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Dan Abnett

Dan Abnett

Writer, also actor · Born October 12, 1965 (61) · England, UK

Writers Guild Award nominee

Daniel P. Abnett (/ˈæbnɪt/ AB-nit; born 12 October 1965) is an English comic book writer and novelist. He has been a frequent collaborator with fellow writer Andy Lanning, and has worked on books for both Marvel Comics, and their UK imprint, Marvel UK, since the 1990s, and also 2000 AD. He has also contributed to DC Comics titles, and his Warhammer Fantasy and Warhammer 40,000 novels and graphic novels for Games Workshop's Black Library now run to several dozen titles and have sold over two million copies. In 2009 he released his first original fiction novels through Angry Robot books. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dan Abnett, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Biography from TMDB.

Born
October 12, 1965 (61)
From
England, UK
Works as
Writer, also actor
Titles
11 on MovieCove · 12 credits in all

What are Dan Abnett's films like?

Across their 5 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Bonds and Morality.

What they feel like to watch

their average across 4 films
ToneFeelDemandtheir average · filled zone: the category

A split, not a type: Light 3 · Serious 0 · Dark 1

Grounded 0 · Stylized 1 · Heightened 3

A split, not a type: Gentle 1 · Charged 1 · Intense 2

A split, not a type: Steady 2 · Shifting 1 · Whiplash 1

A split, not a type: Straight-faced 1 · Some laughs 1 · Funny 2

A split, not a type: Slow burn 1 · Even-paced 1 · Relentless 2

Casual 0 · Engaged 3 · Full focus 1

Resolved 4 · Open-ended 0 · Ambiguous 0

Moods and endings

endings are an aggregate; no title is named

Dominant moods · mentions across their titles

Thrilling
4
Joyful
3
Tense
2
Contemplative
1
Dread
1
Other
3

How their films end

  • Happy2
  • Bittersweet3

AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.

Where can I watch Dan Abnett's films?

As of October 24, 2026, 10 of their 11 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, on Disney+ (10).

Subscription and free streaming for Dan Abnett's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.

Filmography

12 credits, 11 with a MovieCove page; 1 appearance as themselves is hidden until asked for.

Career shape

A full career of 11 titles, 10 of them dated from 2010 to 2023.

By role

only this rolewith another role
Writing5 of 11: 5 only writing, 0 with another roleOther crew6 of 11: 6 only other crew, 0 with another role · typical Midcredits score82nd

By decade

2010s4 · crew2020s6 · crew

Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.

Awards

Nominated for a Writers Guild Award in 2015, Outstanding Achievement in Videogame Writing.

Major bodies only: the Oscars, Primetime Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Screen Actors Guild Awards are named; Cannes, Venice, the Berlinale, Sundance, the directors', writers' and producers' guilds, the Grammys, Critics Choice and the Independent Spirit Awards count as other major bodies. Festival and regional prizes are not counted. Source: IMDb.

How do Dan Abnett's films land?

Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 85th percentile, the median of all 7; across a limited sample of 4 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 87th percentile for acclaim.

Acclaim · how much people like their films

87thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 4

Approval · how many liked their films

90thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 4

Reach · how many have seen their films

79thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 4

Midcredits score across 11 titles, by percentile

  • 75th and up7
  • 50th to 74th2
  • 25th to 49th2

Reviewers score the dialogue 60/100 and the plot and story 48/100 in their films, across 4 reviewed titles. The element that speaks to their work as a writer.

Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.

Who does Dan Abnett work with?

People who share at least 2 of Dan Abnett's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Andy Lanning shares the most, 3.

Directors

Writers

Actors

Producers