Live-action? Oh no.
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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.
Detective Pikachu and Mario were both great.
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 hope we get some good Koji Kondo music out of this.
I thought the Mario movie had a 10/10 soundtrack, so if they can just do the same thing but for Zelda music, I will be thrilled.
The "Well, excuuuuuuse me, Princess!" Version of link?
The Japanese dance-party commercial version of Link.
Would’ve preferred a Studio Ghibli animated film.
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.
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Can't wait to see who they pick to play Zelda, the hero of the game!
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.
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)
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
Oh no
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!"
Presumably. BotW Link is downright sassy. It's just limited to when you, the player, can choose a response, and it's always kept short.
Really, Zelda games only avoid forcing specific dialog on the player. Link has had clear voice-acting since OoT. It's not a Gordon Freeman situation where you literally never speak. You are given clear opportunities to infer where Link acted like any other character. But you are left to infer. No detailed characterization is placed upon you.
Frankly this is a better approach to a blank-slate avatar than Deus Ex, which has full voice acting, but keeps the player character so aggressively flat that it comes off as vicious sarcasm.
Yeah Link isn't mute, he very definitely has conversations with people. They just don't render his voice to the player. Plus especially in Breath of the Wild he's said to be intentionally taciturn.
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
Any amount of past lore is a mistake. Zelda games are practically an anthology series. The timeline was cobbled together from stories that did not give a dang about fitting into an objective chronology.
It's not called the History of Zelda. It's a legend. Every telling is going to be half familiar, and half buck-wild.
I hope that's how they do this movie. You have these three cosmically-entwined characters in a high-fantasy medieval situation on a land with a surprisingly consistent three-goddess pantheon. The writers can take or leave any of a dozen mythological races, like fish people, or bird people, or rock people, or... women... and use them really however the hell they want. Everything else should be fairly novel.
It’s not called the History of Zelda. It’s a legend. Every telling is going to be half familiar, and half buck-wild.
I love this. That's a great way of putting it, and mirrors how I feel about the games in the series. Also about any long running universe that had multiple storytellers weaving through it.
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.
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.
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Oh, please make it a trilogy! Past, Present, and Future! This is going to be absolutely amazing.
I hope they take inspiration from the Twilight Princess manga.
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?
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