Live-action? Oh no.
this post was submitted on 07 Nov 2023
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I don't know if I should be excited or scared 😳
I would be scared but after Super Mario surprised me so much with how amazing it was, I'm willing to at least give it the benefit of the doubt.
One piece has also been a nice surprise.
Cautiously hopeful I think is the best we can muster.
From the director of Maze Runner, the screenwriter of The Rise of Skywalker and the producer of Mobius. I don't see what could possibly go wrong with this movie.
“Hopefully the foods better in this joint”
It's Zorldo time?
I was hyped until I saw that Avi "Compulsively Ruins Spider-Man Movies" Arad is producing. 😬
EDIT: Oh and it's Sony. And the director choice.... eeeeeeeehhh. Here's hoping for a pleasant surprise, I guess?
He has some good movies under his belt. Into the Spider Verse was good. And he did the Iron Man movie.
That's fair. He also did the first couple Raimi Spider-Man flicks and the '97 X-Men cartoon. So he has worked on some solid projects. But looking through his IMDB credits is mostly not inspiring. He's produced most of the worst superhero movies ever made and few of the best. lol
Would’ve preferred a Studio Ghibli animated film.
Isn't he retired.. again... for like the 5th time?
Ghibli can still make films without Miyazaki directing. When’s the last time Walt Disney worked on a film?
It can but it won't until he is dead. He has a reputation that he is impossible to work with. He somehow cannot find a successor in decades. That alone is a huge red flag for a boss. The people working at Ghibli started their own company, Studio Ponac, because they knew they would never be good enough to succeed in his eyes.
I highly recommend the videos: Never Ending Man, and the TV documentary "10 Years with Hayao Miyazaki" if you want to learn more.
Arguably, whether this turns out decent or atrocious may depend, in part, on whether it’s a straight adaptation of the games (removes sensory elements that games and film don’t have in common, causing serious issues); or if it’s something that would fit better in a film, albeit taking place in Hyrule.
It may also depend on whether portions of the production team actively dislike the source material (cough cough Netflix Witcher cough cough)
The "Well, excuuuuuuse me, Princess!" Version of link?
Well excuse me princess but we already have an absolute classic on the cdi
I will laugh if they decide to cast Orlando Bloom as Link.
Nah man it's going to be Orlando Jones
HE’S SO COOL!!!
Zelda has a such potential to fail on a full feature that I don’t keep my expectation that high.
Silent Hill is still the only movie I consider good, because the original medium had a huge amount of content that match full feature requirement.
Can't wait to see who they pick to play Zelda, the hero of the game!
Chris Pratt
Oh no
This can go one of two very different ways.
I'm personally hoping for a super dark, gritty movie that I know will never ever happen.
I'm pretty sick of the 90s+ edgification of old IPs, but even I would be very interested to see the attempt.
Although a lot of modern Zelda fans are kids, so they need to appeal to them first, with all their latent purchasing power 🤩 just about to start getting jobs and buying their own consoles
Honestly, I think I just want to see Majora's Mask.
Ohhh, that would be good
I wonder if link will have any lines.
He spoke quite a lot in the cartoon series, and from some of the reactions his silent dialogue receives in the games, as well as how he is portrayed in ads and other Nintendo produced media, they seem to have kept his personality very similar if not the same as that cartoon version of Link.
"Excuuuuuuuse me, Princess!"
Well, the franchise was nice while it lasted!
Maybe it's not that bad, the last Doom game was decent despite that awful Doom movie having existed.
What? Why should a bad Movie harm the games? Resident Evil and Monster Hunter both have awful movies and the franchise does better than ever.
Oh, please make it a trilogy! Past, Present, and Future! This is going to be absolutely amazing.
It's about time. Nintendo's been toying with the idea of a Zelda movie for years, so I'm glad to see that something may finally come of it. I'm really interested to see who they're going to cast for this.
If they keep the story small enough, it could work. If they try to cram the last 3 decades or lore and plot and characters into 1 movie, it'll just fall apart
Finding actors for Link and Zelda, fine. But who on Earth could do Ganondorf justice? How do you translate the Gerudo to live-action film? Black actors with red wigs? Mixed-race actors with red wigs? Mixed-race actors with their natural hair, straightened and dyed red?
There are some lighter-skinned Gerudo in BotW/TotK. Would the actors all be pretty monotonous in look to give them a coherent race identity?
Christopher Judge
I hope they take inspiration from the Twilight Princess manga.
Oh, no!
I'm Surprised it took them so long.
Link talking is as much of a deal breaker as Mario talking. But the people who love minions will sell their house to watch this film and buy all the merch so they're still going to get millions.