It certainly puts the production of Ultramarines to shame when one bloke can do all this. I’m hoping the story is better than in Ultramarines, as the trailer implies. Even though Ultra’ had Dan Abnett writing the story and script, there still wasn’t much of a story there, nothing you could really say the movie was about.
It was like you’re just watching a series of events where things are just ‘happening’, with the marines repeating over, and over and over again, ‘We march for Macragge, and we know no fear!’
I couldn’t say after watching it that it was a really good story. Even Space Marine the game had a better story that I’m hoping there’s a sequel to (here’s hoping Captain Titus will be in Terminator armour, with a chainfist! lol). A film doesn’t need to have to be set up for a sequel, but after watching Ultramarines, I’m not really interested in the characters to want to see another one.

It’s hard to speculate on just a trailer, but by telling a story from the perspective of a human in the 40K universe (albeit an Inquisitor in power armour) as a main character with other humans that we glimpse in the trailer, it gives you something to contrast against the massive marines, which was needed in the Ultra’ movie, especially if you’re new to 40K and don’t know they’re over 7ft tall. To see a marine should be an awesome sight; you need to see that they are huge armoured badasses who kick ass. When they’re all lumped together, you can’t tell that at all .
Although Ultramarines the Movie is made for fans and they didn’t need to tell us what marines were, I think it was the wrong tack to take with the first 40K film. Everyone who loves marines, loves reading about the origins of them-that’s why the Horus Heresy novels exist and are continually being written. So they should have gone about things with that in mind and had some real peril in there; trials by fire, new recruits going through the selection and training processes and surgery that we’ve read about for years and perhaps follow one recruits’ journey into becoming a marine. Perhaps it could have followed a marine being created at the time of the Great Crusade, fighting alongside the Emperor to be reunited with his primarch and then follow him as he fights in the Horus Heresy; maybe over several films.
They did have a budget which shows in the film, but it was still a missed opportunity for what they could have done as the first foray into movies, and with a better story.

Story is paramount in any decent film. Sure, there are films where you just wanna watch one guy like Rambo shoot every bad guy and blow shit up. But when you have all the rich background of 40K to draw upon, they could’ve come up with something better than going on a random mission and rescuing two Imperial Fists and book, and shouting ‘We march for Macragge, and we shall know no fear!’ over and over and over again.

Looking at the Lord Inquisitor trailer, GW and Codex Pictures must be kicking themselves and stabbing their eyes out after seeing how great it looks (minus the American voices). This looks more worthy of the voice talent Codex Pictures paid for in the Ultra’ movie; it certainly has the look of a real feature film.

I hope this guy who made it and the dudes who help him do really well out of this, and hope against hope that GW will hire him to create the next ‘proper’ 40K movie, instead of stopping his movie being shown.
He should (if not already) get on the Kickstarter website and get some funding for all his hard work-unless that would interfere with his disclaimer in the trailer that it’s a fan movie, and as such it should not be funded; I dunno if that’s how that works.
Well done to him anyway, I really can’t wait to see it!

Well I waited over 20 years for a proper 40K film since first discovering 40K, so I can wait another two for something that looks this good. I think… Still wanna see it right now lol.