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

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

Excellent news: it nonetheless exists, and in reality Netflix re-announced the collection 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 govt 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 sensible Patrick Osborne to convey the numerous worlds of Magic to streaming.”

So Kline’s Routh-starring model is absolutely finished. 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 collection shall be about, however Matalas teased it will present newcomers “what hundreds of thousands of followers who play each day already know: Magic is he final storytelling sandbox. […] Additionally it is a strong reminder that it doesn’t matter what tradition, nation, or aircraft of existence you come from, we will all unite and develop into heroes collectively.”

The Magic collection is at the moment in manufacturing, and extra details about it will likely be revealed over time.