Live-Action The Legend of Zelda Movie is in Development - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 07 November 2023 / 3,497 Views
Nintendo has announced a live-action The Legend of Zelda movie is in development.
The film will be produced by Nintendo and Arad Productions, and directed by Wes Ball. It will be produced by the Representative Director and Fellow of Nintendo Shigeru Miyamoto and the Chairman of Arad Productions Avi Arad.
The movie will be co-financed by Nintendo and Sony Pictures Entertainment, with Nintendo financing over 50 percent of it. Sony Pictures Entertainment will distribute the movie worldwide.
"By producing visual contents of Nintendo IP by itself, Nintendo is creating new opportunities to have people from around the world to access the world of entertainment which Nintendo has built, through different means apart from its dedicated game consoles," reads the announcement post.
"By getting deeply involved in the movie production with the aim to put smiles on everyone’s faces through entertainment, Nintendo will continue its efforts to produce unique entertainment and deliver it to as many people as possible."
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saw this coming after Mario success
Fom Sony lol
I think it is Sony because the producer is the same one who produced the Spider-Verse movies.
For the record, I have low expectations for this project...
Major loss for Universal. I thought they would have locked up the movie rights to most NIntendo IPs based on how close they are and how successful the Mario movie and Nintendo Land have been.
The people attached to this... oh boy.
Avi Arad is pretty rough as a producer, if you look through his production credits you'll see some good movies (such as the Raimi Spider-Man trilogy and the Spider-Verse movies), but mostly meh or bad movies (most of the non-MCU Sony Marvel movies he produced, and most of those movies ranged from meh to bad, he also produced the meh Ghost in the Shell live-action movie ).
As for the director, Wes Ball, he has directed only 3 movies so far, the Mazerunner trilogy, all 3 of which got middling reviews. He also directed next years Planet of the Apes movie, we'll have to see how it turns out.
I’m a bit sad it’s live action. But hope it turns out good! Most importantly though will Link talk?
Avi arad is hit and miss, and i am seeing him clashing with Miyamoto , this might not even see the light of day if nintendo feels the dude is trashing the ip.
Imagine if this was deal with disney, imagine the pandering lmao
Ps: animated would be way better.
If its anything even remotely close to quality bar of the Spiderverse movies I'm all in. The production values should be off the charts!
Interesting news! Live-action is a risk though, I thought they’d go for animated. Live action could either be the best thing ever or extremely cheesy. Production values need to be through the roof. Costumes, sets and effects need to be top notch, meaning it should have a huge budget.
oh good! I was worried they'd do an animated zelda, which simply would have been the wrong choice for this IP. If they do it well this could be a major fantasy movie like LotR, Marvel, HP, etc. The Mario movie was great but live action Zelda could really cement Nintendo as a cinema powerhouse. Awesome to hear they already have it in the works soon after the Mario movie and they chose the best format for it!
Ughh, that's the wrong format in multiple ways. An animated TV series would have been the way to go
Well excuuuse me.
Live action!? Realy!?
Link talking and portrayed as a real person!? Maze runner director!?
Dude, red flags, red flags Everywhere! Why not make this animated like Mario movie? It fits so much better with Zelda.
I hope they at least have the brains to choose OoT over the mess that is BoTW storywise.
Edit: Come to think of it, BoTW has practically no story and this creates the opportunity for something original. Perhaps they can fill the absolute "void of non-existence" that is BoTW story and make movie adaptation easier, might not be a bad idea.
