Overview
- During Friday's MagicCon Atlanta preview, Netflix and Wizards of the Coast debuted a two-minute Development Diary that showed concept art, 3D character models, animatics and brief finished animation while announcing the series title Planeswalker and a 2027 release window.
- Netflix and Wizards confirmed Terry Matalas as showrunner with Cindy Appel as co-showrunner, Patrick Osborne as supervising director and executive producer, and DIGIC Pictures as the animation studio, with Hasbro Entertainment and Wizards as production partners.
- The official synopsis places Chandra Nalaar, a volatile pyromancer hunted for her gifts, at the center of a multiverse story in which legendary Planeswalkers must unite to stop an insidious force from triggering a cataclysmic war.
- Netflix has not announced a specific premiere date or episode count for Planeswalker, leaving exact timing and season length unspecified even as the team releases early footage and art.
- The reveal closes a yearslong cycle of restarts dating to the project's 2019 announcement, and it arrives as Legendary and Hasbro continue development on a separate live-action Magic: The Gathering film reportedly starring Maya Hawke, signaling a multi-pronged media push for the franchise.