For the first time ever, a feature film based on Games Workshop's phenomenally popular Warhammer 40,000 science fantasy universe has been bought to screen - a cause for celebration for British film makers Codex Pictures and dedicated Warhammer 40,000 fans worldwide.
Employing a rich, atmosphere-laden CGI animation style, ULTRAMARINES: A WARHAMMER 40,000 MOVIE is available now as a two-disc special edition collector's set in a striking original SteelBook⢠case, including bonus features and a specially commissioned graphic 'prequel' novel. This presents a unique opportunity to own the film as a collectable DVD ahead of its limited theatrical run in selected UK cinemas and retail distribution later next year.
Based on Games Workshop's internationally successful tabletop wargame Warhammer 40,000, the screenplay for ULTRAMARINES has been written by one of their best-selling Black Library authors Dan Abnett, who also writes for 2000AD, Marvel Comics and DC Comics. The suspenseful story follows a raw squad of Ultramarines investigating an urgent request for assistance from the remote shrine-world of Mithron. Mithron is defended by a full company of Imperial Fists, a fellow chapter of Space Marines who, for countless generations, have stood guard over the planet and its Imperial Shrine. What dreadful fate could have overcome them that they had to activate the distress beacon? On arriving, the squad discovers that a terrible battle has taken place and some great evil has been unleashed. As unseen dangers close in around them, the newly promoted battle-brothers have to mount a tense and deadly insertion to find any surviving Imperial Fists and the reason behind the emergency signal...
