David Bridges
In 2019, information broke that the Russo brothers had been seeking to adapt Wizards of the Coast’s Magic: The Gathering card sport into an animated sequence for Netflix. A couple of years later, a brand new inventive workforce that includes Jeff Kline changed the Russos, Brandon Routh was forged as main character Gideon Jura, after which….nothing. Making TV exhibits takes time, however you wouldn’t be fallacious in questioning the place it’s been.
Excellent news: it nonetheless exists, and in reality Netflix re-announced the sequence throughout its Geeked Week occasion. As an alternative of the Russos, the very busy Terry Matalas (of Star Trek: Picard and Imaginative and prescient Quest fame) is now taking the reigns as showrunner and an govt producer alongside co-EP Patrick Osborne (Feast). In an announcement, Matalas known as it “an absolute dream collaboration with Netflix, Hasbro Leisure, Wizards of the Coast, and the sensible Patrick Osborne to deliver the numerous worlds of Magic to streaming.”
So Kline’s Routh-starring model is absolutely achieved. Routh himself lately revealed this, a lot to the panic of Magic followers who thought it’d been quietly canceled. It’s unknown what this new iteration of the sequence might be about, however Matalas teased it might present newcomers “what tens of millions of followers who play on daily basis already know: Magic is he final storytelling sandbox. […] Additionally it is a robust reminder that it doesn’t matter what tradition, nation, or aircraft of existence you come from, we will all unite and turn out to be heroes collectively.”
The Magic sequence is presently in manufacturing, and extra details about it is going to be revealed over time.
Daniel Mercer
Brandon Fletcher
