of the transportation of the adaptation. Games Workshop itself has cautioned fans not to expect to spot thing of it for immoderate time, adjacent now, implicit 3 years aft the woody was announced.

Fans person spent the past fewer years successful a authorities of enduring excitement astir the imaginable of yet seeing Warhammer 40,000 brought to beingness successful live-action signifier crossed films and TV shows — and with Cavill steering the ship, they’re assured it volition beryllium done right.

Hopefully we'll get immoderate details, including who Cavill himself volition play, soon. In June past year, Cavill touched connected the “complexity” and “trickiness” of adapting the Warhammer 40,000 IP. But, helium insisted, helium was loving the challenge. Bringing Warhammer to beingness "is a imagination travel true," Cavill said, "but it's antithetic from what I've done before, successful the consciousness I haven't had my manus connected the tiller of things before. It's fantastic doing that. It is simply a tricky IP, and a precise analyzable IP, and that's what I emotion astir it. The challenges that travel with putting this connected the leafage successful a mode that is doing justness to that complexity, that trickiness, and that nuance, is simply a situation I'm enjoying enormously."

But Warhammer 40,000 wasn’t the lone happening Cavill is celebrated for that followed him each the mode to the Highlander sprout successful Poland. Another instrumentality said that helium was fixed a publication of a The Witcher spinoff book, too.

Cavill, of course, played Geralt of Rivia successful Netflix’s adaptation of The Witcher, and is simply a immense instrumentality of the games. The Witcher began beingness successful Poland arsenic a bid of phantasy novels by writer Andrzej Sapkowski, truthful this was different fitting gift.

As for Highlander, it’s inactive without a merchandise date, but accumulation is successful afloat swing, and determination are plentifulness of acceptable photos retired determination that springiness america an thought of what to expect from the “John Wick with guns” reboot.

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