Maya Hawke is set to star in "Magic: The Gathering," a live-action movie from Legendary Entertainment and Hasbro Entertainment, per Variety. Matt Johnson, who directed "Blackberry," will direct. Her role is undisclosed and the plot is "under wraps," though the game is a multiverse war fought by wizards called Planeswalkers. Johnson's first quote is about tilting at a Detroit tournament and almost dropping out of film school to play cards for a living.
The trading card game is the new superhero franchise, and the industry just gave it its first A-lister. Hawke — Stranger Things, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Asteroid City — is anchoring a movie about a card game whose biggest fans play in convention centers with fanny packs. Hasbro is building a Marvel for the card table, and the card table has been printing money since 1993.
And the director's first quote is a confession, not a pitch: "I'm x&5 and tilted so badly that I sac Lifespinner and a lethal board (I'm serious) for a lone Jugan," then driving home. A man describing his own tilt spiral for the record, then driving home. That is the most honest thing a director has ever said to a room full of executives. Marvel spent ten years building a multiverse. Wizards had one in the box.
YOUR TURN: Which card is the villain, and is it the land card?
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