News Release : Nov. 8, 2023 “Development of a Live-Action Film of The Legend of Zelda to Start”
News Release : Nov. 8, 2023 “Development of a Live-Action Film of The Legend of Zelda to Start”
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Videoboysayscube
Live action? WHY??? Have you not seen what they did to Dragonball and Avatar? Mystical worlds are very difficult to translate into live-action. I’m extremely skeptical about this. It really should have been classic animation or CGI.
HistoryCat42
Well, this was very unexpected.
Riomegon
I’m not going to lie.. live action really hurts this for me… now ofcourse we know nothing about it and everyone is gonna have their opinions but Animated would have been the way to go if you ask me.
IloveKaitlyn
Avi Arad…it’s so over
Jake_Bluth
Wes Ball was announced as the director. He’s so far only done the Maze Runner trilogy which wasn’t too well received. He’s the director of the next Planet of the Apes movie so we’ll see if he’s improved.
pepesito1
it’s joever
BriannaMckinley2442
Really disappointed that a series well-known for it’s wealth of different art styles isn’t being adapted in a gorgeous animated artsyle
Ecktore27
I will hold all judgements and opinions until I see trailer.
jgb89
I think they lucked out with Mario as it’s inherently a goofy thing so they could lean into animated comedy. Zelda would have to be more serious and I can’t see that going well
strangegoo
I would have personally preferred an animated movie or series with the style of the Link’s Awakening remake.
But it’s MUCH too early to tell how this will turn out.
haidere36
In theory a Legend of Zelda film shouldn’t be hard. Do some swordfighting, some adventuring, have Link do a big climactic fight with Ganon and save the world and we’re good. People can say Zelda plot doesn’t work in live action but action films have hardly ever relied on deep, complex plots to engage people.
Make cool action/adventure set pieces, make it look good, do the minimum necessary plot and it’ll make bank.
SlaughterSpine78
I’m gonna be cautious with this here, I was cautious with Mario but I was proven wrong their, but this? A live action movie with link, Zelda and ganondorf played by Hollywood actors is something I’m not looking forward to, but I’ll wait and I hope I’m proved wrong
hyliaidea
Well, I guess at least it’s not Illumination
Conversation_Dapper
Why is everyone crying over it being a live action film ?
Doctor-Grimm
I don’t get why everyone’s pissy about it being live-action. If there’s any Nintendo franchise that would work live-action, it’s Zelda. I, for one, am just glad they didn’t throw this one down the toilet by giving it to Illumination too.
The-Peoples-Eyebrow
Curious to see how it’s paced. The Zelda IP seems more inclined to a television series. Each episode is the first half him solving side quest type stuff and the second being a dungeon.
Utertoq
I am very curious about how they will do it. This is one of the few franchises that I cannot imagine how it’s gonna work on a live action. I hope there’s a team of geniuses working on this, otherwise we’re screwed.
smashboi888
Dang, I wish it was animated. I feel like that would’ve worked way better than live-action. DreamWorks would have been my ideal choice to do this.
I just hope it’s good. I suppose quality matters way more than whether it’s animated or not.
ShouldersofGiants127
Get Scorsese to do it
tehnoodnub
There’s no way I won’t watch the film but I’m really unhappy about the decision to go with live-action. I am not expecting this to go well. TLoZ will not translate well to live-action. Should have been animated and it should have been Ghibli. There is no person alive who I can imagine as Link. Not one.
Barbossal
I can’t wait for Chris Pratt Link
antoni_o_newman
For everyone that is saying this is so unexpected and out of left field… let me remind you Nintendo already tried doing this with Netflix like a decade ago (alongside a robotchicken-like starfox show). This is not “out of left field” at all; most people just don’t like the idea of Zelda not being anime or animated.
Personally, I’m pretty excited about the live action decision and I think if they get this right it could be one of the greatest movies period.
gizmo998
Everyone being negative already. Shocked. I think this could be great. Wait until first trailer. Everyone thought Mario would be crap too.
superyoshiom
Please, please, no recognizable actors for this, I’m begging you. I wasn’t a huge fan of the Sequel trilogy but one thing I loved about the first film is that the new cast was made up of relatively unknown actors.
I’m only saying this because the Mario movie was full of big name talents. If I see Tom Holland as Link, Zendaya as Zelda, and Jason Momoa as Ganondorf my stomach’s gonna turn.
Also gonna parrot a lot of other people and say I would’ve preferred an animated film. I’d have done an anime movie, BotW and TotK already look like Ghibli films. A bit of a shame.
Mosoman1011
The worst outcome
carluoi
Lost me at live action. We’re fucked.
BoomYouLooking
Live action, by Sony Pictures, produced by Avi Arad. I’m burning my house down.
Edit: I’m not sure if it’s because the people in this thread don’t know about the movie industry but they pretty much picked the worst people in town to go with. I understand not giving it to Illumination, duh, but Sony Pictures Animation is right there. Or even Dreamworks if they wanted to keep their pre-existing relationship with Universal. Something animated with the care of Puss In Boots: The Last Wish, The Spider-Verse movies or the recent TMNT film would’ve worked best. Combining an anime art style with western animation techniques could’ve given this movie a unique art style. I really can’t believe anyone could look at games like Skyward Sword, BOTW, or TOTK and think “yes, we should adapt this in live action”.
Kayratorvi
Man this better not be the start of a slew of “NCU” posts here even though the simple fact that this movie is live-action totally destroys any chance of a universe joining event between Nintendo IP.
halloweenjon
This is gonna be really, really hard to get right. How do you cast Link? What’s it gonna be like to hear him talk? Which game’s story do they adapt?
shrek3onDVDandBluray
Mario was mid – played it safe and did not take any chances whatsoever. Given Sony and avi rad, I expect the same here or worse.
Pen_dragons_pizza
Ffs just get an anime made in the style of princess monokee
Fluffy_Speech_8567
jesus christ its not bait
Arcade_Rave
Not looking forward to this, I don’t think live action is the way to go for something like Zelda which has experimented with various beautiful looking visuals. I don’t even think CGI could do it justice, an anime with an art style similar to BOTW/TOTK would look amazing.
Arkrus
If Nintendo is in the driver’s seat, this is gonna be epic
Groundtsuchi
Kinda tired to see american glued to the direction of those movies. Zelda is kinda japanese a lot in its philosophy. It could have been directed by other nationalities than americans.
EastComprehensive567
After all these years, this is how link finally speaks.
Oh nooooooo
dude19832
You know it’s either going to be an adaptation of Ocarina of Time or Breath of the Wild. Avi Arad is a terrible producer. Yes, Spider-Man 1 and 2 are great but ever since Spider-Man 3, he has been straight up garbage. Both Amazing Spider-Man movies were not good, especially the second. Both Venom movies are awful. Morbius was a train wreck. The list goes on and on. Yikes!!!!
ColdFusion363
I would prefer an animated film. But this will do. Who knows. Tom Holland as Link.
MarvelManiac45213
I wish I could get more excited but it’s with Sony/Avi Arad. Avi Arad the same man responsible for Venom, Venom: Let there be Carnage, Morbius, Spider-Man 3, and Amazing Spider-Man 2. Sony the same studio with bringing such great videogame adaptations to the screen like Uncharted, Gran Tourismo, Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, The Milla Jovovich Resident Evil series, and the Ratchet & Clank movie. Not to mention can anyone name one good live-action Sony movie period not named Spider-Man?
Why does Nintendo keep teaming up with the most bottom of the barrel movie studios? First Illumination probably the worst animation house out there and we ended up getting a very mid ho-hum Mario Movie out of it. Now we get Zelda with Illumination. Can’t wait for the Metroid movie by Blumhouse..
BulkDarthDan
Please don’t have Tom Holland Please don’t have Tom Holland Please don’t have Tom Holland Please don’t have Tom Holland Please don’t have Tom Holland
Luck88
This is genuinely one of my worst nightmares. You have a series with a wealth of artstyle and decide to go Live Action. After your first breakout success movie was animated, this makes no sense.
Milksteak_To_Go
Nintendo, you don’t have to do this. I promise you that Zelda isn’t going to translate to the big screen half as well as Mario did.
tonyking318
I’m more worried about the screen writer and the director than Avi Arad
44 Comments
Live action? WHY??? Have you not seen what they did to Dragonball and Avatar? Mystical worlds are very difficult to translate into live-action. I’m extremely skeptical about this. It really should have been classic animation or CGI.
Well, this was very unexpected.
I’m not going to lie.. live action really hurts this for me… now ofcourse we know nothing about it and everyone is gonna have their opinions but Animated would have been the way to go if you ask me.
Avi Arad…it’s so over
Wes Ball was announced as the director. He’s so far only done the Maze Runner trilogy which wasn’t too well received. He’s the director of the next Planet of the Apes movie so we’ll see if he’s improved.
it’s joever
Really disappointed that a series well-known for it’s wealth of different art styles isn’t being adapted in a gorgeous animated artsyle
I will hold all judgements and opinions until I see trailer.
I think they lucked out with Mario as it’s inherently a goofy thing so they could lean into animated comedy. Zelda would have to be more serious and I can’t see that going well
I would have personally preferred an animated movie or series with the style of the Link’s Awakening remake.
But it’s MUCH too early to tell how this will turn out.
In theory a Legend of Zelda film shouldn’t be hard. Do some swordfighting, some adventuring, have Link do a big climactic fight with Ganon and save the world and we’re good. People can say Zelda plot doesn’t work in live action but action films have hardly ever relied on deep, complex plots to engage people.
Make cool action/adventure set pieces, make it look good, do the minimum necessary plot and it’ll make bank.
I’m gonna be cautious with this here, I was cautious with Mario but I was proven wrong their, but this? A live action movie with link, Zelda and ganondorf played by Hollywood actors is something I’m not looking forward to, but I’ll wait and I hope I’m proved wrong
Well, I guess at least it’s not Illumination
Why is everyone crying over it being a live action film ?
I don’t get why everyone’s pissy about it being live-action. If there’s any Nintendo franchise that would work live-action, it’s Zelda. I, for one, am just glad they didn’t throw this one down the toilet by giving it to Illumination too.
Curious to see how it’s paced. The Zelda IP seems more inclined to a television series. Each episode is the first half him solving side quest type stuff and the second being a dungeon.
I am very curious about how they will do it. This is one of the few franchises that I cannot imagine how it’s gonna work on a live action. I hope there’s a team of geniuses working on this, otherwise we’re screwed.
Dang, I wish it was animated. I feel like that would’ve worked way better than live-action. DreamWorks would have been my ideal choice to do this.
I just hope it’s good. I suppose quality matters way more than whether it’s animated or not.
Get Scorsese to do it
There’s no way I won’t watch the film but I’m really unhappy about the decision to go with live-action. I am not expecting this to go well. TLoZ will not translate well to live-action. Should have been animated and it should have been Ghibli. There is no person alive who I can imagine as Link. Not one.
I can’t wait for Chris Pratt Link
For everyone that is saying this is so unexpected and out of left field… let me remind you Nintendo already tried doing this with Netflix like a decade ago (alongside a robotchicken-like starfox show). This is not “out of left field” at all; most people just don’t like the idea of Zelda not being anime or animated.
Personally, I’m pretty excited about the live action decision and I think if they get this right it could be one of the greatest movies period.
Everyone being negative already. Shocked. I think this could be great. Wait until first trailer. Everyone thought Mario would be crap too.
Please, please, no recognizable actors for this, I’m begging you. I wasn’t a huge fan of the Sequel trilogy but one thing I loved about the first film is that the new cast was made up of relatively unknown actors.
I’m only saying this because the Mario movie was full of big name talents. If I see Tom Holland as Link, Zendaya as Zelda, and Jason Momoa as Ganondorf my stomach’s gonna turn.
Also gonna parrot a lot of other people and say I would’ve preferred an animated film. I’d have done an anime movie, BotW and TotK already look like Ghibli films. A bit of a shame.
The worst outcome
Lost me at live action. We’re fucked.
Live action, by Sony Pictures, produced by Avi Arad. I’m burning my house down.
Edit: I’m not sure if it’s because the people in this thread don’t know about the movie industry but they pretty much picked the worst people in town to go with. I understand not giving it to Illumination, duh, but Sony Pictures Animation is right there. Or even Dreamworks if they wanted to keep their pre-existing relationship with Universal. Something animated with the care of Puss In Boots: The Last Wish, The Spider-Verse movies or the recent TMNT film would’ve worked best. Combining an anime art style with western animation techniques could’ve given this movie a unique art style. I really can’t believe anyone could look at games like Skyward Sword, BOTW, or TOTK and think “yes, we should adapt this in live action”.
Man this better not be the start of a slew of “NCU” posts here even though the simple fact that this movie is live-action totally destroys any chance of a universe joining event between Nintendo IP.
This is gonna be really, really hard to get right. How do you cast Link? What’s it gonna be like to hear him talk? Which game’s story do they adapt?
Mario was mid – played it safe and did not take any chances whatsoever. Given Sony and avi rad, I expect the same here or worse.
Ffs just get an anime made in the style of princess monokee
jesus christ its not bait
Not looking forward to this, I don’t think live action is the way to go for something like Zelda which has experimented with various beautiful looking visuals. I don’t even think CGI could do it justice, an anime with an art style similar to BOTW/TOTK would look amazing.
If Nintendo is in the driver’s seat, this is gonna be epic
Kinda tired to see american glued to the direction of those movies. Zelda is kinda japanese a lot in its philosophy. It could have been directed by other nationalities than americans.
After all these years, this is how link finally speaks.
Oh nooooooo
You know it’s either going to be an adaptation of Ocarina of Time or Breath of the Wild. Avi Arad is a terrible producer. Yes, Spider-Man 1 and 2 are great but ever since Spider-Man 3, he has been straight up garbage. Both Amazing Spider-Man movies were not good, especially the second. Both Venom movies are awful. Morbius was a train wreck. The list goes on and on. Yikes!!!!
I would prefer an animated film. But this will do. Who knows. Tom Holland as Link.
I wish I could get more excited but it’s with Sony/Avi Arad. Avi Arad the same man responsible for Venom, Venom: Let there be Carnage, Morbius, Spider-Man 3, and Amazing Spider-Man 2. Sony the same studio with bringing such great videogame adaptations to the screen like Uncharted, Gran Tourismo, Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, The Milla Jovovich Resident Evil series, and the Ratchet & Clank movie. Not to mention can anyone name one good live-action Sony movie period not named Spider-Man?
Why does Nintendo keep teaming up with the most bottom of the barrel movie studios? First Illumination probably the worst animation house out there and we ended up getting a very mid ho-hum Mario Movie out of it. Now we get Zelda with Illumination. Can’t wait for the Metroid movie by Blumhouse..
Please don’t have Tom Holland Please don’t have Tom Holland Please don’t have Tom Holland Please don’t have Tom Holland Please don’t have Tom Holland
This is genuinely one of my worst nightmares. You have a series with a wealth of artstyle and decide to go Live Action. After your first breakout success movie was animated, this makes no sense.
Nintendo, you don’t have to do this. I promise you that Zelda isn’t going to translate to the big screen half as well as Mario did.
I’m more worried about the screen writer and the director than Avi Arad
Oh. No.