Avengers: Endgame Directors Are Making A Magic: The Gathering Anime For Netflix

Having directed Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame and the last two Captain America films, the Russo brothers are looking to bring a new lore to life: Magic: The Gathering.

The Russo brothers–Joe and Anthony–will be creating a new series that focuses on a new Planeswalker, the legendary spellcasters that form the basis of Magic: The Gathering‘s lore.

Netflix aren’t messing around with the writing team, either: along with the Russo brothers, Henry Gilroy (Star Wars: Rebels, The Clone Wars) and Jose Molina (The Tick) will be heading up the writing, while Isaac Krauss and Mike Larocca will serve as executive producers.

Not much else is known at this stage, beyond the fact that Chandra Nalaar, a human planeswalker who specialises with fire (and, in the world of M:TG, represents the Red playstyle and mages). Being an anime and not a live-action affair should make it easier to bring M:TG to life, irrespective of what plane the animated series takes place in. (The official lore has over 30 natural and artificial planes, ranging from Shandalar, the setting of MicroProse’s M:TG adaptation, to Ravnica, the focus of the recently released War of the Spark set.)

“We have been huge fans and players of Magic: The Gathering for as long as it has been around, so being able to help bring these stories to life through animation is a true passion project for us,” the Russo brothers said in a release.


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