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Nintendo is making a live-action Zelda movie

www.theverge.com Nintendo is making a live-action Zelda movie

Nintendo is adapting another major franchise into a film.

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I don't know if I should be excited or scared 😳

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- 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.
  
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  Detective Pikachu and Mario were both great.
  
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  One piece has also been a nice surprise.
  
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- Cautiously hopeful I think is the best we can muster.
  
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Live-action? Oh no.

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- I’ve seen the trailer already.
  
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  For being 15 years old and an April Fool's joke, that was pretty good.
  
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  I'm so glad I didn't see this when it was first made, I would have been pretty upset it turned out to be an April fools prank like that time they claimed NIN and Rammstein were making a super group together. Damn them all
  
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  I was expecting to be Rick Rolled. Had forgotten about this trailer.
  
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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.

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I hope we get some good Koji Kondo music out of this.

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- 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.
  
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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?

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- He has some good movies under his belt. Into the Spider Verse was good. And he did the Iron Man movie.
  
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  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
  
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Would’ve preferred a Studio Ghibli animated film.

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- Isn't he retired.. again... for like the 5th time?
  
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  Ghibli can still make films without Miyazaki directing. When’s the last time Walt Disney worked on a film?
  
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  Miyazaki's next movie, "the boy and the heron" comes out about two weeks from now. That man will never retire
  
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The "Well, excuuuuuuse me, Princess!" Version of link?

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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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- I'm glad for the latest Mario movie entirely because of Jack Black as Bowser.
  
  The Resident Evil films were pretty good, too. The Doom movie was at least as much fun as your standard B-movie shoot'em'up. Uncharted and the first Tomb Raider could have stood in for any Mummy and was head and shoulders above the last two Indiana films. The Street Fighter and Mortal Combat movies were middle-of-the-road genre films.
  
  I don't think Zelda has to fail on its face. But I think there's a lot of places where the screenwriters can go wrong. Translating the dungeons in a Zelda game to the big screen will be difficult in a way a Tomb Raider or Far Cry aren't. And working side-characters into a game that's very explicitly a solo adventure will be hard.
  
  I think they'd have had an easier time with Dragon Quest. I'm very confident they could make a good Metroid movie, since that's just reskinning Aliens 2. But there are definitely examples of game-to-movie films working, so long as they fit with a traditional Hollywood script. Zelda just doesn't do that well.
  
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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)

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Can't wait to see who they pick to play Zelda, the hero of the game!

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- Chris Pratt
  
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  He’s so cool!
  
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  He's so cool
  
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I will laugh if they decide to cast Orlando Bloom as Link.

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- Nah man it's going to be Orlando Jones
  
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- HE’S SO COOL!!!
  
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- Nah, it will Chris Pratt.
  
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Well excuse me princess but we already have an absolute classic on the cdi

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Oh no

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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.

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- 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
  
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  Honestly, I think I just want to see Majora's Mask.
  
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I wonder if link will have any lines.

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- 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!"
  
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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

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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.

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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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- 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.
  
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Oh, please make it a trilogy! Past, Present, and Future! This is going to be absolutely amazing.

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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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- Chris Pratt
  
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  Please no.
  
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  They are all Chris Pratt. 😅
  
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- Christopher Judge
  
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I hope they take inspiration from the Twilight Princess manga.

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I'm Surprised it took them so long.

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Oh, no!

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Of couse they do. For how forgettable the Mario movie was, it basically printed money. If they want to get me hyped they could announce something in the spirit of Twilight Princess instead of a throw-away comedy. But this would make less money and therefore wont be made.

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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.

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