based on a live television series it doesn’t happen anymore. According to Dinesh Shamdasani, co-founder of Hivemind, one of the production companies involved, the project is now dead.
“We took on a fantastic pilot script from Ben Lustig and Jake Thornton, as well as a multi-season plan they were building with our showrunners, but they turned it all down,” Shamdasani said. as mentioned by Eurogamer. “The size and scale needed to do it right has proven to be too much for anyone to want to risk.”
Amazon spent a billion dollars on the Lord of the Rings TV show but it came closest to spinning the project, albeit barely, in the cultural zeitgeist. Apparently, he decided not to board the ship.
Dead. We picked up a fantastic pilot script by Ben Lustig &. @jakethornton along with a multi-season plan, they pitched a show with our athletes, but were rejected as a whole. The size and scale needed to do it right proved too much for anyone willing to take the risk. Amazon came closest.
— Dinesh Shamdasani (@dinesh_s) January 23, 2024
According to screenwriter Thornton, COVID-19 also played against the show’s chances. “When the studios started to tighten the purse strings, we took it out,” Thornton said .
It was a series As a collaborative effort between Hivemind (which creates the Netflix series). ) and Sony Pictures Television. Although Sony does not own the rights to Final Fantasy – that would be Square Enix – the Final Fantasy series is closely associated with the PlayStation.
Sony has had success adapting other PlayStation games to the big and small screen over the past few years, e.g and . But it seems turning a massively popular MMO into a TV show was a tall order.
It probably doesn’t help Final fantasy 14 is the main game . So much so that the players can pay and achieve good things. It feels like the equivalent of having to watch a season and a half of a TV show before you can actually move on. Maybe Hivemind and Sony should try to adapt a Final Fantasy game that’s good out of the gate, e.g. FF16.
