Netflix Taps Avengers: Endgame Directors for Magic: The Gathering Animated Series
by 
Joseph Luster
June 3, 2019
Joseph Luster
June 3, 2019 
Netflix is officially calling this one an anime, so here we are!
The world of Wizards of the Coast’s collectable card game Magic: The Gathering is coming to the small screen in a new original animated series from Netflix. To make this an even more monumental event, Avengers: Endgame directors Joe and Anthony Russo have been brought on board to serve as executive producers for the project that has Netflix teaming up with Hasbro’s Allspark Animation.
The Magic: The Gathering series will feature a brand new storyline centered on the Planeswalkers, who will be contending with “stakes larger than any one world can hold.
Here’s who Netflix has behind the scenes so far:
- Executive producer: Joe Russo, Anthony Russo, Mike Larocca, Isaac Krauss
- Co-executive producer: Henry Gilroy, Jose Molina, Yoriaki Mochizuki
- Producer: Todd Makurath, Eric Calderon, Dave Newberg
- Lead writer: Henry Gilroy, Jose Molina
- Supervising director: Yoriaki Mochizuki
- Production: Octopie
- Animation production: Bardel Entertainment
Source: Press release
