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

[ILikeFeet]

On the one hand, good. They are avoiding falling into the LOTR trap, which is absolutely not the right approach for Zelda.

On the other hand, there is something inherently perverse in "live-action Miyazaki" which makes you question why we are doing this in the first place.

probably because they're not looking at Miyazaki from a medium standpoint, but a filmic technique

 

[Raccoon]

it really ends up being much further removed from reality. it’s part of why everything feels so hollow. tv shows made by tv-show-watchers. echoes of echoes of echoes.

ironically this is something miyazaki has complained about

Ghibli’s Hayao Miyazaki says the anime industry’s problem is that it’s full of anime fans

It’s hard to imagine legendary anime director Hayao Miyazaki needing to be any more lauded than he already is. Over 95 percent of Japan's population has watched one of his movies, people see uploading his films to the Internet as being the fast track to popularity, and he’s even got a celestial...

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[AngryAlchemist]

A live action Ghibli movie is a terrible pitch. Miyazaki's movies don't have particularly great scripts, they're enjoyable for their atmosphere and animation and their stories often hang on a thread. Not the sort of thing you get from blockbuster live action movies at all, you'd need to have like an auteur film maker do it and even then I would be skeptical.

 

[catonkatonk]

I dunno, a movie that has an extremely thin story but is high on atmosphere sounds like the ideal for me.

 

[ILikeFeet]

That's how people have been describing BotW and TotK, so it tracks