Prime Video's 15-Part Sci-Fi Series Is So Good, It's Officially Getting A Spinoff

Via MovieStillsDB Published Aug 4, 2026, 8:00 PM EDT Ben Sherlock is a Tomatometer-approved film and TV critic who runs the massively underrated YouTube channel I Got Touched at the Cinema. Before working at Screen Rant, Ben wrote for Game Rant, Taste of Cinema, Comic Book Resources, and BabbleTop. He's also an indie filmmaker, a standup comedian, and an alumnus of the School of Rock. Sign in to your ScreenRant account There’s a reason why nerds love Henry Cavill so much: he’s one of us. He looks like a typical leading man, but he’s a big-time gamer and comic book reader. The role of Superman made him a global star, and now, he’s using his clout in Hollywood to get the geekiest properties onto the screen. He’s playing Connor MacLeod in a Highlander reboot, King Alfor in a Voltron movie, and he already brought Geralt of Rivia to life in The Witcher on Netflix. Over the years, Cavill has professed his love for a number of fantasy roleplaying games and strategy games, whether it’s Total War or World of Warcraft, but there’s no gaming franchise that he talks about with more reverence than Warhammer 40,000. Cavill is seemingly the world’s biggest Warhammer fan, and he’s buried himself in the franchise’s decades’ worth of lore. In late 2024, Games Workshop closed a deal with Amazon Studios to turn the Warhammer 40,000 universe into a mega-scale streaming franchise for Prime Video. Cavill is already attached to executive-produce and star in a live-action Warhammer show for Prime. But now, Cavill is also developing an animated Warhammer series for the streamer. Clearly, this guy can’t get enough of Warhammer. Love, Death & Robots co-creator Tim Miller cooked up another animated anthology, Secret Level, which premiered on Prime in December 2024 (around the same time the Warhammer deal closed). Each episode of Secret Level tells a standalone story paying homage to a different beloved gaming franchise, ranging from Dungeons & Dragons to Pac-Man to Mega Man. The Warhammer episode — episode 5, “Warhammer 40,000: And They Shall Know No Fear” — turned out to be one of the show’s best installments. Cavill’s Warhammer cartoon will expand that episode into its own series, much like Marvel Zombies did with the post-apocalyptic What If...? scenario. So, we’re getting two Cavill-led Warhammer shows for the price of one Prime subscription. Could Secret Level Get More Spinoffs? The Warhammer episode of Secret Level stood out because long-time fans of the franchise appreciated the deep cuts. The episode was so well-received that it’s clear the fan base has enough faith in these creators for a spinoff to be a viable option. But can the same be said for any other episodes of Secret Level? The series, as a whole, was met with mixed reviews. Its Rotten Tomatoes consensus aptly describes it as “a glorified sizzle reel.” It has a “fresh” score of 65%, but it’s dangerously close to the “rotten” threshold. The show tries to summarize massive, sprawling tales in much too short a runtime. The episodes play like little vignettes giving you a taste of a much larger, more complex world. But that’s precisely why some Secret Level episodes need their own spinoff like the Warhammer series. They all just scratched the surface of these humungous properties. Buddibot could easily get his own spinoff; he’s like Asobi, jumping all over the spectrum of PlayStation properties, so a Buddibot series could follow Secret Level’s anthology format and have Buddibot visit a different PlayStation universe in each episode: Uncharted, Cyberpunk, The Last of Us, Ghost of Tsushima — the sky is the limit. Unfortunately, Buddibot is voiced by Kevin Hart, so it might be prohibitively expensive to make a whole series out of him. Amazon will probably wait to see how Cavill’s animated Warhammer series does before greenlighting more Secret Level spinoffs. Secret Level itself has already been renewed for a second season — Amazon greenlit season 2 almost as soon as season 1 dropped — so that’ll bring us another batch of potential spinoffs. There are always alarm bells when Hollywood sinks its teeth into one of those beloved nerd properties. But Warhammer couldn’t be in safer hands than Henry Cavill’s. 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