I hope Cavill’s a decent dude IRL, he seems like a cool dude when it comes to nerding out on his roles.
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He should be playing Ciaphas Cain in some "Blackadder goes Imperial Guardsman" flashback recounting of his life. Even cherry picking just the ripest stories would get a few potentially great movies by my estimation.
After the fallout with him and Netflix, I'm glad to see that he's able to flex his nerd knowledge again.
What netflix fallout?
He's a passionate nerd with a deep love for his people, and he fought the corpos on the canon he knew better than they did.
He left the Witcher franchise for similar reasons - they couldn’t keep to canon.
Didn't the writers just ignore the source material and thought they could write better? Which made them effectively write fan fiction. And even by those standards, bad fan fiction.
1:30 seconds into episode 1 season 3 Geralt is openly attacking humans. Now I'm sure there's bullshit that explains it but that's as far as I made it because fuck Netflix.
there is a reason why he was called the butcher of blaviken
he didnt sell meat
Provocation. This was not that.
Not only couldn't they keep to cannon, they butchered it horribly. The Witcher is set in a world of rich lore and history, almost none of which is explored or explained in that shitful show. The first season is basically the first book put in a blender and strained through a sieve, and the second season, as far as I can tell, is a load of crap. I gave up after that.
I haven't read any of the books and barely played the games, so I don't know much about the world. I did enjoy the first season, less so the second, and didn't make it far into season 3
He was perfect for the role too. If they stuck to the story, it would have been an amazing series.
While he was a walking encyclopedia of Witcher lore, wanting to give fans the best representation/adaption of the source material that could be made.
And they were Netflix.
Least annoying Warhammer fan:
How is this not literally in the contract when working with q specific IP?
I'm surprised it's not a thing for this. Games Workshop is generally pretty protective of their IP. They license it out like crazy, but generally in pretty restricted bits unless you prove some level of respect.
“We want to broaden the appeal to bring more people into the universe so when we make more content tangentially related to the IP more people watch them.”
It’s step 2 of the enshittification steps for media companies. Step 3 is blaming the fans when they say they don’t like the new stuff because it’s totally different from what they loved.
Games Workshop is really good at doing 2 and 3, they destroyed an entire setting and profuct line doing it.
The people who pay to use the IP put up so much money that it has to be crowd sourced among a few rich people/orgs. The money doesn't care about the property, only the opportunity to leverage this into more money. They are paying for an opportunity.
With this opportunity they make a product that uses the nouns of the source material with varying levels of concern for the output. Not all money is the same and some care about the deliverable more than others. Compare Sony comic book movies to Disney and you can see what having a big comics nerd like Feige can do to keep it true to the material while keeping the content new.
Netflix didn't care about what fans consider truth. They wanted content for their catalogue. Most makers of media don't care about what they make as long as it's popular and any lawsuits don't drain the gains.
Seeking a mythical "wider, modern audience" rather than appealing to the core fans.
It is an excellent strategy to alienate everyone and thank an IPs value, to be used as a tax write-off.
How so? The original lore is a mess and several details have changed over years while novelists have contradicted each other multiple times.
The sincere effort I think is what's most important. Even if the show contradicts some of the existing lore one can still make a good faith argument as to why something is added or left out due to other reasons in-universe and out
Yeah sure. If they wrote "Henry Cavill's rule ensures a lore-faithful adaptation" - fine, that would be great. "100% Lore Accurate" is an impossible standard that just ensures many an immature nerd will load their keyboard with religious intent.
Maybe the show will be just as convoluted and contradictory so it's 100% accurate. 🤷♂️
I would be okay with that. Really lets the viewer get a sense of the effects of Chaos. /s
Just imagining a Space Marine Chaplain slamming a Crozius onto a keyboard screaming about heretics lol
Never underestimate a writers ability to fuck shit up. One easy example is the Halo tv show.
The writers were forced into using Halo for that show. They wanted to do their own thing and the producers made them use the license.
Are you saying that Master Cheeks wouldn't have had sex with a POW?
This guy is great
He's one of the greatest actors of his generation IMHO.
And apparently a strong personal set of ethics from at least what I've read about him in the media.
Except for his views on consent
I feel like you should really provide a source if youre going to say things like that
Which edition of the Codex? 3e is the farthest I'll go.
If you're asking that question you probably have already read at least 1 I assume
Yes, Codex: Craftworld Eldar.