Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie (2010)

Director:

Martyn Pick

Writer:

Dan Abnett (screenplay)

Genre:

Animation | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war

Plot:

A squad of Ultramarines answer a distress call from an Imperial Shrine World. A full Company of Imperial Fists was stationed there, but there is no answer from them. The squad investigates to find out what has happened there. |

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Cast

Terence Stamp	...	Cpt. Severus (voice)
John Hurt	...	Brother Carnak (voice)
Sean Pertwee	...	Brother Proteus (voice)
Steven Waddington	...	Brother Verenor (voice)
Donald Sumpter	...	Brother Pythol (voice)
Johnny Harris	...	Brother Nidon (voice)
Ben Bishop	...	Crastor (voice)
Christopher Finney	...	Brother Boreas (voice)
Gary Martin	...	Brother Hypax (voice)

Directed by
Martyn Pick

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Dan Abnett		screenplay

Produced by
Michael Carter	....	associate producer
Vanessa Chapman	....	executive producer
Andrew Egiziano	....	consulting animation producer
Linda James	....	executive producer
David Kerney	....	producer
Alexander Lentjes	....	line producer
Roddy McManus	....	co-producer
Marc Roberge	....	executive producer
Dominique St-Louis	....	executive producer
Yu-Fai Suen	....	executive producer
Bob Thompson	....	producer

Original Music by
Adam Harvey

Cinematography by
Darren Lovell

Film Editing by
David Lewis Smith

Casting by
Brendan McNamara

Makeup Department
Jo Budden	....	makeup artist

Production Management
Patrick Albert	....	production manager
Lucinda Englehart	....	executive in charge of production
Peter Escarcega	....	assistant production manager
Luke Howard	....	production manager
Annie Normandin	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Luke Howard	....	assistant director

Art Department
Mike Collins	....	storyboard artist
Darren Fereday	....	lead designer
Paul Jeacock	....	face design
Kelvin Johnson	....	lead designer
Karl Kopinski	....	development artist
Stefan Kopinski	....	development artist
Sam Lamont	....	prop design artist
Clint Langley	....	character and prop design
David Lewis	....	additional color artist
Ceri Newnham	....	additional color artist
Rhys Pugh	....	lead designer
Karl Richardson	....	character and prop design
Adrian Smith	....	character and prop design
Alec Studerus	....	additional color artist

Sound Department
Dominic Boucher	....	dialogue recording engineer
Dafydd Jones	....	head of sound
Greg Provan	....	head of sound
Sean Richards	....	supervising sound editor

Visual Effects by
Kevin Bartlett	....	visual effects artist
Daniel Boivin	....	digital compositor
Christopher Callow	....	senior effects artist
Antonin Fisette	....	rigger
Peter Koss	....	digital compositor
Christian Lett	....	grading
Mike Litzenberg	....	motion tracker: Image Metrics
Cale Pugh	....	senior effects artist
Robert Quinn	....	asset supervisor

Camera and Electrical Department
Mostafa Badrian	....	rigger
Ian Hernandez	....	rigger
Maxime Langlois-Legault	....	head rigger: facial shape
Julie Le Roy	....	rigger

Animation Department
Jessica Anderson	....	body character modeler
Jessica Anderson	....	lighting artist
Jean Banville	....	animator
Sacha Beauregard	....	animator
Marc-André Benoit	....	animator
Martin Bergeron	....	animation director
Michel Bergeron	....	layout artist
Steven Bindley	....	lighting lead artist
Olivier Bolduc-Coutu	....	animation editor
Jean-Michel Bourgeois	....	lighting artist
Jean-Michel Bourgeois	....	texture artist
François Brisson	....	senior animation supervisor
Freddy Burgos	....	animator
Mark Carlevaris	....	character modeler
Mark Carlevaris	....	texture artist
Felipe Carpinetti	....	animator
Perrick Chagnon	....	texture artist
Pierrick Chagnon	....	character modeler
Champin Chen	....	animator
Marc Clement	....	animator
Jonathan Cyr	....	lighting artist
Maxime-Raphael Cyr	....	CGI director
Dominic Dauphin	....	animation editor
Kevin Dubeau	....	character head modeler
Benoit Duchesneau	....	character modeler
Benoit Duchesneau	....	texture artist
Erwan Fagard	....	lead texture artist
Erwan Fagard	....	lighting lead artist
Eric Fortin	....	animator
Jonathan Foucher	....	lighting lead artist
George Fronimadis	....	animator
Nicolas Gaffiero	....	character modeler
Nicolas Gaffiero	....	texture artist
Yanik Gamelin	....	animator
Patricia Gaumond	....	character head texture artist
Patricia Gaumond	....	lighting artist
Jean-Francois Gignac	....	animator
Gabriel Giroux-Veilleux	....	animator
Paul Hannan	....	animator
Paul Hannan	....	layout artist
Josh Hardeman	....	facial animator
Steve Jubinville	....	modeler
Sarwar Khan	....	texture artist
Mihail Kunelakis	....	character modeler
Mihail Kunelakis	....	texture artist
Pascal Laflamme	....	layout artist
Catherine Langevin	....	facial texture artist
Maxime Langlois-Legault	....	lead modeler
Joel Le Bourhis	....	lead animator
Ludovic Lebart	....	lighting lead artist
Marc-Antoine Ledoux	....	animator
Annick Limoyo	....	character modeler
Geoffrey Marshall	....	character modeler
Matt Onheiber	....	senior animator
Christophe Paradis	....	animator
Marie-Claude Paradis	....	layout artist
Emmanuel Pelletier	....	layout artist
Patrick Perreault	....	lead rigger
Nicolas Pinet	....	animator
Erin Pomerantz	....	texture artist
Robert Quinn	....	lead texture artist
Bill Rodgers	....	animator
Marco Savignac	....	animator
Frederic Tetrault	....	animator
Gabriel Tremblay-Beauvais	....	character head modeler
Pierre Trudeau	....	animator
Antony Vannapho	....	character modeler
Mohamed Zekri	....	lighting artist
Xin Zhou	....	texture artist

Editorial Department
Victoria James	....	assistant editor
Lucy Lawson-Duckett	....	post production co-ordinator
Alexander Lentjes	....	colorist
Alexander Lentjes	....	post-production supervisor
Janelle McDonald	....	assistant editor

Other crew
Rachel James	....	production accountant
Victoria James	....	production assistant

Production Companies

• Good Story Productions
• Codex Pictures
• POP6

Distributors

• Anchor Bay Entertainment (2013) (Australia) (DVD)
• Codex Pictures

Other Companies

• Aramid Capital Partners  funding
• XLRender  rendering services

Also Known As:

MPAA:

Rated R for strong bloody violence

Runtime:

USA:76 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

USA:R (certificate #46515) | UK:15 | Australia:MA15+

Company:

Good Story Productions

Trivia:

There are no women depicted in the film, not even a feminine computer voice.

Goofs:

Factual errors: The Space Marines are seen using their flamethrower for illumination, which they would not require as part of their genetic improvements is the ability to see in complete darkness.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Space Marine:Brother Nidon, report to the Chapel! Guard the Codex!
Nidon:I must protect the relic! In the Emperor's holy name! I must protect the relic...

A great start

Firstly I have to confess to being a Warhammer 40K fan. This film was made for fans, the setting exposition is minimal. I also believe it was made on a shoestring budget. I was therefore nervous that the result would be awful – but it's actually a great 70 minutes. I've watched this film once on my own and my son has had it on twice now. I found myself entertained - all three times. That's three more times than either the Transformers movies I sat through which had x100+ the budget.

The CGI was mostly fine – only a couple of scenes looked rushed. I think the story perfectly fitted the 70 minutes the makers had to tell it. The opening act set the scene and built the tension well. In my opinion the fight scenes were well directed and choreographed. The final battle was particularly good and conclusion affecting.

Identifying the characters was difficult with helmets - but it not obvious how that could be addressed without going sans helmet... Which they did fairly often. The armours were all different, so it is visually possible.

At the time of writing the film is only available as a collector's edition at about £25. However, that's about the same money as a family trip to the cinema, so in those terms I judge it worth the money. I guess it will be about £12 in the spring, so I hope many more 40K fans buy then. I really hope the producers/investors see a great return and we see more 40K films.

This is a positive start to seeing the 40K universe in film.