Yup, but pessimism is depressing. Don't think of it as a chance for someone to screw up an M;tG movie, but a slight increase in the chance of a movie you would want to see being produced.

Don't forget about Chandra, manic pixie dream pyromancer!

What I don't want is to have to see "Team Jace" and "Team Gideon" shirts in relation to Chandra.

I'm praying to every force above and below that this will be a so bad it's good movie.

Like the Super Mario Bros. movie?

~SE++

In lieu of posting nominally appropriate reaction gifs, I'll just say that my theory is that this will be an original story, starring each of the Lorwyn five in some way, with Jace taking a lead role.
There are about a million things that can go wrong, but an equal number that can go right. However, precedent would indicate the former as being more likely.
They would have been better off starting with a miniseries.
I want Bumblewhip Curlyfries to voice Ajani. And Sorin, if he shows up.
There's no way they're doing The Brother's War. Agents is a little more likely, but I still kind of doubt they'll do it; they need something more marketable to a non-Magic-playing mainstream audience.

I have a whole folder of movies like this.

Clearly, Ajani would have a Mexican accent.

Edit: I'm not kidding.

Naya is more Central American than Mexican.

Either way, Antonio Banderas could just reprise his "Puss in Boots" voice from Shrek and we'd be set.

"Nacatl" is a Nahuatl word, which was and is primarily spoken in what is now Mexico.

Antonio Banderas has a very Spanish accent though I did think about the lion-cat thing.

Ajani's kitten eyes would be frightening.

More in the lines of The Room, where ineptitude permeates everything like chi or mana itself, and you can't help but theorise about the meaning of it all. But the Super Mario Brothers Movie is pretty damn hilarious too.

YOU SHUT YOUR DAMN MOUTHS THE SUPER MARIO BROS MOVIE WAS GREAT.

Man, I've thought about that movie several times in the past few days for some reason. I think Barinellos's random content convergence thing is communicable...

The biggest problem would be explaining the Multiverse to the uninitiated. They've got to cover mana, spellcasting, planes, and Planeswalking. That could potentially be quite a bit to fit in, which could bog down the story. Unless they decide to just ignore all that Planeswalker stuff =_=

It's great for being super campy and silly, and I love it '-')b

I think people get "people can cast spells and do so by drawing energy from the land" and "some people can teleport between different dimensions".

At the very least, I don't think they have any more expositing to do than your average spec fic film. Thinking of ones I saw last year alone, Epic, Pacific Rim, Thor: the Dark World, and Frozen all had get out at least two big, important concepts as difficult as Planeswalkers and Mana. Your average 1-hour episode of Doctor Who likely introduces as much, and first episodes for a particular companion (like "Rose", "Smith and Jones", or "The Eleventh Hour") usually do more as they have to introduce The Doctor and usually the TARDIS.

EDIT: Hell, let's try to do this. Taking a noncommittal scenario and trying to get the exposition out of the way as fast as possible

Chandra* (Voiceover narration looking at generic stars-and-false-color-nebulas arrangement): Dominia. The Multiverse. Countless worlds strewn across the Blind Eternities, largely ignorant that the rest of creation exists beyond their borders. I am a Planeswalker, one of the few gifted with the power to travel between the worlds of Dominia... but that doesn't always mean life is easy.

[swooshy zoom in onto a random point of light to cut to...]

YOUNG CHANDRA attempting to cast a spell. after a moment it fizzles out with a pop and singes her fingers

YOUNG CHANDRA: Ow! [shakes hands]

MENTOR: Focus, Chandra. The power to call your magic, and control it, is all around us. In these mountains [pan out]. Feel the fire within them, draw on that, and the fire inside you will be easier to manage

YOUNG CHANDRA: Is that why we're way up here? Can't we do this at home.

MENTOR: Other lands have other powers. The high mountains suit you best. Plus, you wouldn't want to set your house on fire, would you?

[Scene continues to a point, blah,blah,blah]

Seriously, just crud off the top of my head here. Expositing is not hard.

My cousin was in that movie.

I think the most likely plot line is one cribbed straight from the Marvel movie playbook - we'll see the origin story for one of the 5 poster new-walkers. Jace and/or Chandra would seem like the most likely candidates.

One or more of the others may make an appearance, but I doubt all 5 would figure prominently. I assume that they hope this develops into a big, tentpole franchise, in which case they'd want to spread that material out.

Personally, I want Bolas to narrate. Too few villains narrate films, and he'd be perfect for it...

At one point, when I was sick and very loopy from a regimen of dayquil/nyquil as the time called for, I had a vision of a disney-esque musical 'adaption' of The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath. Naturally, Nyarlathotep would narrate when needed, and was capable of breaking the fourth wall.

But I do sort of like the idea of Bolas narrating.