A beforehand introduced live-action tv adaptation of Sq. Enix’s profitable MMO, Remaining Fantasy XIV, is lifeless within the water. So says the co-founder of the manufacturing firm behind the undertaking, Hivemind.
First introduced in 2019, the FFXIV present was being developed by Sq. Enix, Sony Footage Tv, and manufacturing firm Hivemind Leisure—the identical firm behind Netflix’s Witcher collection and Amazon’s Expanse present. It was deliberate to be a live-action collection that might inform an unique story set on the planet of FFXIV, Eorzea. A press launch in 2019 mentioned the present would discover “the battle between magic and expertise in a quest to deliver peace to a land in battle.” When it was introduced, there was no launch date or perhaps a streaming service hooked up. And now, after years of radio silence, the undertaking is seemingly by no means going to occur, the individuals concerned unable to search out anybody keen to flip the invoice for the formidable collection.
On January 23, Hivemind’s co-founder Dinesh Shamdasani was requested in regards to the standing of the live-action collection on Twitter/X/no matter and replied that it was “lifeless.”
“We took round a unbelievable pilot script by Ben Lustig and Jake Thornton together with a multi-season plan they constructed with our showrunners however bought rejected throughout the board,” Shamdasani added. “The dimensions and scale wanted to do it proper proved an excessive amount of for anybody to need to threat.”
You possibly can blame covid-19, too
In accordance with Shamdasani, Amazon was the streamer who bought the closest to saying sure and making the FFXIV present a actuality. Nevertheless it didn’t occur, partly attributable to its dimension, but additionally as a result of—as defined by author Jake Thornton—Covid threw a wrench within the works proper as they had been attempting to promote the collection.
“It was an actual results of Covid, sadly,” mentioned Thornton. “We took it out simply as studios started to zip up their purse strings.” [Editor’s note: How do you zip up purse strings? That’s a weird bag.]
When somebody requested the co-founder of Hivemind if an animated collection might nonetheless occur, he tossed chilly water on the thought, saying: “More durable [to be honest] and the rights are again in Japan, sadly.”
So ends the largely uneventful saga of FFXIV’s live-action TV present. I do surprise, in a post-Final of Us/Witcher/Arcane world, if somebody was attempting to make that 2019 present as we speak if it might have survived, discovered a streamer, and change into a actuality. However, based mostly on a number of the live-action online game diversifications we’ve gotten during the last decade, perhaps all of us dodged a fireball spell.
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