The Gathering Is Tapping in For a New Film

Hasbro already introduced one huge Wizards of the Coast recreation to the massive display lately with the perpetually underappreciated Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Amongst Thieves—however there may be, in fact, another wildly popular game full of lore to remodel into sweeping transmedia adventures at WOTC. And now, it’s taking the leap too, as soon as it provides its deck a shuffle.

This afternoon Hasbro introduced that it was teaming up with Legendary Leisure to develop a live-action Magic: The Gathering film. “That is an thrilling and complementary partnership, uniting one of many world’s most iconic manufacturers with a robust and confirmed steward,” Hasbro’s head of movie, Zev Foreman, stated in a press assertion. “Magic: The Gathering has impressed a long time of epic world-building and inventive storytelling. It’s a good match for Legendary’s diversified strategy to marquee IP, and we’re excited to work collectively to construct a complete new Magic: The Gathering universe.”

In line with the press launch, plans for the partnership will start with a film, however have the potential to increase to live-action tv sequence and “different content material” ought to issues go properly. Little is thought about simply how Legendary will strategy adapting Magic—whether or not we’re in for one thing meta concerning the act of taking part in the legendary TGC or we’re going to be following notable Magic characters just like the dimension-hopping Planeswalkers as they sling spells and face grand threats stays to be seen.

The one certainty for the time being is that Hasbro and Legendary’s plans don’t change the deal the toy maker has already established with Netflix, the place it’s creating an animated Magic series for the streamer with Star Trek: Picard‘s Terry Matalas. Funnily sufficient, it’s not the primary information merchandise the place Legendary has stepped into one thing Netflix had cooking lately, with the re-confirmation this week that the studio would develop the live-action Cellular Go well with Gundam film that had beforehand been stuck in development limbo at Netflix for a number of years.

We’ll deliver you extra on Hasbro and Legendary’s plans for Magic as and after we study them.

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