Avengers: Final Game Directors Adapting Magic: The Gathering for Netflix

You will want to put your cards, Planeswalkers.

After leading the hyper-success, Infinity-Saga-end Avengers: End of the game, directors Anthony and Joe Russo have a new project: adapt the 26-year-old trading card game, Magic: The Gathering for the small screen.

Netflix announced Monday that the Russo would team up with Wizards of The Coast and Hasbro for an animated series based on the mythology of fantasy gaming. The Russo "will oversee the creation of a whole new scenario and develop the stories of the Planeswalkers" (sorry, the hopes of the saga of Urza) and will see the heroes and villains of the universe "face challenges bigger than anything what a world can have. "

"We are huge fans and players of Magic: The Gathering since as long as it is in place, so we are able to help bring these stories to life through animation. ", he said in a joint statement.

The Russos should produce the series with the writers Henry Gilroy (Star Wars Rebels, Star Wars: The clone war) and Jose Molina (The tick, Jordan Peele's Strange city) serving as showrunners. Yoriaki Mochizuki (Spider-Man: in the Spider-Verse) is on board as a director and co-executive producer.

Bardel Entertainment (Rick and Morty, Teen Titans go!and Netflix The dragon prince) is set to execute the point of the transmission animation. Octopia Network (Neo Fighter Dream Crisis) will oversee the production of the series with Todd Makurath (How to Become a Serial Killer), Eric Calderon (Afro Samurai) and Dave Newberg (Harg Nallin 'Sclopio Peepio by Brad Neely) serving as producers, and Mike Larocca (Deadly class) and Isaac Krauss, CEO of Octopie, acting as executive producers.

"Working with Joe and Anthony, Wizards of the Coast and Netflix on a brand that is so dear to everyone is a real asset to our studio," Krauss said in a statement. "Our goal is not just to tell a fascinating story using the incredible body of Magic: The Gathering, but also to promote the support and perception of narrative through animation. This series will cross genres of thriller, horror and drama, with deeply developed characters, as we often do not see them in animation. "

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The Magic: The Gathering series joins a growing list of Netflix-themed adult animations, featuring traditional anime like Devilman Crybaby, Aggretsuko, and Ultraman live next door Castlevania and the next Pacific Rim and Altered carbon series.

For Wizards of the Coast, this announcement is a master shot for a property long imprisoned in Hollywood development cycles. In 2014, Fox hired Game of thrones Writer Bryan Cogman has to write an adaptation of the game – and is now encouraged by one of the world's leading media companies.

"More and more fans have been enjoying Magic since its 25 years of existence, thanks to the persistent popularity of the board game and our latest War of the Spark album," said Chris Cocks, president of Wizards of the Coast, in a press article Libération. "We're excited to be collaborating with Joe and Anthony Russo to introduce to Netflix the rich and diverse characters in Magic: The Gathering and their worlds, so we can delight our many fans and newcomers to the franchise."