Final Fantasy 14's Naoki Yoshida Is Open To A TV Show, If It's Done Right
If you've ever wanted to watch your favorite Final Fantasy 14 characters in other mediums, like say, an anime, the team is open to the idea if the right offer comes along.
During a press Q&A last night at Final Fantasy 14's Fan Festival 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada, producer and director Naoki Yoshida touched on the subject of bringing FF14 to other mediums, namely TV and anime. Readers will remember that Netflix has a series, Final Fantasy XIV Dad of Light, which debuted in 2019.
This series showcased a father and son rebuilding their bond through the MMORPG. And while Final Fantasy 14 was a focal point, the real highlight was watching that bond form between the two protagonists. It was a short-lived series, however, running for only one season back in 2017. In 2019, though, Sony and Hivemind released a press release about a live-action Final Fantasy 14 show in the works, though as of now, nothing has really come about that.
In the Q&A, Yoshida touched on this, citing the global pandemic as a factor in the show being canceled.
«We were fortunate enough to have people approach us with offers,» Yoshida said through an interpreter in the press Q&A. «But unfortunately, with the pandemic hitting and a lot of schedules being thrown off, or things getting canceled, I'm sure not just our [Final Fantasy 14] project but other projects may have been affected by the pandemic as well.»
If a project like this were to be revived, Yoshida says the team is open to the idea, so long as it's done right. While he mentions that he'd like to be the «overall supervisory director,» he's not sure with all his other duties he'd have time to be the director of the series.
«So if I'm allowed to be the overall productions, as well as overall supervisory
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