Magic: The Gathering is getting a film adaptation!
Hasbro is engaged on a universe primarily based on the beloved card sport, teaming up with Legendary Leisure to develop a movie and TV franchise, starting with the film, by way of THR.
The corporate Wizards of the Coast launched Magic: The Gathering in 1993 because the world’s first buying and selling card sport. It turned a world hit within the ’90s, spawning conventions world wide. Hasbro acquired Wizards of the Coast in 1999, and says the sport has reached 50 million gamers.
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“We pleasure ourselves on being considerate caretakers of singular, beloved IP, and no property higher suits that description than Magic: The Gathering,” mentioned Legendary’s chairman of worldwide manufacturing. “Alongside the unbelievable Hasbro workforce, we look ahead to making a multimedia universe that thrills longstanding followers and creates a broad wave of recent ones.”
Legendary has helped to show Godzilla vs Kong and Dune into franchises, as properly asEnola Holmes.
“That is an thrilling and complementary partnership, uniting one of many world’s most iconic manufacturers with a robust and confirmed steward,” mentioned Hasbro movie head Zev Foreman in a press release.
“Magic: The Gathering has impressed many years of epic world-building and artistic storytelling. It’s a excellent match for Legendary’s diversified strategy to marquee IP, and we’re excited to work collectively to construct an entire new Magic: The Gathering universe.”
Years in the past, there was additionally information a couple of Magic: The Gathering TV present!