Magic The Gathering: The Film Franchise

These are the DnD movies all over again, aren't they?

Why is this a bad thing?

Do you think that a film set in the world hinted at by MTG would necessarily be a bad thing?

PoC was a massive success. It was set in the world hinted at by a certain ride. But if you thought that meant that the film would be automatically bad quality then you'd simply be wrong.

You seem aghast that Kinberg is producing - Why?
He's got a great track record at creating films that connect to an audience (audience members have spent over a billion dollars to see his films) - so why is that so bad ? Sure - he's also made some that didn't catch the public's imagination ... but is there any screen writer or producer with a 100% track record?

If your reaction means anything - there must be many producers that you wouldn't be aghast at.

Why not list your top 5 here ?

Mac

To address what's lacking in the thread title and OP: MTG means "Magic: The Gathering", a popular card game.

This should be the maincharacter. I accept no substitutes.

Actually, there currently IS an over-arching storyline connecting the expansions at the moment, and there has been for a few years now. Following a handful of planeswalkers on their trips through the multiverse and the rising tide of evil they encounter (most of which, fittingly enough for a movie, are actually the machinations of an evil dragon planeswalker).

The dangers are mainly two-fold.

1. They try to somehow incorporate the actual card game into the movie. For example, some real-world whiz kid gets sucked through a portal with his collection and saves the universe by playing his cards and watching them actually come to life.

2. They incorporate the movie title: "Magic: The Gathering" into the movie and specifically make it about a "gathering" of some sort. Not as dangerous as the first thought, but could still be very, very bad in the wrong hands.

Well, to start with Innistrad.

Liliana Vess gained her power by making pacts with five powerful demons. Now she's looking for tools to enhance her power and is looking for the demons in order to kill them before they can call upon the price she agreed to for that power. Garruk had been tracking her for reasons of his own and confronted her on Innistrad, where she beat him down and cursed him. Innistrad was also home to one of the demons Vess was looking for, although, unknown to her, he was imprisoned in the Helvault. As she tore the place up looking for him, it caused the imbalance that summoned Sorin back to his home plane, where he discovered that the angel he had left in charge was gone as well, having also been trapped in the Helvault in order to capture the demon. Thus the Vault was smashed, releasing the angel and entire hordes of demons, resulting in a war to re-establish balance on the plane. Of course, good won, and the balance is tipped towards the light now. I'm unsure if Vess managed to kill the demon before she left though, with Garruk in pursuit.

Dunno. I could see a whole movie trilogy made out of that.