Jamie Lovett is a graduate of MTSU’s Journalism program who followed his lifelong passion for comics and related media into a career writing about pop culture. He has over a decade of experience writing about television, movies, comics, video games, and more, and recently co-founded the comics-focused newsletter/site Weird City Media.
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Maya Hawke just awakened to her Spark. The Stranger Things star is the first major cast addition to Legendary Entertainment and Hasbro Entertainment’s upcoming Magic: The Gathering movie, which Matt Johnson is directing.
Deadline reports that Hawke is joining the adaptation of the iconic trading card game’s lore in an undisclosed role. Legendary and Hasbro are collaborating to turn Magic: The Gathering‘s deep fictional history, which spans multiple worlds, into a shared movie and television universe.
Maya Hawke Joins Magic: The Gathering Movie
The report says that the Magic: The Gathering movie will have an ensemble cast, but that Hawke will play a major role. Notably, the producers prioritized pursuing a deal with Hawke after her audition over other roles still to be filled.
It’s uncertain whether the movie’s ensemble cast will be a full cohort of Magic‘s signature multiverse-traversing Planeswalkers or a group of less-powerful bound to one specific plane featured in Magic‘s history. Magic: The Gathering has taken a variety of different storytelling approaches throughout its 33-year history, so anything is possible in its first cinematic feature.
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