Well, this is unexpected. It looks like Final Fantasy XIV is going to be coming to the small screen with the announcement of a new television series courtesy of Hivemind and Sony TV, a surprising announcement as this will make it the first live-action television show based off an MMO in… ever, basically. (No, Defiance was developed concurrently; it doesn’t count here.) Hivemind is the studio behind The Expanse and the upcoming The Witcher series, so it’s got some pedigree there.
The series itself is promising to be a new story based in the world rather than a direct adaptation of the game’s plot; considering the five years spent rebuilding after the Calamity, it seems that there is plenty of space to fill in even without having it be a contemporary story. We don’t yet have a director or any casting announced, so it’s likely going to be a while before this is more than this announcement, but… yeah, that’s a pretty big announcement to begin with.Source: IGN
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