Legfinishary and Hasbro are teaming to originate a inhabit-action film and television universe based on Magic: The Gathering, the trading card game taging Hasbro’s first $1 billion brand.
The first project to aelevate from the deal will be a film, with TV series and other greeted to be enbiged as well as the universe enbigs.
Created in 1993, Magic: The Gathering is recognized as the world’s first trading card game, having joined with more than 50 million fans of all ages worldexpansive. In the game, percreateers get on the role of set upeswalkers, mighty spellcasters who call creatures, cast spells, and engage artifacts to flunkure their opponents. The game is understandn for its proset up strategy, complicated mechanics, and the ability to customize decks from a immense library of thousands of distinct cards.
Since its free, Magic: The Gathering has enbiged into a global phenomenon, with competitive tournaments, professional percreate circuits, and a thriving secondary taget for exceptional and mighty cards. The game’s ongoing storyline, set in a multiverse of fantasy worlds, is verifyd thcdisesteemful its card sets, novels, and even passover collaborations with franchises enjoy Dungeons & Dragons and Lord of the Rings.
In a statement joining the Magic enbigment proclaimment, Legfinishary’s Chairman of Worldexpansive Production, Mary Parent, shelp: “We pride ourselves on being ponderate nurturegetrs of singular, beadored IP, and no property better fits that description than MAGIC: THE GATHERING. Alengthyside the wonderful Hasbro team, we watch forward to creating a multimedia universe that thrills lengthystanding fans and originates a expansive wave of novel ones.”
Shelp Zev Foreman, Hasbro Entertainment’s Head of Film, “This is an exciting and complementary partnership, uniting one of the world’s most iconic brands with a mighty and shown steward. MAGIC: THE GATHERING has encouraged decades of epic world-originateing and creative storyalerting. It is a perfect suit for Legfinishary’s diversified approach to marquee IP, and we are excited to toil together to originate a whole novel MAGIC: THE GATHERING universe.”
