Zelda movie will be “massive” for Nintendo says Sony.
Zelda movie will be “massive” for Nintendo says Sony.
by Riomegon
26 Comments
Riomegon
**DEADLINE:** *Based what you’re saying about movies needing to be great, people have looked at giant video games as IP and often, it has not worked. How does Zelda adhere to what you’ve said about freshness?*
**ROTHMAN:** *Because the movie is being developed and made in the closest possible collaboration with [Nintendo video game designer] Shigeru Miyamoto. He’s a true genius in that world, and it’s really his strong vision that is motivating it. He created it and understands it thoroughly. You only to look at the results of Super Mario Brothers to see. The larger point I’m making is that I think a healthy slate going forward is not going to be one side of the divide or the other. It’s going to have a balance of big IP solid sequels. Let me tell you when the last of the Spider-Verse movies comes with Phil Lord and Chris Miller, it’s going to be a significant event, as will the next Tom Holland Spider-Man film. And when all the Karate Kid storylines come together with Ralph Macchio and Jackie Chan and a new young karate kid. For those fans, that’s going to be a significant moment. We have those. The third and last Venom, is going to be huge.
But I just believe that the real win for us is to have a slate that balances those movies with some of the more adventurous stuff. There’s a significant segment of the audience out there, which is underserved for adventurousness. They’re underserved for newness, they’re underserved for cultural urgency.*
Cripnite
Sony and Nintendo working together.
How long until Nintendo ditches them again.
Brandeaux7
Nintendo says sony!? 🌚
DarkAres02
I hope it’s better than the Mario movie
colostitute
I don’t trust Sony to not fuck this up.
cloudlocke_OG
Nintendo ditches Sony Computer Entertainment, as Nintendo ditches Sony Pictures for……..????
GrimmTrixX
It could arguably be a terrible adaptation. First off they would have to select a particular game to follow. It’s not like Mario where it can be a mish-mash of ideas as long as we are ein the mushroom kingdom. Each Zelda game is very story driven.
So unless they take the original Zelda game, and just flesh it out with more story so they can do something original, I don’t know how it’s gonna go I remain hopeful as I enjoyed the Mario movie. But if Link is gonna talk, it could already cause problems. That is, unless he says “Well Excuuuuse me princess!” at least once.
Meanwhile, I am still holding out hope for a Metroid sci-fi/horror film.
jubmille2000
The last time Nintendo worked with Sony, it failed and gave us Zelda cdi and the playstation.
So uhh… I’m excited bow
Negan-Cliffhanger
I’ve been a huge fan since the first Legend of Zelda on NES but I just don’t see it becoming a smash hit movie, especially not as a live action one. Link’s a silent protagonist and that alone will alienate a chunk of the audience no matter how it’s handled.
careasthmatc
In other news, the sky remains blue
toadfan64
My biggest complaint is that it’s live action tbh. An anime Zelda film could’ve looked beautiful.
inteliboy
No matter what, it just won’t live up to what is in fans heads… years if not decades of the games stirring in our imaginations… for it all to be distilled in a Sony produced Hollywood live action movie… Just can’t see it working.
bigpig1054
I have a lot of faith in Wes Ball. There were times, watching Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, especially the first act, where I thought “I can see how this is like a dry run for how he would do a Zelda movie.”
Adi_San
What I see for this movie is that they lean in heavy on what courage really is about. It is not “the absence of fear but the triumph over it” type of thing.
We could have a young boy constantly fearful of everything, bullied and made fun of for it. Someone weak and the last one being picked for games by his peers.
He is suddenly thrown into this quest that he doesn’t want to be part of.
He is constantly in doubt every step of the way, every new challenge/ monster/ donjons but he tries and does it anyway. He has no choice but to move forward. His fights are messy, clumsy and oftentimes lucky.
Slowly he builds confidence, he fights better, smarter, he grows up.
It should be something about starting from a place of weakness and growing through it. Something a lot of people would related to and a good lesson for children as well.
Big fan of the series and this is just my two cent. I just hope they won’t go with a Link who is already a hero part of the royal guard and have his shit figured out like in the two last games (Love those games regardless).
PaisleyComputer
It’s Morbin time!
HyliasHero
I don’t think it will terrible based on what we’ve been hearing, but it still hurts my soul that it is going to be live-action. Zelda’s flavor of fantasy is *much* better suited to an animated format.
TheDarkCreed
No. It would be “massive” for you to get it right.
Jona_cc
I hope they stop hyping it. More hype more dissatisfaction 🙁
echoess84
>Zelda movie will be “massive” for Nintendo says Sony.
lol by the title seems Sony kidnapp Zelda by Nintendo XD
Anyway the hardest thing in my opinion is create a living Hyrule
Due_Teaching_6974
Imagine Ghibli styled Zelda movie (kinda like Princess Mononoke) that’d be amazing
ohbyerly
*People who stand everything to benefit from movie doing well say good things about movie*
ZedZeroth
I wonder if they’ll time the release with the next Zelda game on Switch 2?
thewinneroflife
I hate that every single update about this movie is flooded with comments about the fact that it’s live action. It’s not animated, they’re not gonna change it to be, and even if they did there no chance in hell it would be Ghibli. It’s boring discourse already and the movie is probably at least two years away.
Zelda fans when the franchise all about changing it’s style every iteration tries a new style: 🤬🤬🤬
Smolivenom
no its going to ruin it all in a flash.
zelda is NOT a suitable series to turn into a movie.
Zephyrus-Dragmire
The Zelda movie is going to be atrocious, the director, screen writer and producer are all terrible and it’s going to be live action.
I love Zelda as a franchise but I won’t be buying into this shit show.
I guess that won’t matter as they now have tons of newb fans from the open world games.
26 Comments
**DEADLINE:** *Based what you’re saying about movies needing to be great, people have looked at giant video games as IP and often, it has not worked. How does Zelda adhere to what you’ve said about freshness?*
**ROTHMAN:** *Because the movie is being developed and made in the closest possible collaboration with [Nintendo video game designer] Shigeru Miyamoto. He’s a true genius in that world, and it’s really his strong vision that is motivating it. He created it and understands it thoroughly. You only to look at the results of Super Mario Brothers to see. The larger point I’m making is that I think a healthy slate going forward is not going to be one side of the divide or the other. It’s going to have a balance of big IP solid sequels. Let me tell you when the last of the Spider-Verse movies comes with Phil Lord and Chris Miller, it’s going to be a significant event, as will the next Tom Holland Spider-Man film. And when all the Karate Kid storylines come together with Ralph Macchio and Jackie Chan and a new young karate kid. For those fans, that’s going to be a significant moment. We have those. The third and last Venom, is going to be huge.
But I just believe that the real win for us is to have a slate that balances those movies with some of the more adventurous stuff. There’s a significant segment of the audience out there, which is underserved for adventurousness. They’re underserved for newness, they’re underserved for cultural urgency.*
Sony and Nintendo working together.
How long until Nintendo ditches them again.
Nintendo says sony!? 🌚
I hope it’s better than the Mario movie
I don’t trust Sony to not fuck this up.
Nintendo ditches Sony Computer Entertainment, as Nintendo ditches Sony Pictures for……..????
It could arguably be a terrible adaptation. First off they would have to select a particular game to follow. It’s not like Mario where it can be a mish-mash of ideas as long as we are ein the mushroom kingdom. Each Zelda game is very story driven.
So unless they take the original Zelda game, and just flesh it out with more story so they can do something original, I don’t know how it’s gonna go I remain hopeful as I enjoyed the Mario movie. But if Link is gonna talk, it could already cause problems. That is, unless he says “Well Excuuuuse me princess!” at least once.
Meanwhile, I am still holding out hope for a Metroid sci-fi/horror film.
The last time Nintendo worked with Sony, it failed and gave us Zelda cdi and the playstation.
So uhh… I’m excited bow
I’ve been a huge fan since the first Legend of Zelda on NES but I just don’t see it becoming a smash hit movie, especially not as a live action one. Link’s a silent protagonist and that alone will alienate a chunk of the audience no matter how it’s handled.
In other news, the sky remains blue
My biggest complaint is that it’s live action tbh. An anime Zelda film could’ve looked beautiful.
No matter what, it just won’t live up to what is in fans heads… years if not decades of the games stirring in our imaginations… for it all to be distilled in a Sony produced Hollywood live action movie… Just can’t see it working.
I have a lot of faith in Wes Ball. There were times, watching Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, especially the first act, where I thought “I can see how this is like a dry run for how he would do a Zelda movie.”
What I see for this movie is that they lean in heavy on what courage really is about. It is not “the absence of fear but the triumph over it” type of thing.
We could have a young boy constantly fearful of everything, bullied and made fun of for it. Someone weak and the last one being picked for games by his peers.
He is suddenly thrown into this quest that he doesn’t want to be part of.
He is constantly in doubt every step of the way, every new challenge/ monster/ donjons but he tries and does it anyway. He has no choice but to move forward. His fights are messy, clumsy and oftentimes lucky.
Slowly he builds confidence, he fights better, smarter, he grows up.
It should be something about starting from a place of weakness and growing through it. Something a lot of people would related to and a good lesson for children as well.
Big fan of the series and this is just my two cent. I just hope they won’t go with a Link who is already a hero part of the royal guard and have his shit figured out like in the two last games (Love those games regardless).
It’s Morbin time!
I don’t think it will terrible based on what we’ve been hearing, but it still hurts my soul that it is going to be live-action. Zelda’s flavor of fantasy is *much* better suited to an animated format.
No. It would be “massive” for you to get it right.
I hope they stop hyping it. More hype more dissatisfaction 🙁
>Zelda movie will be “massive” for Nintendo says Sony.
lol by the title seems Sony kidnapp Zelda by Nintendo XD
Anyway the hardest thing in my opinion is create a living Hyrule
Imagine Ghibli styled Zelda movie (kinda like Princess Mononoke) that’d be amazing
*People who stand everything to benefit from movie doing well say good things about movie*
I wonder if they’ll time the release with the next Zelda game on Switch 2?
I hate that every single update about this movie is flooded with comments about the fact that it’s live action. It’s not animated, they’re not gonna change it to be, and even if they did there no chance in hell it would be Ghibli. It’s boring discourse already and the movie is probably at least two years away.
Zelda fans when the franchise all about changing it’s style every iteration tries a new style: 🤬🤬🤬
no its going to ruin it all in a flash.
zelda is NOT a suitable series to turn into a movie.
The Zelda movie is going to be atrocious, the director, screen writer and producer are all terrible and it’s going to be live action.
I love Zelda as a franchise but I won’t be buying into this shit show.
I guess that won’t matter as they now have tons of newb fans from the open world games.
Femboy Link is beggin for a Netflix adaptation.