The playing cards are again on the desk.
Netflix is taking one other shot at an animated sequence primarily based on Magic: The Gathering, the massively standard role-playing sport. The streamer first picked up a sequence primarily based on the sport in 2019, with Joe and Anthony Russo as showrunners.
The Russo brothers later departed the sequence over artistic variations, and Jeff Klein (Transformers: Prime) took the reins. Brandon Routh was set to play in one of many lead voice roles, however that iteration of the present finally fell by the wayside. Routh mentioned in an interview on the Toronto Worldwide Movie Pageant that the present is “apparently not occurring”; whereas that’s true for the model he labored on, Netflix is now forging forward with a brand new model.
The brand new sequence, which is about to start out manufacturing quickly, can be led by showrunner Terry Matalas (Star Trek: Picard, Disney+’s upcoming Imaginative and prescient). As with earlier variations of the sequence, the present comes from Hasbro Leisure and Wizards of the Coast, which developed and launched the sport.
Different particulars on Magic: The Gathering are scant for the time being. The Russo and Klein variations of the present had been to deal with the sport’s Planeswalkers characters in addition to introducing new ones.
Along with Picard, for which he earned a Writers Guild of America Award nomination this yr, Matalas’ credit as a author and producer embody The CW’s Nikita, CBS’ 2010s MacGyver reboot and Syfy’s 12 Monkeys. He’s repped by CAA and Nameless Content material.