The Final Fantasy 14 live action TV show is officially dead, with production company Hivemind citing a too ambitious size and scale alongside complications caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
As reported by PC Gamer, Hivemind co-founder Dinesh Shamdasani confirmed the project's cancellation on X/Twitter. This comes almost five years after it was announced as a project between Hivemind and Sony Pictures Television.
When asked by a fan how the project was going, Shamdasani replied, simply: "dead." He elaborated though: "We took around a fantastic pilot script by Ben Lustig and [Jake Thornton] along with a multi-season plan they built with our show runners but got rejected across the board. The size and scale needed to do it right proved too much for anyone to want to risk. Amazon came closest."
Thornton chimed in too, saying "it was a real result of COVID-19 unfortunately. We took it out just as studios began to zip up their purse strings."
The Final Fantasy 14 TV show was set to be the first time the beloved video game franchise entered the world of live action, and was to be filled with chocobos, airships, beastmen, and of course, Cid. It would have told an original story set in the world of Eorzea, inspired by Final Fantasy 14's characters and events.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He'll talk about The Witcher all day.
