If there was going to be a TV show based on 40k what would it be about? I personally think the only choice is either DH or RT. And I'm leaning toward DH. Any Space Marine show would be to hack and slash I think, unless you did it about the politics and interactions of the Chapters. Same goes for OW. Although now that I think about it RT would be pretty good and you could use a lot of the same sets. Let me know what you think.
If there was going to be a TV show based on 40k what would it be about?
Depends on the channel.
History would make it about how Ancient Aliens (Eldar, Old Ones, etc.) messed around with humanity in the early days. It'd also do a bunch of superweapon documentaries.
AMC would have a long, boring plotline involving the stupidest guardsmen in the Imperium on a planet infested with Nurgle Rot - either that, or the adventures of a Cold Trade anti-hero.
Fox would have the best show ever, and it'd be cancelled after half a season after getting no marketing support.
ABC would make it a Tau series and play the Tau straight as the legit goodguys.
NBC would do a Dark Heresy series with some monster-of-the-week stuff and a lot of investigation. It'd start out weak but get better over time.
CW would have a surprisingly good Rogue Trader series about a bunch of young and beautiful people who have a lot of action and a lot of angst. It'd get pretty dark pretty fast and pretty often.
British comedy about Ciaphas Cain in the style of Blackaddar (if any of you whipper snappers are old enough to remember that one).
Cain would be played by David Tennant.
Edited by SpatulaodoomAnd a decade ago, MTV might've actually shown us Bonesingers making stuff, to the tune of Eldar jams; maybe some Harlequins would do the stage show, and make the music video fun to watch. Today, it might just be a group of Sororitas, living in a house, trying to figure out which one of them can sleaze their way into hooking up with Dante. (In truth, I have NO idea what programming MTV has now, if they are even still around.)
Novice and Pregnant.
And a "talent" show for the Imperial Guards.
RT opener for the show "The warp, gateway to a frontier of profits. These are the expeditions of rogue trader Ander Preese, called on by the Emperor to exploit profitable new worlds, to seek out and destroy xenos threats to the imperium, to gloriously bring all under the Emperors rule".
I'd think something like an Inquisitor or Rogue Trader game would work best. You can showcase literally all the layers of the 40K setting with either. It can even be two shows with each acting as the other's antagonist.
I'd think something like an Inquisitor or Rogue Trader game would work best. You can showcase literally all the layers of the 40K setting with either. It can even be two shows with each acting as the other's antagonist.
Or just semi-regular/periodic crossovers/cameos somewhat like the CW has done with Arrow and Flash. Or perhaps like Stargate: SG1 and Atlantis ... except for the premature cancellations.
Plus, I'd think intertwining them that closely would be too limiting - especially since the Inquisitor is primarily within the Imperium, and the Rogue Trader is primarily beyond the Imperium.
You'd also have to bend the 'normal' time dilation of Warp travel, so as to keep the shows more or less in sync, but you'd probably be doing that anyways.
Still, with the right people doing it, and properly supported, it'd be pretty awesome. Unfortunately, it'd be all too easy, I think, to mess things up. Plus, it'd probably be pretty rough on the VFX and costuming departments/budgets.
That said, I would give them the benefit of the doubt, at least.
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HBO would have a show about the rise (and possible fall) of Cammorrah, with Vect as a main character. There'd be lots of violence, perversion, graphic gore, and wych **** in almost half the scenes.
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Maybe the best one.
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three Battle Sisters work for a shadowy inquisitor, they often don't wear power armor.