The co-founder of Hivemind has taken to Twitter, also known as X, to discuss the rapid decline in terms of success for the Final Fantasy XIV live-action television series.
The series was announced back in 2019, and before a single episode was even aired, the co-founder of Hivemind, Dinesh Shamdasani, stated that the series is officially dead. A fan of the franchise asked the co-founder what happened with the planned series, and Dinesh Shamdasani simply replied,
“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.”
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
Under the original post and Shamdasani’s comment, Jake Thornton, who was a scriptwriter for the content, mentioned that, as with many businesses, ideas, and plans, COVID-19 took a massive role in the failure of the series. Thornton says,
“It was a real result of Covid, unfortunately. We took It out just as studios began to zip up their purse strings.”
COVID-19, of course, took a huge toll on major companies, meaning they were “tightening their purse strings” in order to save money for the hard times ahead. Sadly, the Final Fantasy XIV series was another casualty due to the pandemic. Maybe someday, we will get the chance to see it once again.
