Deathwatch Leads 15-Part Warhammer Series as Prime Video Officially Sets Henry Cavill’s Next Franchise Spinoff

Secret Level’s Warhammer link

Prime Video’s Warhammer 40,000 plans include a live-action project led by Henry Cavill and another animated series. The animated spinoff grows out of Secret Level, the anthology created by Tim Miller, who directed Deadpool and created Love, Death & Robots.

Secret Level premiered in 2024 with original animated stories set in video game worlds. Its fifth episode, “And They Shall Know No Fear,” follows Titus from the Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine games.

A new animated spinoff

Dave Wilson, who directed the Warhammer episode, is developing the new series. Cavill is among its executive producers, and the story is confirmed to focus on the Deathwatch.

Titus offers an entry point

The Secret Level episode is set after Space Marine 2 and follows Titus and several Ultramarine battle brothers on a short mission. The story does not delve deeply into the franchise’s lore, instead presenting its setting through a focused action story.

Titus has also served as an accessible character for people unfamiliar with the wider Warhammer 40,000 universe. His Deathwatch history could connect him to the spinoff, though that possibility remains unconfirmed.

Expanding a vast universe

Secret Level’s Warhammer story compressed the setting into a 20-minute episode. A full animated series could tell a larger story while drawing on the qualities that made the episode effective.

The tabletop game began in 1987, and the franchise has since grown through novels, rulebooks, audio dramas and video games. Secret Level’s second season was confirmed in December 2024 and is in production, while the Warhammer spinoff further extends the anthology’s reach.