{"id":1117289,"date":"2026-01-31T01:42:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T01:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/?p=520568"},"modified":"2026-01-31T01:42:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T01:42:27","slug":"magic-the-gathering-movie-greenlit-from-dune-and-dark-knight-studio-legendary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/magic-the-gathering-movie-greenlit-from-dune-and-dark-knight-studio-legendary\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic: The Gathering movie greenlit from Dune and Dark Knight studio Legendary"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Art from Magic: The Gathering's upcoming Aetherdrift set<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Legendary Entertainment and Hasbro Entertainment announced in a joint news release on Thursday that they have reached a deal licensing Magic: The Gathering<\/a><\/em> to Legendary for development into \u201ca live-action feature film and television universe,\u201d starting with an initial planned movie, then expanding to other media. Legendary is the studio behind IP-derived movies like Christopher Nolan\u2019s The Dark Knight<\/em><\/a>, Denis Villeneuve\u2019s Dune<\/a><\/em> and Dune: Part Two<\/a><\/em>, and a recent run of Godzilla and King Kong movies, including Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

There were no initial details about what area of Magic<\/em> the studio might want to explore, or who would be involved with the production. The initial news release just promised \u201ca multimedia universe that thrills longstanding fans and creates a broad wave of new ones.\u201d But looking at Legendary\u2019s other output \u2014\u00a0Christopher Nolan\u2019s Interstellar<\/a><\/em> and Inception<\/a><\/em>, the 2016 Warcraft <\/em>movie<\/a>, Zack Snyder\u2019s Man of Steel<\/a><\/em> and Watchmen<\/em>, Pok\u00e9mon: Detective Pikachu<\/a><\/em>, and a lot more \u2014 at least suggests the specific dark, somber tone and blockbuster scope that the company might bring to the material.<\/p>\n

The news release notes that Hasbro has also licensed Magic: The Gathering<\/em> to Netflix for the previously reported (and recently revived)<\/a> upcoming animated TV series, which suggests this new deal hasn\u2019t canceled or overwritten the old one. Presumably, Legendary\u2019s planned Magic <\/em>universe won\u2019t intersect with Netflix\u2019s version at all.<\/p>\n

The deal is part of a current Hasbro push to get its properties into the entertainment world. As the news release notes, \u201cHasbro Entertainment recently announced deals with Sony\u2019s TriStar Pictures and Sony Pictures Television to re-imagine Clue<\/em> across film and television, a deal with Margot Robbie\u2019s LuckyChap and Lionsgate to produce a film based on Monopoly, <\/em>and a deal with The CW to produce game shows based on Trivial Pursuit<\/em> and Scrabble<\/em>, which premiered this past fall.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Art from Magic: The Gathering's upcoming Aetherdrift set Legendary Entertainment and Hasbro Entertainment announced in a joint news release on Thursday that they have reached a deal licensing Magic: The Gathering to Legendary for development into \u201ca live-action feature film and television universe,\u201d starting with an initial planned movie, then expanding to other media. Legendary is the studio behind IP-derived movies like Christopher Nolan\u2019s The Dark Knight, Denis Villeneuve\u2019s Dune and Dune: Part Two, and a recent run of Godzilla and King Kong movies, including Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire. There were no initial details about what area of Magic the studio might want to explore, or who would be involved with the production. The initial news release just promised \u201ca multimedia universe that…<\/p>\n

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