A Magic The Gathering Movie & TV Universe Is Officially In The Works

Hasbro and Legendary Entertainment have announced that they are teaming up for a cinematic universe based on Magic The Gathering that will span across movies and TV series (via Deadline). However, the movies are being planned first.

Wizards Of The Coast originally launched Magic The Gathering in 1993 as the world’s first trading card game. It became a worldwide hit before Hasbro acquired Wizards of the Coast in 1999, and now boasts millions of players around the world.

Hasbro Entertainment’s head of film Zev Foreman, said:

“This is an exciting and complementary partnership, uniting one of the world’s most iconic brands with a powerful and proven steward. Magic: The Gathering has inspired decades of epic world-building and creative storytelling. It is a perfect match for Legendary’s diversified approach to marquee IP, and we are excited to work together to build a whole new Magic: The Gathering universe.”

Mary Parent, Legendary’s chairman of worldwide production, said:

“We pride ourselves on being thoughtful caretakers of singular, beloved IP, and no property better fits that description than Magic: The Gathering. Alongside the fantastic Hasbro team, we look forward to creating a multimedia universe that thrills longstanding fans and creates a broad wave of new ones.”

Legendary is best known for making many movie franchises, including the MonsterVerse cinematic universe (which includes the recent western Godzilla and Kong movies) and the Dune franchise adaptations (both the movies and the Dune Prophecy TV series), as well as the upcoming A Minecraft Movie coming in April 2025.

There is also currently a Magic The Gathering animated series from showrunner Terry Matalas, which is now in production at Netflix. It’s currently unknown if this will be part of the same universe.