8mo ago

'Magic: The Gathering' Movie and TV Universe Underway

Strategy card game "Magic: The Gathering" will get big film and TV adaptations in a new partnership from Legendary Entertainment and Hasbro.

8mo ago

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If they do it well, it could be amazing. There are a lot of really cool stories to be told, and it's a setting that would give them a lot of creative freedom.
But that's a fucking gargantuan 'if'.
What even is the mtg lore anymore? The game is the tcg equivalent of Fortnite now
- its all over the place, but who says they have to adapt modern mtg story lines?
  the weatherlight saga would make for a dope tv series or a couple of movies.
  the gatewatch stuff up to war of the spark is mtgs avengers
  the whole yawgmoth/phyrexia/fall of mirrodin stuff spans aeons and touches on multiple arcs in the lore
  some planes like eldrain (sinister fairy tails) or the newer kamigawa (cgberpunk) would be a great backdrop for one off movies.
  
  I mean more in a sense that technically the reason for such a show and movies would be to get people into the game right? But when they get to the game they're going to just see negan going up against rainbow dash or some shit and they're just going to bounce right off.
- I want to see Godzilla and Dr. Who fighting Eldrazi.
Ugh.
I'm just here for the merfolk.
- I tap some blue and cast "crush all your hopes and dreams"

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