Terry Matalas Will Reshuffle Netflix’s Magic: The Gathering Present

In 2019, information broke that the Russo brothers have been trying to adapt Wizards of the Coast’s Magic: The Gathering card sport into an animated sequence for Netflix. Just a few years later, a brand new inventive workforce that includes Jeff Kline changed the Russos, Brandon Routh was solid as main character Gideon Jura, after which….nothing. Making TV exhibits takes time, however you wouldn’t be improper in questioning the place it’s been.

Excellent news: it nonetheless exists, and actually Netflix re-announced the sequence throughout its Geeked Week occasion. As a substitute of the Russos, the very busy Terry Matalas (of Star Trek: Picard and Vision Quest fame) is now taking the reigns as showrunner and an government producer alongside co-EP Patrick Osborne (Feast). In a statement, Matalas known as it “an absolute dream collaboration with Netflix, Hasbro Leisure, Wizards of the Coast, and the good Patrick Osborne to carry the numerous worlds of Magic to streaming.”

So Kline’s Routh-starring model is totally carried out. Routh himself recently 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 could present newcomers “what thousands and thousands of followers who play day-after-day already know: Magic is he final storytelling sandbox. […] It’s also a strong reminder that it doesn’t matter what tradition, nation, or airplane of existence you come from, we will all unite and grow to be heroes collectively.”

The Magic sequence is at the moment in manufacturing, and extra details about it is going to be revealed over time.