Illumination's "The Legend of Zelda" movie

[Andrew NDB]

A deal is close. Thanks to the success of Mario Bros. they'd be fools not to.


https://mynintendonews.com/2023/06/08/illumination-nintendo-close-to-finalizing-deal-to-make-a-zelda-movie/?fbclid=IwAR0hxQuXphDrOP6kbT4e56lmsBG3qT82oYh4kFEV CbNvJly2cm5agAngTo0

[oldmanwinters]

Wonder which era they will start with, since the original game is supposedly near the end of N’s official timeline.

[Andrew NDB]

Wonder which era they will start with, since the original game is supposedly near the end of N’s official timeline.

Personally I think a more or less adaptation of "A Link to the Past" is the best, least convoluted, most easily digestible route to go. Without getting into time travel or turning into a wolf or post-apocalypse and all that.

[oldmanwinters]

Bunny Link > Wolf Link ?

[Barkworm]

Bunny Link > Wolf Link ?

That shouldn't even be a question.

[Mayhem]

I’d assume LttP or Ocarina

[drgon78]

I would be happy if they use the "Excuse Me Princess" line at least once in the Zelda movie?

[CyberCubed]

They're obviously going to start with Breath of the Wild. Modern Zelda is the most recognizable incarnation of it now and sales of BOTW and Tears of the Kingdom are among the highest the series ever been.

For a long time Ocarina of Time was considered the best Zelda to start with, but now OOT is like 25 years old and the younger generation probably doesn't care about it much. If this was 10-15 years ago I'd say an Ocarina of Time adaption was the safest bet, but not anymore.

It'll obviously be modern Zelda.

[Andrew NDB]

There's not enough "life" in BotW. Everything is post-apocalyptic. No Kingdom of Hyrule or anything.

LttP, but maybe give Link Navi from Ocarina.

[CyberCubed]

If they condense the game plot into one movie, Link has to visit the Rito, Zora, Goron and Gerudo tribes and that's enough characters to interact with. Breath of the Wild was recruiting the descendants of the champions, and besides that they can show Zelda traveling on her own or whatever.

There is absolutely no way they're going to do classic Link where he looks like a green elf wearing a skirt with fairies. I mean he literally used to look like Peter Pan in the NES/SNES days. That is way too outdated now and looks like 80's and 90's stuff. Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom are the two best selling Zelda games in years.

[TigerClaw]

If Illumination does the Zelda movie, I can see them doing it in a similar style some of the games that does the toon style.

https://oyster.ignimgs.com/mediawiki/apis.ign.com/the-legend-of-zelda-wind-waker/c/c1/Wind-waker-hd-zelda-link.jpg

[Andrew NDB]

If they condense the game plot into one movie, Link has to visit the Rito, Zora, Goron and Gerudo tribes and that's enough characters to interact with. Breath of the Wild was recruiting the descendants of the champions, and besides that they can show Zelda traveling on her own or whatever.

There is absolutely no way they're going to do classic Link where he looks like a green elf wearing a skirt with fairies. I mean he literally used to look like Peter Pan in the NES/SNES days. That is way too outdated now and looks like 80's and 90's stuff. Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom are the two best selling Zelda games in years.

Probably it will be a Link that looks "a little younger" than Adult Link in Ocarina. And remember, this isn't going to be Illumination just doing whatever they want or basing it on whatever they think sold the most games... Nintendo is directly involved in every aspect of this and they won't let anything be put out there that isn't the Zelda movie they want put out there.

[ranger_scout]

Tom Holland has my vote to voice Link.

[sdp]

A Zelda movie won't be based on any one game, it'll take elements from various games. Ocarina of Time was finally dethroned by Breath of the wild in terms of influence, A link to the past was never even in the same breath of either but It won't be a botw movie. But likely we'll have Link in blue instead ofgreen. I kinda wish that Imagi Legend of Zelda CG movie had happened. I can picture this Illumination (http://miscrave.com/articles/zelda-movie-imagi/) movie looking similar.

[Andrew NDB]

A Zelda movie won't be based on any one game, it'll take elements from various games.

Pretty much this is my guess. A new Link from an unexplored era going on a journey across the world to retrieve pieces of the Tri-Force, fighting Ganon at the end and defeating him... sort of. Maybe with a prologue showing how Ganondorf became Ganon.

I wonder what they'll do with Zelda, though? Just make her a damsel in distress? I'm guessing no. Probably it'll be a shared adventure, Zelda along for the ride with Link.