ಠ_ಠ Magic: The Movie

[mini1337s]

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/fox-bring-magic-gathering-big-670529?mobile_redirect=false

Better have Nicholas Cage, that's all I'm saying.

[Megadeus]

I'm ready to see this crash and burn

[EpicLevelCommoner]

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EDIT: This is going to be better. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2553096/)

[thecrav]

I hope they get Tyler Perry to help.

[Nihil Credo]

I don't envy the guy tasked with turning a fucking card game into a filmable script. Well, actually I do because he's going to get paid a shitload of money for his work, but you know what I mean.

The biggest thing this movie will have going for it will probably be the lowest baseline expectations since Battleship.

[nedleeds]

Inquisitive slightly burnt out from el pulvo Christian Slater FTW.

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[Aggro_zombies]

Starring Samuel L Jackson as Karn.

[alphastryk]

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[nedleeds]

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[nedleeds]

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[nedleeds]

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[Que]

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LMao.

And as much as I would like the idea of an MTG movie I just can't help but think they're going to fuck up the execution.

[Royal Ass.]

This should be a disaster. I predict bad reviews devalue my Alpha Lotus.

[Koby]

We're fucked.

http://media.wizards.com/images/magic/daily/arcana/492_poster3.jpg
https://web.archive.org/web/20030106132135/http://shop.nationofbob.com/magicposter2.jpg

I have better hopes for this movie than a real identity to the color Red.

[Leftconsin]

I'll wait for Shia LaBeouf to be announced as Jace. Then I'll forever ignore the existence of this film.

[cheerios]

I just hope they create a new character as lead for the movie. I'm pretty tired of Jace at this point. Dude's been everywhere the past few years.

[2Rach]

Dwayne Johnson as GaRock.

Britney Spears goes bald again for Angel of Despair.

EDIT:
Mr. T as Mr. T.

EDIT:
I pity da foo that gets hit by that lightning bolt! LMAO

[Lemnear]

I'd freak out if they use talentless hype-actors for known Walkers. God forbid they use Pattinson for Jace or shit.

Would have to sell my cards the moment anyone could refer to me as the "guy, playing that Robert Pattinson card game"

*shudder*


http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/fox-bring-magic-gathering-big-670529?mobile_redirect=false

Better have Nicholas Cage, that's all I'm saying.

I was surprised that they found 2 Young actors even worse than Nicholas Cage and put all 3 in a single Movie. That Movie was nearly as bad as the D&D ones, which tells a lot.

[from Cairo]

There seems like there's been a lot of good back story/lore to MTG over the years. I could see something about Urza and Mishra being made into a movie that's not bad. It seems much more likely that this is a cash grab by Hasbro and will closer resemble a 2hr Jace commercial.

[ESG]

Magic: The Bankrupting

[EpicLevelCommoner]

There seems like there's been a lot of good back story/lore to MTG over the years. I could see something about Urza and Mishra being made into a movie that's not bad. It seems much more likely that this is a cash grab by Hasbro and will closer resemble a 2hr Jace commercial.

This is the problem I'm seeing. Magic's lore is so rich that it already takes multiple books to attempt to give it justice. Take into account that each block is only minimally interwoven with others (akin to the Elder Scrolls series), Fox and Hasbro should be having a tough time with just drafting a script.

What I'd like to see: Brother's War or Phyrexian Invasion

What I expect: Jace brooding over whether to get a booster pack at his LGS.

[Aggro_zombies]

They won't do something like the Brother's War or the Phyrexian Invasion because there's no potential tie-ins. Those plot threads are over in MtG canon and I doubt Wizards wants to go and revisit them by reprinting Invasion block wholesale or something. If we get anything, it'll be Jace, because they can make Jace-themed product tie-ins to milk people becoming interested in the game after watching the movie. Of course, the issue with that is that modern Magic does worldbuilding very well but modern story lines are fucking woeful, so the writers are probably going to be able to just come up with whatever they want using Wizards' characters and settings.

The only real question is whether it'll be worse than the D&D movie.

[phazonmutant]

Inquisitive slightly burnt out from el pulvo Christian Slater FTW.

http://cdn1-www.shocktillyoudrop.com/assets/uploads/2013/06/file_174371_0_stranded.jpg

Is it just me, or does Slater look constipated?

[virre]

The only real question is whether it'll be worse than the D&D movie.

That would be quite an acheivment.

[PirateKing]

Here's to many long years in development hell! Say hi to live action Akira while you're there.

[Kayradis]

http://i.imgur.com/vZPwzlt.jpg

[Dan Turner]

I am fully expecting a story kind of like this:

Kid is playing Magic finds out his opponent is actually a real planeswalker and he is here to train the kid on how to become one. May as well rip off the sorcerer's apprentice here. Figure it to be a 94 Minute ad for WOTC


Time to buy up every card I can find to sell to teenie boppers leaving the theater

[Erdvermampfa]

This is going to be pretty embarrassing and will further reinforce the stigmatization of Magic players in general. Wizards and related businesses have a pretty generalized image of their customer base and I can already conceive how this will feed the general negative perception of the magic subculture.

[Barook]

Of course, the issue with that is that modern Magic does worldbuilding very well but modern story lines are fucking woeful, so the writers are probably going to be able to just come up with whatever they want using Wizards' characters and settings.
The story becomes worse and worse with each block. This time, they ripped of Warhammer 40k. Partying so hard that you create a new god? Yeah, sounds familiar...

Richard Garfield has done one hell of a job to make the core game strong enough to survive 20 years of Wizards' bullshit. The amount of mishandling the franchise outside of the game is astounding.

This movie is going to be a disaster, both in terms of quality and financially. Where's the mass appeal of such a movie?

[Lans89]

http://i.imgur.com/vZPwzlt.jpg

LoL, awesome!

[snorlaxcom]

At least I can say I played Magic before it was cool....

[jandax]

http://s16.postimg.org/7cpg2qewj/7_Z43_We8.gif

Can't wait to download a shaky cam version of the film and go to tournaments where no one talks because we're all to ashamed to be playing

[Plague Sliver]

You guys forgot the best part. Movie tie-in planeswalker cards with movie footage.

Robert Pattison as Jace, signed by...Robert Pattison.

Twilight fanboys and fangirls embracing M:TG, driving up sales.

/trying to find the silver lining

[Amon Amarth]

I'm not enthusiastic about this film's prospects for not sucking. If we got someone like Duncan Jones (doing the WoW film) then I could be more excited but Fox is involved and god damn if that doesn't make me shudder. Still, it's not like there isn't a lot of good lore or storylines available in Magic. Obviously Brother's War or The Weatherlight Saga would be sick. But even something newer like the original Ravnica block was pretty sweet. Whatever they put out it's got to be a step up from the books. Damn.

[Anvil]

I'm predicting a more of a planewalker origin story.Venser-esqe as in a person finding out he/she's a planeswalker and ultimately having to save a plane/his native plane.

I wonder, will there be a promo card a la pokemon ( first movie you got a movie promo MewTwo ) ? :P

[Koby]

"a series of films" (http://company.wizards.com/content/twentieth-century-fox-and-hasbro-develop-magic-gathering-new-film-franchise)

Oy vey.

[Slag]

Clearly, the easiest plotline for a mtg movie would be the patchwork 7th edition background story. It's all written right there in the southern paladin's flavor text:
"So, through some clips of the eastern and western paladins trashing some peasant villages, and probably the eastern paladin eating a baby, we can see that they are bad guys and need to be killed in an epic battle scene, so the other paladins decide to go get a magical army to beat them. The northern paladin goes and talks to the elves and they're like "yeah, I'm on board, and because all my elf guys are like legolas, and we've got some armadons." The southern paladin goes to talk to the lord of atlantis, and is like "come join us, because bant is clearly the good guy color combo," but the LoA is like "naw, I'm going to be a wild card for this flick." So the armies go to war for like the last hour and a half of the movie, and the good armies seems to be losing despite the fact that they have spined wurms and the bad guys have goblins and cockroaches, because red is the other bad guy color, and there are dragons, because dragons are in right now, and magic has a bunch of dragons. But then the LoA shows up and helps the good guys, and everyone is cheering and killing the bad guys and probably the southern paladin dies because he only has one eye, anyway. Then everyone leaves the theatre exhilarated, but on further review the movie wasn't that great." 3/3

[PirateKing]

I'm on board only if they get the whole production team that did the 80s Dungeons & Dragons cartoon show. Because that was bad in the best of ways.

[majikal]

I'm kind of shocked that they didn't give the option to Disney, since Hasbro does pretty much all of the merchandising for that company.

And for what it's worth, Disney would treat it right. Give it to Lucasfilm or Touchstone and you've got gold (as long as actual George Lucas doesn't touch it).

[Leftconsin]

I'm predicting a more of a planewalker origin story.Venser-esqe as in a person finding out he/she's a planeswalker and ultimately having to save a plane/his native plane.

I wonder, will there be a promo card a la pokemon ( first movie you got a movie promo MewTwo ) ? :P

I think this is most likely. The writers of the film probably won't assume that the audience knows what a planeswalker is or does. Thus we get something like Star Wars IV, V, and VI where Obi-Wan and Yoda explain the Jedi stuff to Luke (and the audience at the same times) as he is becomes one.

[Michael Keller]

I would be happy to direct.

[Griselpuff]

If it's a series, I think the whole Gerard Sisay Weatherlight Saga destroy Voldemort, I mean Yawgmoth, plotline would be great. Unfortunately, newer players don't know much about it.

[Finn]

I think the movie will not be for us. Duals of the Planeswalkers has successfully drawn in players from one genre (video game players). It exists for that very reason and no other. The movie is almost certainly being made for the same purpose. It is not for us. It almost does not matter what we think.

[Phoenix Ignition]

I think the movie will not be for us. Duals of the Planeswalkers has successfully drawn in players from one genre (video game players). It exists for that very reason and no other. The movie is almost certainly being made for the same purpose. It is not for us. It almost does not matter what we think.

This is very true. I'm predicting an angsty teen Jace who goes through the stages of being an emo normal walker to an emo planeswalker to universally hated for turning into generic planeswalker (still emo, just got a haircut). For the teenage market, kinda like their "HERE I RULE" commercials.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbLgtuOhXb4
In case you've forgotten how good Hasbro is with making MTG not have a horrible public image...

[Finn]

Any news on this? It has been quite some time and I can't find squat on the googleverse. I think I will be waiting to sell my collection until after I see the results of this on the marketplace. But I can't see any info whatsoever.

[phonics]

Well if it is anything like the cut scenes in the new duels game then it has a pretty good chance of being the best unintentional comedy of the year.

[thecrav]

Well if it is anything like the cut scenes in the new duels game then it has a pretty good chance of being the best unintentional comedy of the year.

I have a feeling that this is one of those movies where I want to be hammered the first time I see it so that I can properly appreciate it.

[nedleeds]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN0zxVkTH6A&list=PLF4795493D76DEEB5&index=8

The best Magic movies were made long ago. I <3 Lim-Dul.

[Admiral_Arzar]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN0zxVkTH6A&list=PLF4795493D76DEEB5&index=8

The best Magic movies were made long ago. I <3 Lim-Dul.

My life was incomplete without this video. It is now enriched.

[jimmythegreek]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN0zxVkTH6A&list=PLF4795493D76DEEB5&index=8

The best Magic movies were made long ago. I <3 Lim-Dul.
Holy shit.....wow. Thank you.

[phonics]

Sweet animated intros for expansions, shows on mtv and espn, shandalar video game, man things were looking up for mtg, what happened?!

[jrsthethird]

sweet animated intros for expansions, shows on mtv and espn, shandalar video game, man things were looking up for mtg, what happened?!

mtv?

[Richard Cheese]

mtv?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HztAWVUO1Zo

One can only wonder where The Hammer is now.

[Finn]

Seriously, there is an incredible lack of any information whatsoever on this movie. There is ZERO official information for over two years now. Is this development hell we are talking about?

So frustrating...

[Barook]

Seriously, there is an incredible lack of any information whatsoever on this movie. There is ZERO official information for over two years now. Is this development hell we are talking about?

So frustrating...
This is no development hell - this is Wizards' modus operandi.

Remember how long it took them to release V4? Or bring back leagues?

Expect a release 5-7 years after its initial annoucement. They might set up the Gatewatch storyline and then have the film about that.