Sony Live Action Zelda Movie
 

Given Sony's track record, staying the course even through the woke $#!( period, given the enduring nature of the I.P., given that it's never been on the big screen before, and given it's story and visual appeal; my knee jerk reaction is that this could make a f'n fortune in theaters.

I was going to say, "huh, in ADDITION to the Illumination CGI movie?" but I just noticed that movie was just a FAKE rumor.

https://movieweb.com/illumination-ze...rumor-clarify/

I hope we are still getting an animated movie.

This is going to be horrific. Not happy at all. TLOZ is very sacred to me, & I have zero faith in these people to do it justice.

Apparently it was a fake story to begin with. So there is no "still."

Shigeru Miyamoto there to safeguard things and presumably serve in the same capacity as Nintendo at large did with the Super Mario Bros. movie, as in being there to say "NO!" to any nonsense, should give some confidence. Avi Arad as a producer shouldn't give confidence OR a lack of confidence (he's produced both amazing and epic movies as well as HORRIFIC movies over the past 20 or so years).

Well, one thing’s for sure, we won’t get a black-washed Link or Queen Zelda as long as Nintendo keeps laying down the law.

https://betterlivingthroughbeowulf.c...t-Over-It.jpeg

Meanwhile, it is rumored that Michael B. Jordan is going to play Hercules in the Disney live-action remake…

Disney will never learn :roll:

Yeah, with Shiggy involved there should be some thread of hope to hang onto, though Arad's more hit-and-miss.

This is something I didn't think I'd see at all, instead feeling I'd have to relegate myself to the old cartoon and retro commercial. I wonder where in the timeline it'll take place.

I am not sure, why they even decided to go with a live action as opposed to an animated movie.

I mean, they already have style and models - just rerender Breath of the Wild stuff at higher resolution and there is your style for an animated movie. I am simplifying things, of course, but I feel like making a live-action TLOZ will be much more bother than just working with stuff they already have.

And from what I've seen script writer and Sony involvement do not inspire confidence. Nintendo overseeing production is not a guarantee of the quality - they were on board with OG Mario Bros. movie, so who knows what they are smoking now. Maybe they think TLOZ is too big too fall?

Ganondorf is already "black" and "middle eastern" so they don't have to make a black Link or Zelda.

But yeah this should of been animated. An anime-inspired Zelda movie would have been the ideal way to do it as a whole.

I think it's much more ballsy. And the potential to be something much more special than just some animated thing.

But he is a villain, which means SJW scum gonna cry "how dare you to make the only "black" character in the game evil!! That's racisms!!!". Never mind that Ganondorf is not Black and more like dark middle eastern, if we go by comparison to a real world.

Not that it helps since SJWtards see everyone darker than White and regular Asians as Black, unless they were told not to.

I wonder how they gonna handle Gerudos - a race of Middle Eastern Amazonian women (and women only)...

But generally, I am surprised by this decision making: one would thought that after success of Mario movie, Nintendo will opt to do things the safest way and just farm TLOZ to Illumination, without risking to anger fans by making it a "live action" (for what its worth this days, when everything is CGI anyway).

But they decided to risk it. I wonder why?

If there's another animated Nintendo movie, it's the inevitable Mario sequel or a Donkey Kong movie. Pretty sure theyve wanted to do something live action worthy with Zelda for a while.

Zelda is definitely the Nintendo property that lends itself best to live action, particularly in a post-LotR, post-GoT landscape.

Followed by Metroid. :) Live action Metroid. Hell yeah.

I think it would be awesome seeing them use the plot of Ocarina of Time because that game had the best story line in my opinion.

I mean... as long as Samus isn't a woke feminist with the 'mental illness' side-shave haircut.

God please, anything but that haircut.

If a Legend of Zelda movie ever gets made, it better do right by the fans.

No matter what game it ends up adapting or amalgamizing, I'd want these boxes checked:

* Link has to recover pieces of the Tri-Force.

* Link has to fight and defeat Ganon.

* Link has to go into at least a couple dungeons along the way and improve his arsenal.

* Set it in a non-post-apocalyptic Hyrule. Let's see the kingdom and villages still thriving, for the most part.

* Link and Zelda actually kissing.

* Link has to encounter at least one of those octo things that shoot rocks at you from the water.

That's it. That's all I need to see. Also, it'd be neat to see at least some of the other kingdoms out there (the Zoras, etc.).

This... is a wait and see thing. Miyamoto's involved, and for that I will give it a chance. One thing I'm glad about that everyone else probably hates; it seems likely with this news that there will be no Nintendo 'cinematic universe', thank the Triforce!

They're going for a "Miyazaki-like" live-action story:

https://www.darkhorizons.com/live-ac...iyazaki-esque/

It gives some confidence...

A trilogy?

https://www.darkhorizons.com/nintend...movie-trilogy/

Well I’ve never really been into Zelda. Just played the original on the NES mini...not even growing up. Honestly did not think it was very fun. I have the SNES mini too but haven’t played Link to Past. I think I’d like the 3D ones.

I will say it’s highly suspicious they scheduled it alongside Sonic 4 :lol: but we know Paramount isn’t afraid of competition with big family franchises so that’s not changing unless it was for some other reason.

The original Legend Of Zelda for the NES in 1986 was one of a few classic games the whole family liked to play and watch together. Just something about that game attracted all of us.

Back in the day when I was a young kid, I was an unbeatable NES, Genesis, SNES gamer. I kicked serious ass against my family and friends. I didn't know it then, but maybe it was because of my autistic symptoms. I had to be because how else did I become so good at games that no one I knew beat me but watched me play to get some strategies?

They're going with a transsexual actor for Princess Zelda. Maybe.

https://www.darkhorizons.com/zelda-l...chafer-linney/

oh well. Nice while it lasted. You know this is going to cause outrage, controversy, the movie to bomb and the movie people to call the loyal Zelda fanbase a bunch of bigots.

That's great forward thinking casting. I mean how else would you interpret Sheik otherwise in the second movie and have it be believable to the audience that its a man?

"The Legend of Gender"

I don't think a plot twist that occurred in one out of the twenty Zelda games out there is a good reason to be looking at transsexuals for Princess Zelda.

Like I said never been into this franchise but she does resemble Zelda. It’s not a bad choice. Saw a clip of her talking about it. If it wasn’t stated I doubt I would have known she was trans. Some people transition better than others...wasn’t sure how to word that without coming off offensive. Haha, it’s true though.

Out of all the movie studios why would Miyamoto want Sony to do Zelda. Has he seen Sony’s track record as of late?

I'm sure Nintendo retains full veto power over every aspect of it. Like with the SMB movie. So we'll see how "progressive" they're willing to let Sony go.

The biggest problem is the movie is live action and not animated or CG. No idea why they went with this route, live-action Zelda is just going to be compared with Game of Thrones or other fantasy movies, and Zelda just doesn't have a deep enough story for a movie to do that.

All they had to do was make a Zelda in anime-style or CG and it would have been fine.

Just know that when Link finally rescues Zelda and goes to kiss her, that later on off-camera he either throws a fit when he finally flips that pink dress up, or he gums it down and winds up tickling some D.

But one way or the other, nobody in Hyrule OR the audience will know.

Anyone who says "Excuuuuusee me princess" isn't remotely straight to begin with:P

I'm thrilled they're going live action and not something animated. It just means it will be held to a higher standard.

Imagi who made the TMNT movie actually pitched a Zelda CG movie to Nintendo
I actually hope they have that line in the movie. Crossing my fingers someone sneaks it in there after they saw how successful the Super Mario Bros show references were online.

You're kidding yourself if you don't think the movie will be heavily influenced either by Ocarina of Time and/or Breath of the Wild.

If I were to guess, it'll be an original story set up to be a trilogy. A high chance of the Ocarina being in the movies, child to adult link happening in the movie in some way (flashbacks or something). Link will be wearing blue and no hat.
Zelda will be a hero and not a damsel in distress.

Plus apparently, Zelda will be packin'. She might be even bigger than Link.

I think you're right that it'll be an original story set up to be a trilogy, and maybe there's an Ocarina. Epona, of course. Navi, it's also possible. But that's probably about it. It'll be a big Link vs. Ganon thing with a general "landscape" somewhere around Zelda 1 and Link to the Past. Then part 2, it'll be something new. Maybe they go "weird" with part 2 like a Link's Awakening type adventure, then part 3 will be the big finale with Ganon... so maybe some hodgepodge take on the Banishing War or something more definitive we've never seen in the games before.

The Zelda games don't really lend themselves to continuity. And there's rarely ever been a straight sequel. If Nintendo is super interested in this Zelda movie being "canon" (and they might), then it'll just be some other Link we've never seen before.