Games Workshop just confirmed a new Warhammer animated series is a Deathwatch show headed to Amazon Prime. Get every detail on the studio, story, and release.
The Warhammer Amazon deal has spent the last couple of years running on names and promises. Henry Cavill’s involvement kept it in the headlines, the contracts got signed, and then updates mostly dried up.
GW’s 2026 annual report has finally given us something solid. The media section names the people working on the projects and confirms that a full Deathwatch animated series has entered production.
This isn’t a leak or rumor either; it’s in GW’s audited report for shareholders, which makes it about as official as Warhammer news gets.
There are still limits on what GW can reveal, however, as the contract “prohibits us from sharing certain specific details or commercial terms,” so there are no release dates, budgets, episode counts, or plot details yet.
- The latest: the Amazon deal has moved into real production with a named creative team.
- Project News: GW confirms United Artists, Mike Flanagan, John Orloff, and Blur, along with a full Deathwatch animated series releasing through Amazon.
- What’s next: the next meaningful update should be a release date or trailer.
Amazon’s Warhammer 40k Series Puts Deathwatch on the Hunt
Updated on August 4th 2026, by Rob Baer with the latest information.
Amazon’s next Warhammer 40k animated project will spin directly out of the Secret Level anthology, and this time the Deathwatch are getting the spotlight.
Dave Wilson, who directed the Secret Level Warhammer episode, is co-creating and directing the series alongside Masters of the Air and Band of Brothers writer John Orloff. Tim Miller, Henry Cavill, Natalie Viscuso, Roy Lee, and Games Workshop’s Andy Smillie are among the executive producers working with Amazon MGM Studios.
Wilson explained that Secret Level was built to open the door for bigger stories in a recent interview with Variety:
“Secret Level wasn’t conceived simply as an anthology. It was designed as a launchpad for larger stories.”
He added that the response to the Warhammer episode was “extraordinary,” especially from fans who recognized the effort put into getting the setting right. Wilson has wanted to tell a long-form Warhammer 40k story for more than 20 years, and this Deathwatch series finally gives him the chance to do it.
So now the upcming Deathwatch Animated series offers Warhammer fans the clearest look yet at how Amazon and Games Workshop plan to turn that first animated episode for Space Marine 2 into something much bigger.
The Warhammer Amazon Series Deal Finally Has Real Names
GW says United Artists “have been decisive and brought their renowned pace and quality to the project.” More importantly, Mike Flanagan has completed his initial outlines and “should soon be moving on to script.” That’s a real milestone because the outlines are done, and scripting comes next.
The report also shuts down the Cavill leaving rumors, as Vertigo and Henry Cavill “remain involved as they have been for some time.”
GW completed negotiations on the Amazon adaptation on 10 December 2024 and still describes the partnership as something that “will take years to bring successfully to market.” It’s moving, but it still isn’t close enough for GW to start giving dates.
The Warhammer Animated Series is the Real Headline: Deathwatch
The biggest entertainment announcement from GW’s anually report is straightforward: “We have begun work on a full animated Warhammer 40,000 series featuring our Space Marines: Deathwatch.”
Plus, according to the updates the animations will be by Blur who already handled the Space Marine episode of Amazon’s Secret Level. So we’ve already actually seen what the studio can do with 40k, and it rocked
Overall though, the Deathwatch are also a strong fit for animation because they’re the elite xenos hunters pulled from different Space Marine Chapters, giving the series plenty of room for varied characters, weapons, and alien threats.
Either way, GW hasn’t confirmed a release window, episode count, or plot. So, for now, the series and its creative team are the only locked details.
An Age of Sigmar Animated Series Snuck In Too…
GW also says it has “almost completed an episode for Secret Level Season 2, this time set in our Age of Sigmar universe.”
That makes it the first Age of Sigmar screen adaptation outside of YouTube or GW’s Warhammer+ app that we know of. The Amazon partnership started as a 40k deal, but now, Age of Sigmar has joined the wider animation push too.
Best of all, the episode is nearly finished, though GW hasn’t shared its story or release date; the last Secret Level episode debuted in the 2025 holiday season.
Final Thoughts on the Warhammer 40k Animated Series
For the first time, we know that the Amazon deal finally has confirmed projects and an actual production team behind it. Flanagan’s outlines are finished, the Deathwatch series is underway, and Blur has already shown it can make 40k work on screen.
The missing dates aren’t surprising when GW says its contract limits what it can disclose. That’s why the annual report gives us names and projects but no calendar attached to them.
So for now, a new trailer or release date is the next update worth watching for. Until then, this is the clearest sign yet that Amazon’s Warhammer plans have moved well past planning and are now into production.
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