The highly anticipated live-action TV adaptation of the beloved video game franchise, Final Fantasy 14, has officially been terminated. The production company, Hivemind, has cited the project's ambitious size and scale, coupled with complications arising from the COVID-19 pandemic, as the primary reasons for its demise.
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End of a Five-Year Journey
Hivemind co-founder Dinesh Shamdasani took to X/Twitter to confirm the cancellation, marking the end of a nearly five-year journey since the project was initially announced as a collaboration between Hivemind and Sony Pictures Television.
Shamdasani explained the decision in a succinct Twitter (hereinnafter X) reply: "Dead. We took around a fantastic pilot script by Ben Lustig & @jakethornton 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."
Pandemic and Financial Constraints
Responding to a fan's inquiry about the project's status, Shamdasani bluntly stated, "dead." Further elaborating on the difficulties faced, he mentioned, "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 added that the project fell victim to the financial constraints imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, stating, "it was a real result of COVID-19 unfortunately. We took it out just as studios began to zip up their purse strings."
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