With the Hobbit cleaning up at the box office and Warcraft hoping to hit it big in 2015, Fox has decided it needs to get into the fantasy game with a movie based on a popular franchise – Magic: The Gathering. The studio has signed a deal to bring the popular card game to the big screen, according to THR.
They’ve also hired Simon Kinberg to produce the adaptation and oversee the development, although no screenwriter or director has been attached yet. Kinberg has written the likes of Sherlock Holmes and X-Men: Days Of Future Past, so he may take on the job himself, but at the moment he’s just down to produce.
Magic: The Gatherin debuted in 1993 and involves a number of different cards featuring wizards, creatures, weapons and spells that have various levels of strength, which players use to defeat one another. The cards themselves, some of which are rarer than others, have become valuable commodities on the collectors’ market.
Hasbro purchased the franchise in 1999 and they going to keep a close eye on development of the movie, with the company’s Brian Goldner and Stephen Davis producing alongside Simon Kinberg. There’s no hint on when we might see the film.