One of its actors confirms that the project is dead.
Netflix has been betting big on licensing animated series for some time now. In recent years it has brought us series like Castlevania, Tekken, and, more recently, even Exploding Kittens. A few years ago, the streaming service announced that they would release an animated series of Magic: The Gathering produced by the directors of Avengers: Endgame.
The announcement dates back to 2019 and it was expected that the series would arrive on the platform in 2022. In the meantime, we had the pandemic, which took away many projects, and the restructuring of the entire animation department of Netflix. But officially nothing more was said about Magic: The Gathering until Brandon Routh spoke about the subject while promoting Ick, his new film.
“I'm not sure. I dubbed it. As far as I know, no one has put out a press release or anything, but it looks like it’s not happening,” Routh told Collider about the animated series. “It’s not even new, I don’t know why it’s resurfacing now.”
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Routh would have voiced Gideon Jura, one of the franchise’s most popular heroes. And everything seems to indicate that the animated series was another silent victim of Netflix, like many of its other animated projects.
Joe and Anthony Russo were set to executive produce, while Henry Gilroy and Jose Molina were set to write the script. At some point, there were creative disagreements and the core team changed, with Jeff Kline taking over as the new executive producer and bringing in a new group of creators.
It seems that Magic adaptations are a bit cursed because the movie that was in the works at 20th Century Fox also failed to make it after Disney acquired it in 2019. Let’s hope the third time is the right one.