Warhammer 40k Fluff Discussion XVII: Call Necrosius, The Old Thread Is Dead!

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For a tv series my first thoughts are either to go with a mini series like Love, Death and Robots to give lots of interesting little self contained snippets, or a tight series of pdf/guardsman/inquisitor vs chaos or genestealer cult.
By limiting it to one enemy the series doesn't get too distracted trying to explain why everyone is fighting over one planet, which is a failing in most of the big campaigns gw used to run and the two "cult" armies can start off nicely with human vs human before slowly reveal the alien/daemons that are running things in the background.
A big advantage of tv over books is you can show a lot of the 40k setting that tends to get brushed over in the background without having to spend time describing it. Tech priests and servitors working on tanks in a depot that the protagonists walk through quickly show that things are weird. A statue of a space marine, a stained glass painting or a company banner can all show off that there are other things out there, but they're not relevant to most people's day to life.