Hasbro Leisure and Legendary Leisure have joined forces to deliver Magic: The Gathering to the massive and small screens. The pair have signed a licensing deal to create “a live-action characteristic movie and tv universe” impressed by the cardboard recreation. First up will probably be a film, with different media to comply with, however that is all that is been revealed to this point.
Longtime MTG followers would possibly really feel skeptical about this announcement, as a result of this is not the primary time the mental property has been promised some sort of movie or tv adaptation. The cardboard recreation’s Fandom lists lots of the proposed film tasks through the years. First up was a plan for a number of motion pictures with Common all the way in which again in 2008, which by no means yielded something. Then Hasbro made an at a film with Twentieth Century Fox in 2014, however that was additionally by no means heard from once more. Netflix has additionally been connected to 2 completely different rumored Magic tasks, but it surely looks like the streamer’s animated TV collection would possibly actually come to go, with a publish on Tudum from September 2024 that it is actually taking place and in manufacturing.
Legendary Leisure has had a number of tasks drawing on geek tradition, often bringing an enormous finances and a darkish edge to their work. Most not too long ago the studio labored on Dune and Dune: Half Two, and it additionally was concerned in Christopher Nolan’s tackle Batman in The Darkish Knight motion pictures in addition to the Warcraft film. MTG has loads of lore to attract on, so there’s loads of fodder for a cinematic universe. Here is hoping the producers and expertise have the understanding to show all that potential into film.