| 11 March 2021
Long-standing hobby, publishing, video games and retail business Games Workshop, outlet for the Warhammer range of war games, has appointed former Turner Broadcasting and Hasbro Studios executive Finn Arnesen as its first head of entertainment development.
Founded in London in 1975, Games Workshop s history stretches back over 40 years as a UK-based mail-order business for fantasy role-playing games. The company makes fantasy miniatures with each Citadel miniature representing a unique character from the Warhammer fantasy worlds that it creates. The company’s retail stores can be found in hundreds of cities across dozens of countries, with thousands more independent stockists selling Warhammer worldwide.
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Games Workshop Group is delving deeper into the entertainment business with the appointment of the former Turner Broadcasting and Hasbro Studios executive, Finn Arnesen as its first head of entertainment development.
In his new role, Arnesen will get to work mining the Warhammer library of novels and short stories in order to develop live-action and animated content for broadcast channels and platforms worldwide. Arenesen will be reporting into Games Workshop’s EVP of global licensing, Jon Gillard.
Moving over from Hasbro Studios where he was most recently SVP global distribution and development, Arnesen brings with him 25 years’ experience to a role that will see him inherit an initial content slate that includes an already announced live-action drama based on the Eisenhorn series of novels. The franchise is currently being developed with Frank Spotnitz, known for his work on The Man in the High Castle and The X Files.
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Games Workshop Group is delving deeper into the entertainment business with the appointment of the former Turner Broadcasting and Hasbro Studios executive, Finn Arnesen as its first head of entertainment development.
In his new role, Arnesen will get to work mining the Warhammer library of novels and short stories in order to develop live-action and animated content for broadcast channels and platforms worldwide. Arenesen will be reporting into Games Workshop’s EVP of global licensing, Jon Gillard.
Moving over from Hasbro Studios where he was most recently SVP global distribution and development, Arnesen brings with him 25 years’ experience to a role that will see him inherit an initial content slate that includes an already announced live-action drama based on the Eisenhorn series of novels. The franchise is currently being developed with Frank Spotnitz, known for his work on The Man in the High Castle and The X Files.
Image: Syama Pedersen/Games Workshop
Astartes is a fan-made animated series that follows a squad of Space Marines as they go about one of their bloody missions in the Warhammer 40,000 franchise. The project was created by Syama Pedersen, and racked up millions of views on YouTube. Games Workshop took notice of the project’s success, and hired Pedersen to the team. Now, a wave of new, official Warhammer animations is on the way, which is an exciting prospect for fans of Astartes’ painstakingly animated action.
There’s a rich history of Warhammer fan projects turning official as Games Workshop notices animators and filmmakers putting their takes on the long-running franchise on YouTube. Richard Boylan, a cinematic designer at Electronic Arts, released projects like