Picture from Brendy’s coverage of the Final Fantasy XIV Fan Fest.
Maybe they shut down the Final Fantasy XIV servers at this time to present at this time’s shock announcement of a TV adaptation an opportunity to sink in. As coated by Hollywood Reporter, there’s a live-action sequence within the works primarily based on Square Enix’s widespread fantasy MMORPG. It’s produced by Hivemind, the crew behind The Expanse and the upcoming TV version of The Witcher.
The TV present will inform a story of “struggle between magic and technology to bring peace to a land in conflict”, and Hivemind say that notable characters from the game will make an look, together with heartthrob engineer Cid.
Benig produced for Sony Pictures Television, it seems like they’ve obtained a great crew on the high ranges of this challenge. Project leads Jason Brown (The Expanse) and Sean Daniel (The Mummy) have some expertise. Worryingly, writing credit go to Ben Lustig and Jake Thornton, who penned the script for Winter’s Knight, a gritty fantasy origin story for Santa Claus. The challenge was canned, per Deadline, however that doesn’t fill me with hope. Fingers crossed they obtained all their unhealthy concepts of their system with that one.
A narrative arc that the TV present will probably not cowl. I’d wish to be improper, although.
Final Fantasy XIV has a very high-fantasy setting that will probably demand an infinite funds to depict in its entirety. As such, I’m hazarding a guess that the story will deal with the despotic high-tech Garlean Empire. Mostly plain previous boring people and devoid of magical energy, Garleans make up for his or her shortcomings with expertise, together with computer systems, plane and robots.
Focusing on the much less magical aspect of issues can be an awesome excuse to create a bunch of inventory industrial metal-plated units and keep away from having to render too many eight foot tall people with wildly varying skin colours. Still, I need to be improper; I’d like to see extra folks attempt to pronounce “Merlwyb Bloefhiswyn”. Til’ sea swallows all.
There’s no phrase on once they’re planning on bringing the brand new present to small screens, however within the meantime, there’s a brand new Final Fantasy XIV enlargement, Shadowbringers, entering early access tomorrow. Plus, there’s the Netflix sequence Final Fantasy XIV: Dad Of Light, a narrative a few father and son bonding by means of the game, impressed by real-life occasions.
