On an industrial estate in Nottingham, hidden away behind multiple flights of stairs and a winding maze of corridors, in a room no bigger than a bathroom, a British games publisher is busy working on board game adaptations of some of Hollywood's biggest hits.
It isn’t River Horse founder Alessio Cavatore’s first brush with the silver screen. For more than a decade, he contributed to Games Workshop’s Warhammer, Warhammer 40,000 and Lord of the Rings miniature wargames – with the latter earning him an on-screen cameo during the climactic battle of Peter Jackson’s 2003 finale The Return of the King. You can also find him (alongside fellow designers Alan Perry, Michael Perry and Brian Nelson) dressed as a Rohirrim on the base of the miniature title’s War Mûmak of Harad model – albeit in a flatter, deader form.