Live Action Legend of Zelda movie worldwide release date confirmed.

[HextarVigar]

Meh. I'd care if they would make Zelda in the 90 with Joe Pesci as Link.

Only if they let him swear and start fights.

 

[Zerpina]

Calling it now. the movie won't be half as good as this

 

[ATenderLad]

Only if they let him swear and start fights.

"You know, I think you got the wrong impression about me. I think in all fairness, I should explain to you exactly what it is that I do. For instance tomorrow morning I'll get up when the cucco crows, take a walk down over to the Water Temple and... walk in and see and, uh... if you don't have my Triforce for me, I'll... crack your fucking head wide open in front of everybody in Hyrule. And just about the time that I'm coming out of the Dark World, hopefully, you'll be coming out of your coma. And guess what? I'll split your fucking head open again. 'Cause I'm fucking stupid. I don't give a fuck about Ganon. That's my business. That's what I do. And we know what you do, don't we, Dark Link? You fuck people out of heart containers and get away with it."

 

[Zerpina]

"You know, I think you got the wrong impression about me. I think in all fairness, I should explain to you exactly what it is that I do. For instance tomorrow morning I'll get up when the cucco crows, take a walk down over to the Water Temple and... walk in and see and, uh... if you don't have my Triforce for me, I'll... crack your fucking head wide open in front of everybody in Hyrule. And just about the time that I'm coming out of the Dark World, hopefully, you'll be coming out of your coma. And guess what? I'll split your fucking head open again. 'Cause I'm fucking stupid. I don't give a fuck about Ganon. That's my business. That's what I do. And we know what you do, don't we, Dark Link? You fuck people out of heart containers and get away with it."

nono more like

Title: The Legend of Zelda: The Quest for the Ultimate Selfie
INT. DILAPIDATED TEMPLE - DAY

NARRATOR (V.O.) In a world where no one reads the terms and conditions, meet LINK, a brooding hero who only cares about getting likes on social media. He wears a bedazzled tunic with “#HyruleLife” emblazoned on the back.

LINK (mid-20s, ruggedly handsome) scrolls through his phone while sitting on an ancient stone throne in the temple. He taps “Like” on his latest post showing him standing next to a moody dragon selfie.

LINK (rolling his eyes) Y’all don’t even know how hard it is to slay Ganon and still find time for my morning coffee and iced avocado toast.

Suddenly, ZELDA (early 20s, sassy and tech-savvy) bursts in, wearing a futuristic armor that looks like it came straight from a cosplay convention.

ZELDA - Link! Stop scrolling! Ganon just dropped a TikTok challenge, and if we don’t beat him, he’ll take over the whole internet!

That'll be more like what it will be @ATenderLad

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Ok. joking aside. This, from 16 Years ago, could have been Badass.
Nintendo should have threw money at this idea

 

[Tonberry]

I probably won’t be caring or thinking about this from this point on. I don’t really know how they could do Zelda justice in that format since it’s such a videogamey game, even in the entries with a lot of narrative.
Then again there have always been manga adaptations of Zelda where some have been really good. I guess it’s more the live-action part irks me.

Zelda is such a hand-crafted and intimate series that I can’t see how it wouldn’t lose a lot of that identity when real people dress up as the characters and jump around with special effects and whatnot. If anything I’d love for them to cast nobodies instead of big names, but that doesn’t seem to be how nu-Nintendo thinks.

Link is all of us, not one specific person portraying him.

Edit: Oh, actually, Mackenyu would be pretty great!

I’d hope not. This guy is such an abysmal actor. He was by far the worst part of the otherwise really well-cast One Piece show to me.

 

[ATenderLad]

nono more like

Title: The Legend of Zelda: The Quest for the Ultimate Selfie
INT. DILAPIDATED TEMPLE - DAY

NARRATOR (V.O.) In a world where no one reads the terms and conditions, meet LINK, a brooding hero who only cares about getting likes on social media. He wears a bedazzled tunic with “#HyruleLife” emblazoned on the back.

LINK (mid-20s, ruggedly handsome) scrolls through his phone while sitting on an ancient stone throne in the temple. He taps “Like” on his latest post showing him standing next to a moody dragon selfie.

LINK (rolling his eyes) Y’all don’t even know how hard it is to slay Ganon and still find time for my morning coffee and iced avocado toast.

Suddenly, ZELDA (early 20s, sassy and tech-savvy) bursts in, wearing a futuristic armor that looks like it came straight from a cosplay convention.

ZELDA - Link! Stop scrolling! Ganon just dropped a TikTok challenge, and if we don’t beat him, he’ll take over the whole internet!

I *do* love a good "Babe we gotta go save The Internet/Space/Mushroom Kingdom".

Ok. joking aside. This, from 16 Years ago, could have been Badass.
Nintendo should have threw money at this idea

It's such a pop culture time capsule, you can see the Lord of the Rings Extended Edition all over it.


EDIT: @Tonberry I haven't watched One Piece, but I thought he was pretty great in that Ruroni Kenshin movie.

 

[Zerpina]

It's such a pop culture time capsule, you can see the Lord of the Rings Extended Edition all over it.

Absolutely. but that would have made more sense than whatever Modern Audience writer will do to it.
Now if Nintendo is Directly involved. it has a chance at least to be good/decent.
If not... well Mario Bros the movie all over again.

Edit and wouldn't i Don't know... Freaking Metroid do better as a Live action movie?

 

[BunnyLain]

Cringe.

 

[Tonberry]

I haven't watched One Piece, but I thought he was pretty great in that Ruroni Kenshin movie.

He didn’t fit Zoro at all in any case. He just stood still and talked way lower than his voice actually could. Just felt really poorly casted, whereas the rest of the cast was actually really good. All of the other actors did the explosive/goofy OP energy, but he acted as if he was in a crime drama lol

 

[ATenderLad]

Absolutely. but that would have made more sense than whatever Modern Audience writer will do to it.
Now if Nintendo is Directly involved. it has a chance at least to be good/decent.
If not... well Mario Bros the movie all over again.

Edit and wouldn't i Don't know... Freaking Metroid do better as a Live action movie?

Without the elements of player interaction, I have a hard time seeing most any Nintendo game becoming a compelling movie. That's not to say it can't be done, but they just weren't made with that medium in mind.

 

[Strategist's iconStrategist]

I think making video game adaptations into blockbuster Hollywood movies is the worst way to go. It forces the writers to go into the most banal storytelling tropes to make the material approachable to the normies. If it was a direct to streaming episodic show, they could tailor it to the fans and there would be less pressure to have crazy numbers.

 

[Jeanfranc]

If it was a direct to streaming episodic show, they could tailor it to the fans and there would be less pressure to have crazy numbers.

No, even when it actually is a tv show or a streamed one it's never like this, the people who make these shows NEVER play the games, they just don't care

"Castlevania" Warren Ellis Talks Series, Netflix, Dracula & More [Interview]

Noted author and "Castlevania" creator Warren Ellis took some time at New York Comic Con (NYCC) 2019 to sit down with Bleeding Cool to discuss the show.

bleedingcool.com

 

[Strategist's iconStrategist]

No, even when it actually is a tv show or a streamed one it's never like this, the people who make these shows NEVER play the games, they just don't care

"Castlevania" Warren Ellis Talks Series, Netflix, Dracula & More [Interview]

Noted author and "Castlevania" creator Warren Ellis took some time at New York Comic Con (NYCC) 2019 to sit down with Bleeding Cool to discuss the show.

bleedingcool.com

I've never watched the Castlevania show on Netflix but isn't it a well liked series? I don't think being ignorant about the series to start out with is necessarily a sign that it will fail, unless the director refuses to do any research about the games. It probably won't be the most faithful adaptation it could be but that isn't always a bad thing.

 

[Tonberry]

No, even when it actually is a tv show or a streamed one it's never like this, the people who make these shows NEVER play the games, they just don't care

"Castlevania" Warren Ellis Talks Series, Netflix, Dracula & More [Interview]

Noted author and "Castlevania" creator Warren Ellis took some time at New York Comic Con (NYCC) 2019 to sit down with Bleeding Cool to discuss the show.

bleedingcool.com

The ”make a movie/show out of a video game” pipeline seems to be filled with industry vampires who just want to have their name on a big IP.

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I've never watched the Castlevania show on Netflix but isn't it a well liked series? I don't think being ignorant about the series to start out with is necessarily a sign that it will fail, unless the director refuses to do any research about the games. It probably won't be the most faithful adaptation it could be but that isn't always a bad thing.

I checked out around the middle of the second season, but to me it felt too much like ”official fan fiction” while not going far enough into the source material, but at the same time doing these weird obscure pulls. Kind of felt like it was written by someone who browsed the wiki more than they played the games, but that feels par for the course when interpreting old video game stories.

Totally forgot they even made a second series until a few days ago.

 

[Jeff]

Thankfully that evil queen got fired I bet only brainless people would hire her.

Honestly I rather they gone same route as the new mario and made it an animated movie. I personalty think the Mario movie was great and it worked because it was animated.
In my opinion thinking how ridiculous games can be how much they break reality making them animated makes more sense as cartoons also break all laws of reality.


I bet Live action zelda will be as good as Dragon ball or Avatar the last fart bender.

The only way a live action Zelda movie would work is try to stick with the medieval/fantasy setting.

Have the movie be filmed in New Zealand where the Lord of the Rings films were filmed. Only thing is to not copy and paste Lord of the Rings with Zelda in the mix.

 

[Strategist's iconStrategist]

The ”make a movie/show out of a video game” pipeline seems to be filled with industry vampires who just want to have their name on a big IP.

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I checked out around the middle of the second season, but to me it felt too much like ”official fan fiction” while not going far enough into the source material, but at the same time doing these weird obscure pulls. Kind of felt like it was written by someone who browsed the wiki more than they played the games, but that feels par for the course when interpreting old video game stories.

Totally forgot they even made a second series until a few days ago.

Ah yeah, I know that feeling when they make a video game adaptation and its clear the writer/director has never played the game and doesn't understand the appeal of it.

 

[Bakuma1997]

My worst fear is a scene about a Octorok hitting Link in the groin and he saying with a squeaky voice "Just in the deku nuts"

 

[Zerpina]

Without the elements of player interaction, I have a hard time seeing most any Nintendo game becoming a compelling movie. That's not to say it can't be done, but they just weren't made with that medium in mind.

That's a fair point, but Metroid has a good enough story that it could be adapted to live action.

That's not to say Zelda doesn't; it has multiple timelines to work with, and each game has slight deviations in the story.
Metroid, though, in my opinion, would do much better. It's set in space, Samus actually talks, and there are aliens and what have you. I do think it would perform better.

Whereas many have stated, Zelda would do better adapted as an anime or an animated movie.

But no, Link is the everyman. He's kind of the self-insert character. You picture Link replying to things said as if you were him

 

[ATenderLad]

I've never watched the Castlevania show on Netflix but isn't it a well liked series? I don't think being ignorant about the series to start out with is necessarily a sign that it will fail, unless the director refuses to do any research about the games. It probably won't be the most faithful adaptation it could be but that isn't always a bad thing.

It's pretty decent. The initial season is maybe too gritty and grounded for a series where a guy bullwhips Universal movie monsters, but it makes a genuinely compelling figure out of Dracula himself. He's very much this doomed romantic figure, pitch-perfect Gothic in that sense.

Personally, I don't actually think people need to be fans to make something work. The best Star Trek movie came from a guy who didn't watch the show; he got the gig, watched a few episodes for the (Space) Seed of an idea and out popped Wrath of Khan.

I really just think there isn't even that much to most Nintendo series though, they're built so much around the idea of play. Mario is often putting on a show for the player specifically, with little theatrical details and flourishes.

(Although, a weird ass Mario movie about a show within a show a la Kiss Me Kate could be kinda cool).


@Zerpina Metroid probably could work, that's true. Super Metroid already has a pretty cinematic structure to it with the opening, and it would be easy to streamline the exploration into a single narrative. That's probably the best bet for a live-action Nintendo franchise, but woof, they'd need to commit to a generous budget to see it through.

 

[Strategist's iconStrategist]

It's pretty decent. The initial season is maybe too gritty and grounded for a series where a guy bullwhips Universal movie monsters, but it makes a genuinely compelling figure out of Dracula himself. He's very much this doomed romantic figure, pitch-perfect Gothic in that sense.

Personally, I don't actually think people need to be fans to make something work. The best Star Trek movie came from a guy who didn't watch the show; he got the gig, watched a few episodes for the (Space) Seed of an idea and out popped Wrath of Khan.

I really just think there isn't even that much to most Nintendo series though, they're built so much around the idea of play. Mario is often putting on a show for the player specifically, with little theatrical details and flourishes.

(Although, a weird ass Mario movie about a show within a show a la Kiss Me Kate could be kinda cool).

I think the only approach that makes sense for a live action Mario movie is to do so wacky surreal film ala Terry Gilliam's Brazil or Baron Munchausen. I think the 90's movie was sort of trying to do that but they didn't quite stick the landing.

 

[BunnyLain]

That's a fair point, but Metroid has a good enough story that it could be adapted to live action.

Like that part where samus gets so mad she turns into a metroid human hybrid or that part they fudged the translation to make the galactic federation look interesting only to undo it and then do the same plot again but assassinate all the characters by giving them too many lines? Or are we talking about metroid prime pinball?

I think what people mean when they think metroid has a good plot is that it's blank enough that you could do anything with it, as long as it has Samus blasting space pirates and a part where Ridley shows up to flex and have his theme hit its sting.

I personally think even a metroid movie would be fudged as hard as the zelda movie is gonna. Mario is inoffensive, the movie was enough to make me smile. I'm personally not a fan of video games adapted into movies. It's just a lot of multi media cross franchise stuff to drive sales like pokemon does.

Speaking of, Nintendo where's my Legend of Zelda CTCG? Surely you don't want to miss out on all that money. Also remember when you killed that cool Links awakening PCHD project? Or that AM2R? Good times...

 

[ATenderLad]

I think the only approach that makes sense for a live action Mario movie is to do so wacky surreal film ala Terry Gilliam's Brazil or Baron Munchausen. I think the 90's movie was sort of trying to do that but they didn't quite stick the landing.

They went through a bunch of ideas, I watched it with four separate commentary tracks for that article I never wrote but the initial "big idea" was this Rain Man-esque "Great American Roadtrip" with the Mario brothers. The eventual directors brought a pitch that was basically what we wound up with, but weirder on paper. (One of the many writers who contributed to a script is pretty sure they were inspired by a Doctor Who serial from 1970, Doctor Who and the Silurians).

The parallel Dino-earth was going to be very "Mad Max wasteland", with a Dinohattan drawing upon Blade Runner (hence why they got that movies set designer, and he really whipped ass in the final film regardless), but obviously it was a super troubled production. The initial script they ran with was pounded out in just over a week by Men In Black's Ed Solomon, who was rushed to finish and move on to another project. That he managed a filmable screenplay that incorporated what the directors and the studio had given him in that amount of time was pretty wild, but it basically broke in half as they kept changing it. The third act is basically just a jumble of things happening without setup; for instance, they realized too late that there was no *actual* reason Daisy was the only one who could merge the dimensions.

Still, some stuff works, like the brothers coming to respect each others points of view more. Mario takes more leaps of faith, and Luigi gets more practical about his tools and profession. (Honestly though, Hoskins and Leguizamo have pretty great chemistry, it almost undermines that arc that they *don't* have more friction). The actors for Spike and Iggy were basically left to make up their parts, and they did a pretty fun job of it. Dinohattan looks fantastic, and I think the opening in Humanhattan is genuinely pretty good.

It probably goes without saying that the effects work was fantastic, no one really complains about that part. The music is underwhelming, Alan Silvestri is a king but they seemed to just ask him for generic family movie fare. He'd done so amazing with Who Framed Roger Rabbit? the year before, with that moody noir sound; no idea why so much of Super Mario Bros. sounds like George of the Jungle. (Which, to be clear, is being big and corny on purpose).

There was probably never a *great* movie in there, but it could have been a good one with a more "harmonious" production, I think.

....uh, and that concludes my rambling.

 

[Jeff]

Yeah that could work love the rings film. But I bet it will be like with Halo TV series they hire a buffoon that don´t know anything about the game and don´t care at all about the game and then they make up things as they go.

Or it will be like Resident evil they hire a buffoon then fire him and hire some one that played the game and he then will bring in his wife to be the lead roll in 7 movies + monster hunter.

Or worse, the 1993 Super Mario Bros. Movie. They hire a buffoon and his wife who never played video games in their lives and add stupid stuff that weren't in the games they just use the names.

Or even worse that clichéd plot where the video game characters end up in a city via portal cliché and solve the side characters problem who never appeared in the games, ride in car to find the triforce pieces while listening to annoying "I need a hero" pop song for the 10th billion time, have the character use an outdated device they never seen before with pop culture phrase, and the main villain (Ganon) calls his minions through a portal in the sky cliché.

 

[Strategist's iconStrategist]

Or worse, the 1993 Super Mario Bros. Movie. They hire a buffoon and his wife who never played video games in their lives and add stupid stuff that weren't in the games they just use the names.

Or even worse that clichéd plot where the video game characters end up in a city via portal cliché and solve the side characters problem who never appeared in the games, ride in car to find the triforce pieces while listening to annoying "I need a hero" pop song for the 10th billion time, have the character use an outdated device they never seen before with pop culture phrase, and the main villain (Ganon) calls his minions through a portal in the sky cliché.

But the thing video game fans don't get is that a Hollywood movie isn't for the fans of the video game. Its for the movie going audiences at large. That's why making a Hollywood movie for a video game is mostly a mistake, with some very rare exceptions.

 

[Ikagura]

Sometimes I feel that we don't need video game adaptions since we already got an actual movie that was either inspired or the inspiration for an existing IP.

This was already my Zelda movie from my childhood:

Even the title had the eponymous main item that is important to the plot (like the Ocarina of Time, the Phantom Hourglass or the Echoes of Wisdom referencing the staff).

Even Taram has a green costume and finds a powerful sword and saving a princess dressed in blue (like ALTTP Zelda).