Hasbro has introduced it can work to convey Magic: The Gathering to screens all over the place.
The Hollywood Reporter says Hasbro is working with Legendary Leisure to create a shared Magic: The Gathering universe that may embody each films and TV reveals, with the film the primary precedence.
“We satisfaction ourselves on being considerate caretakers of singular, beloved IP, and no property higher suits that description than Magic: The Gathering,” says Legendary’s chairman of worldwide manufacturing. The studio is behind such movies as Dune and the western Godzilla films like Godzilla vs Kong, and Detective Pikachu.
Whereas it’s not completely clear, primarily based on the report it sounds just like the film and TV diversifications at Legendary are going to be unrelated to the Magic: The Gathering animated sequence introduced for Netflix. Although it might additionally imply that plans have modified and the animated sequence is now a part of this bigger shared universe.
Magic: The Gathering is a card recreation created by Wizards of the Coast in 1993 and has since grown to grow to be some of the widespread buying and selling card video games on this planet. Wizards of the Coast was acquired by Hasbro in 1999.
Hasbro isn’t any stranger to creating film diversifications of its merchandise, which vary from G.I. Joe, Transformers, and Dungeons and Dragons. The firm has a number of initiatives already within the works together with new G.I. Joe films, a brand new Energy Rangers movie, and even a Beyblade film.
Matt Kim is IGN’s Senior Options Editor.