For your weekend reading pleasure…

by danabnett on Jan.22, 2010, under Dan Abnett and Graham McNeill

I just wanted to pop back tonight and get you all fired up for Graham McNeill, who’ll be manning the main blog here for the next couple of days. Expect Ultramarines, the origin of Graham’s Ultramarine fiction, writing nuts and bolts (should that be ‘bolters’?), and plenty of other cool stuff. I’ll be chipping in too, in the comment department, and then next week we’ll be onto all sorts of cool stuff.

Have a good weekend, Babel Clashers. With Graham in the Big Blog Chair, how could you not?

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5 Comments for this entry

Jay
January 22nd, 2010 on 3:57 pm
Okay maybe a slightly awkward question but here goes…

Dan, you got to write the Ultramarines film script a couple of years ago (in secret) - very exciting that we are finally going to see a film and that you were involved.

Graham, the Ultramarines are kind of seen as being “owned” by you now.

So, did you guys feel the need to discuss, swap notes, shake hands, have an arm wrestle, go off in a sulk, play paper, scissors, rock?

One other question - you both deftly sidestepped (ignored) last time is whether you had ideas for other future potential film/tv ideas for W40k?

Me, I’d love to see the GG series like Band of Brothers (CGI would be fine)!!!!!
morgan
January 22nd, 2010 on 6:12 pm
Can you imagine a Warhammer 40k movie getting the Avatar treatment? Imagine what some of those battlefields could look like in 3D.
Somebody
January 22nd, 2010 on 7:29 pm
“Imagine what some of those battlefields could look like in 3D.”

Heads would explode…
danabnett
January 23rd, 2010 on 3:26 am
Jay - I admire your persistence, Jay, but could you not tell from our diplomatic silence that right now we’re really not allowed to talk about the 40K movie?

Let’s just say… everything is entirely amicable. The first 40K movie was always going to be about Space Marines, and the Ultramarines were a perfect choice in terms of the ‘brand’. There are ways of doing things that don’t break anyone’s toes but make the most of the IP - which is what tie-in writers like us are supposed to be good at.

And yes, Morgan, in 3D… awesome sauce.
Jay
January 23rd, 2010 on 8:07 am
Dan - I know but if you don’t ask…