Final Fantasy 14 TV Show Is “Dead” In The Water
A phoenix down won’t help resurrect the Final Fantasy XIV live-action TV series, because it’s “dead.” Apparently the “size and scale” was just too much for a company like Amazon or Netflix to pick up the show, according to Hivemind cofounder Dinesh Shamdasani.
Spotted by Eurogamer, Shamdasani responded to a question on X (formerly known as Twitter) about the Final Fantasy live-action show that was announced in June 2019. “Dead,” said the Hivemind cofounder, who now serves as CEO at Bad Idea and partner at Allnighter.
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.
— Dinesh Shamdasani (@dinesh_s) January 23, 2024
“We took around a fantastic pilot script by Ben Lustig [and Jake Thornton] along with a multi-season plan they built with our showrunners but got rejected across the board,” Shamdasani said. “The size and scale needed to do it right proved too much for anyone to want to risk. Amazon came closest.”