This time, is it the right one? Legendary and Hasbro combine for a Magic film

The collecting cards game could finally give birth to a cinematatic universe on small and large screen.

Here, news from the cinema adaptation of Magic: the assembly. According to Variety, Hasbro (the owner of Wizards of the Coast, which has published the game since 1993) and the Legendary studio (Godzilla,, Dune) could finally give birth to an adapted film of the most famous collecting card games. A “live action film” and a “television universe”, according to Mary Parent, the owner of production at Legendary, cited by Variety: “We flattered to take care of unique and adored franchises, and no deductible responds better to this definition than that of Magic: the assembly. Alongside the wonderful Hasbro team, we can’t wait to create a multimedia universe that can excite longtime fans and attract a wave of new ones. “

The thing is that before being a particularly large and delusional fantasy universe, Magic is above all a (good) game system where each player builds his own pack of cards (more or less rare, more or less powerful ) made up of spells and magic objects to puree his opponents. The world of Magic is supposed to be populated by “Planeswalkers”, wizards capable of going from universe to universe in order to increase their power. And, in recent years, Magic has mainly opened Magic to other licenses: we have seen officials of official cards TransformersMarvel, Street FighteR, Rings,, Fallout,, Assassin’s Creed… and even Jurassic Worldor Warhammer 40,000 (Including a TV series with Henry Cavill is in development at Amazon), without forgetting the future sets dedicated to Spider-Man and Final Fantasy. In short, multimedia in multimedia. Universes that overlap, pile up, mix like cards in a deck. Will the Hasbro/Legendary alliance degrease all that and finally give a Magic film?

We use the word “finally”, not because we are very looking forward to seeing that (the film Dungeons & Dragons: The honor of thievesadaptation of the famous role play also owned by Hasbro/Wizards, completely left us with marble), but because it is a real Arlesian: we are talking about a cinema version of Magic since at least 2008. At the time, Universal had to produce a film, but nothing was done. In 2014, Simon Kinberg (X-Men: Dark Phoenix) had to supervise a film for Fox, on which Bryan Cogman (Game of Thrones) has worked for a while. White cabbage too. In 2019, Netflix announced an animated series, then a live action film in 2020, but Mana Death On this side too. That said, Hasbro’s announcement does not necessarily cancel the animated serial project Netflix -and the success of the Arcane series, adapted from the video game League of Legends but very magic in mind, gives a little bit of Hope in the potential of the project.

Arcane is the most expensive animated series in the whole history of television

It is therefore again a project to follow, especially since no creative name (screenwriter, director …) was announced.

But here is a small vintage bonus to wait: we cannot resist the pleasure of sharing this artifact arose from the past to you. The (imaginary) poster of the film Magic, fantasized by the American inquest games around 1998. A project that is not based on anything other than the imagination of journalists, who offered Brad Pitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jim Carrey, Arnold Schwarzenegger in the casting, with SFX from Digital Domain (the box by James Cameron) and songs from *Nsync (Le Boys Band by Justin Timberlake) in the credits… and Ridley Scott (before Gladiator) to the realization. Let us insist that it was a parody.