The Legend of Zelda Live-Action Movie Gets First Official Photos - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 17 November 2025 / 2,411 Views
Nintendo has released the first official photos of the upcoming live-action The Legend of Zelda movie on the Nintendo Today app.
Production on the film started earlier this month in New Zealand. Benjamin Evan Ainsworth (Everything's Going to Be Great, Everything's Going to Be Great) is playing Link and Bo Bragason ( Renegade Nell, Three Girls) is playing Zelda.
The live-action The Legend of Zelda movie is set to premiere in theaters on May 7, 2027. it is directed by Maze Runner director Wes Ball.
View the photos below:
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Hoping for the best, preparing for the worst.
Mario talks quite a lot in some games, though to us it sounds usually like gibberish Italian. Especially in the Mario and Luigi games, they both talk to eachother. Link canonically almost never talks, due to being shy and under a lot of pressure in BOTW. That's quite the difference between them.
They definitely nailed the look
Looks like an Amazon Prime show. Also not far off from the IGN fake movie in 2008.
Awesome!!
Love to see it!! :) I’m so excited to see this film. Crazy to think May 2027 is only just over a year away.
So they went to New Zealand, that’s one page they took from the LotR playbook. Hopefully they take a whole bunch of others. I’m still weary, this has a lot of potential to just end up looking like some cheesy fan thing.
Obviously, we won't have anything truly solid to go on until we get that first teaser trailer.
But just based off photography - This looks amazing!
The casting department absolutely killed it with Benjamin Evan Ainsworth and Bo Bragason.
They truly look like Link and Zelda!
Look amazing :)
That grass looks so cutable, great! Now where are the pots?
I'm not worried about the producer, writers, or actors. I just wish they'd worked with Universal.
Actually doesn't look bad so far.
The world looks too empty.....just kidding. Looks great.
Looks good, still wish they went with 2D Traditional Animation or even 3D Animation but I'm hoping for the best
