Get your cards and spells ready, Magic fans. Legendary Entertainment and Hasbro Entertainment are teaming up to bring the best-selling card game Magic: The Gathering to life in an expansive film and TV universe.
Magic: The Gathering was created in 1993 and became a worldwide sensation. Even over 30 years later, it is still widely popular with competitive tournaments and championships for dedicated players as well as a collecting market of popular and rare cards.
The card game sees players become planeswalkers, a group of mages and spellcasters who use all manner of magic to protect the world and defeat their enemies. The franchise has expanded into novels, comics and video games, but this will mark the first time it will have been adapted into a film and TV series, though Netflix previously tried developing a live-action and animated series.
A Magic: The Gathering feature film will be the first project to be developed before expanding into several TV series and other media. Legendary chairman Mary Parent said of the upcoming universe “We pride ourselves on being thoughtful caretakers of singular, beloved IP, and no property better fits that description than Magic: The Gathering. Alongside the fantastic Hasbro team, we look forward to creating a multimedia universe that thrills longstanding fans and creates a broad wave of new ones.”
“This is an exciting and complementary partnership, uniting one of the world’s most iconic brands with a powerful and proven steward,” Hasbro’s Head of Film Zev Foreman stated. “Magic: The Gathering has inspired decades of epic world-building and creative storytelling. It is a perfect match for Legendary’s diversified approach to marquee IP, and we are excited to work together to build a whole new Magic: The Gathering universe.”
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