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News Nintendo officially announces live-action Zelda film, produced by Shigeru Miyamoto and Avi Arad, directed by Wes Ball

Christo750 said:
The story they're adapting has to be Ocarina of Time, right? or at least heavily based on it?
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If they're actually adopting a story, it's not like we'd be able to really discern it between the original, OOT , LTTP or several others anyway, since it'll only be at the very broad strokes level
 
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What the hell has Wes Ball done for Hollywood to give him the keys to these big properties? He's apparently also directing the next Planet of the Apes that comes out next year, and all dude's ever done are those mediocre af Maze Runner movies
 
Live-action has me way down, not gonna lie. Would have loved an animated adaptation. I guess I just have a hard time imagining how they are going to pull TLoZ off in this format, including hitting the right tone, but I'd love to be proven wrong.
 
Plum said:
I can also see them going with something close to the Twilight Princess look for Link.

OoT Link would be too goofy for a live-action modern film and BotW's Link - whilst great - is not the iconic green.
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Blue is now the iconic Link.
 
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Plum said:
I can also see them going with something close to the Twilight Princess look for Link.

OoT Link would be too goofy for a live-action modern film and BotW's Link - whilst great - is not the iconic green.
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I actually think his look will be a mix of OoT and BotW. It'll be green, but no hat. That dumb hat never looks good in live action.

Watching the recent Apes trailer, I think this will lean into being VERY colorful. OoT feels right as the base. The idea of Young and Adult Link in the story feels cool, too. But we'll see what they do.
 
My guess is they will cast a relative unknown for Link and Zelda. They’re gonna want to at least have one sequel baked in, but the Zelda timeline does give them license to casually reboot it like Bond every few years.
 
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Nintendo getting the downer news out there now before dropping the megaton wind Waker HD port at the game awards

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I’ll still watch it but live action will suck for this kind of IP. Maybe we’ll get Zelda Lego sets soon too to really get to the “Zelda multimedia universe” goal.
 
They announced what now?!

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Slash said:
Why are people thinking this will be bad? Was the Mario movie by Illumination bad?
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It was great. It’s the usual negative responses you’ll see on the internet when something is initially announced. Nintendo overlooking this whole thing will make it turn out great.
 
Saw the title and felt my heart plummet. I want to believe, but I'm operating on zero faith right now. Convince me.

I also just didn't want live-action anything (animation is not a lesser medium!), but we don't always get what we want.
 
Bokuringo said:
Now, this came out of nothing. I want to see the cast.

It will be Tom Holland, won't it?
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I hope not. I'm guessing they're going to go the young adult route. If they were going with a teen link than that Percy Jackson kid could be possible.
 
Sadist said:
Wes Ball’s credits aren’t looking too hot
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For what it's worth, the Maze Runner movies were pretty great adaptations of the books. And he's directing the new Planet of the Apes movie coming out next year.
 
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I just realized that Link is 100% going to talk normally in this for the first time since the CDi. There is no universe where they have the guts to go even BotW levels of canonically silent protagonist.

The whole theater is gonna cheer when they have him say the princess line.
 
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Plum said:
OoT Link would be too goofy for a live-action modern film and BotW's Link - whilst great - is not the iconic green.
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If you want the really terrifying news, breath of the wild and the new heros look in blue was first seen fast approaching a decade ago. We've had the new blue look for longer than the time between OOT and TP
 
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Slash said:
Why are people thinking this will be bad? Was the Mario movie by Illumination bad?
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some are anti-live action but mostly it's Avi Arad.

However, I'm guessing Miyamoto and Nintendo will have significant creative control.
 
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Keep in mind, this is Sony Pictures distributing the film, not Sony Interactive Entertainment, which is PlayStation.
 
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The should've went with Uni for a live action and Sony for animation but they did the opposite, literally the worst of both worlds

Slash said:
Why are people thinking this will be bad? Was the Mario movie by Illumination bad?
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Yes
 
I recall this getting out not that long ago. Obviously not with all these specifics. Was that rumor denied by Nintendo at the time?

Edit: Also, live action Zelda doesn't sound great! So long as they don’t use the classic tunic it has a chance at not looking terrible…

Most living things in Zelda games aren’t human (hylian), so I’m curious how they approach CG here. Hyper realistic Zora and Goron designs sounds gross.
 
Since it's Sony and the Spider-Man people, we're 100% getting Tom Holland as Link and Zendaya as Zelda. This is going to be the worst fucking movie ever made and we're all going to have to agree to never speak about it again.
 
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Wes Ball is... a choice. The Maze Runner movies stink but maybe he can redeem himself with Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. Until then it's difficult to get excited about this.
 
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I'm thinking that the decision to do live-action means that Miyamoto wants to really lean heavily on the natural labyrinths in real life that inspired the original Legend of Zelda. My expectations are that the story is going to be serviceable, but the focus will be on the environmental set pieces to invoke the same feeling of mystery and exploration that the Zelda games generally try to aim for.
 
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I was confident Zelda would turn out being live action and not animated so that's uh, something positive i'm getting out of this.

Immense fear from reading Avi Arad-san in the tweets though.
 
I mean, I thought the Mario movie was going to suck and it ended up entirely serviceable 6 out of 10, so maybe this too can be merely mediocre.
 
Who has the chops to bring Link's masterful dialogue of screams, shouts and grunts to life on the big screen?
 
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