After directing the hyper-successful, Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, directors Joe and Anthony Russo have a new project in the hands, adapting the 26-year-old collectible card gram Magic: The Gathering animated series for Netflix.
Netflix announced on Monday that the Russos would team with Wizards of The Coast and Hasbro for an animated series based on the mythology of the fantasy game.
If you have no idea what is this series about, here is a brief explanation.
Magic: The Gathering is a collectible and digital collectible card game created by Richard Garfield and released by Wizards of the Coast in 1993. It was the first trading card game and over twenty billion Magic cards were produced in the period from 2008 to 2016 alone.
Each game of Magic represents a battle between Wizards known as the Planeswalkers who cast spells, use artifacts and summon creatures as depicted on individual cards in order to defeat their opponents.
The Russos are set to executive produce the series, with writers Henry Gilroy (Star Wars Rebels, Star Wars: The Clone Wars) and Jose Molina (The Tick, Jordan Peele’s Weird City) serving as showrunners. Yoriaki Mochizuki (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse) is on board as supervising director and co-executive producer.
You can try out this game on Android: Magic 2015 by Wizards of the Coast.