In yet more gaming-movie news for today, Hollywood Reporter has revealed that 20th Century Fox has acquired rights to the super popular fantasy trading card game Magic: The Gathering, from brand owner Hasbro.<\/p>\n
This means that a Magic: The Gathering movie project will likely be in the works, and Hollywood Reporter says it will be a series on the scale of Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings.<\/p>\n
Fox’s writer-producer Simon Kinberg (X-Men, Fantastic Four, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Sherlock Holmes, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter) will head up the movie adaptation, and has been named as “franchise engineer” for the movie series.<\/p>\n
That’s pretty much it for details at this stage, as any potential movie will be in very early planning stages.<\/p>\n
Still, this sounds quite exciting, especially if they can live of up to the lofty claims of Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings scale production epics.<\/p>\n
There is a huge wealth of lore, creatures, and settings that could be used for the movie – let’s hope Simon Kinberg has a good imagination.<\/p>\n
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