Art from Magic: The Gathering's upcoming Aetherdrift setLegendary Entertainment and Hasbro Entertainment announced in a joint news release on Thursday that they have reached a deal licensing Magic: The Gathering to Legendary for development into a live-action feature film and television universe, starting with an initial planned movie, then expanding to other media. Legendary is the studio behind IP-derived movies like Christopher Nolans The Dark Knight, Denis Villeneuves Dune and Dune: Part Two, and a recent run of Godzilla and King Kong movies, including Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire.There were no initial details about what area of Magic the studio might want to explore, or who would be involved with the production. The initial news release just promised a multimedia universe that thrills longstanding fans and creates a broad wave of new ones. But looking at Legendarys other output Christopher Nolans Interstellar and Inception, the 2016 Warcraft movie, Zack Snyders Man of Steel and Watchmen, Pokmon: Detective Pikachu, and a lot more at least suggests the specific dark, somber tone and blockbuster scope that the company might bring to the material.The news release notes that Hasbro has also licensed Magic: The Gathering to Netflix for the previously reported (and recently revived) upcoming animated TV series, which suggests this new deal hasnt canceled or overwritten the old one. Presumably, Legendarys planned Magic universe wont intersect with Netflixs version at all.The deal is part of a current Hasbro push to get its properties into the entertainment world. As the news release notes, Hasbro Entertainment recently announced deals with Sonys TriStar Pictures and Sony Pictures Television to re-imagineClueacross film and television, a deal with Margot Robbies LuckyChap and Lionsgate to produce a film based onMonopoly,and a deal with The CW to produce game shows based onTrivial PursuitandScrabble, which premiered this past fall.