A perfect property to be adapted to film. Wizards has slowly built a cast of recognizable characters to the game over the last few years, and there is a huge swath of worlds on which to set and tell a story of the Planeswalkers.
On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 11:24:38 AM UTC-5, cwpreston wrote: > > > http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/fox-bring-magic-gathering-big-670529 > > Fox to Bring 'Magic: The Gathering' to the Big Screen (Exclusive) > [image: Magic: The Gathering Cards - H 2014] > > AP Photo/Gino Domenico > > 'Magic: The Gathering' cards > > *Magic: The Gathering* is headed to the big screen. > > 20th Century Fox has closed a deal to acquire the screen rights to the > hugely popular fantasy card game from Hasbro and will develop the property > with an eye to launch a massive franchise on the scale of *Harry Potter * > and* The Lord of the Rings.* > > The studio has enlisted *Simon Kinberg*, the Fox-based writer-producer > who is also helping shepherd the *X-Men *and* Fantastic Four *universes > at the studio, to produce the adaptation. Kinberg will also act as the > franchise's engineer -- or supreme sorcerer, if you will -- overseeing the > development of the movie series in concert with Hasbro execs. > > *STORY: Ridley Scott, Simon Kinberg, Mark Gordon to Remake 'Murder on the > Orient Express' for Fox > <http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ridley-scott-simon-kinberg-remake-665493>* > > *Magic* was introduced in 1993 by Wizards of the Coast, a company > involved in the making of role-playing games that soon found itself at the > forefront of the collectible-trading-card-game movement. > > *Magic* involves cards with a host of wizards and creatures, weapons and > spells that players use to defeat each other. Cards vary in strength, and > some are rarer than others. (The rare ones also became hugely valuable.) > > The game swept comic book shops and schools in the 1990s, and tournaments > were organized. The popularity of the game is such that tournaments are now > held worldwide. > > Others companies followed Wizards of the Coast, which was bought by Hasbro > in 1999, by acquiring licenses and creating card gamed based on properties > such as *Star Wars *and* Pokemon*. > > Execs *Kira Goldberg *and* Ryan Jones *were instrumental in the > acquisition and will shepherd the films for Fox. *Daniel Persitz* will > oversee for Hasbro. > > Hasbro CEO* Brian Goldner *and* Stephen** Davis *and Wizards of the Coast > president* Greg Leeds *will act in production capacities.* Aditya Sood * > and* Josh Feldman*, Kinberg's key execs at his Genre Films production > shingle, will also act as executive producers on the movie. > > *Email: [email protected] <javascript:>* > *Twitter: @borys_kit* > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Unique Geek" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
