Sony Live Action Zelda Movie

[ranger_scout]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

That's them in costume? No, it's not. They didn't even give them the ears or anything.

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

Link's hair will absolutely be either light brown or blondeish. And yeah they don't even have elf ears in those pics so those are not shots in costume.

The articles about the casting including Variety's say they are in costume.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by ranger_scout

The articles about the casting including Variety's say they are in costume.

Maybe they handed them a couple of tunics for the photo op but that's it. And "in costume" isn't the same thing as hair & makeup.

[CyberCubed]

Originally Posted by ranger_scout

The articles about the casting including Variety's say they are in costume.

Guy, they look nothing like Zelda or Link in those pics. You really think Zelda is going to walk around looking like a schoolgirl?

Link is not going to have black hair in the movie. And once again there are no elf ears, you really think they're not going to give them pointed ears when Miyamoto and Nintendo are overlooking the film?

[sdp]

Link is wearing green thank God

[CyberCubed]

My guess is they'll have Link and Zelda travel together, not the usual Zelda is captured/kidnapped/in hiding for 90% of the movie till the end. No way is Zelda going to be a damsel in distress or get little screentime.

For Ganondorf, they need to cast some tall arabic/muslim man. It would do, since the Gerudo are largely based on the sand people in the middle east. In the newer Zelda games, the Gerudo are even more stylized with arabic clothing, veils, hairstyle, and look like a mix of 10 different middle eastern countries combined into one. Ganondorf isn't black, he should be a muslim.

[Barkworm]

Originally Posted by ranger_scout

The articles about the casting including Variety's say they are in costume.

It says "seems-to-be".

[sdp]

I'll go ahead and do some rampant speculation before more stuff comes out and see what I end up being right in:
-It'll set up a trilogy, each movie will be named after each triforce, so the first title could be something like "The tree of courage" or whatever
-Ganondorf will appear but Ganon won't show up until the third movie
-Miyamoto will cameo in the movie
-We'll see story bits from every Zelda, so it'll be super contradicting to the games lore
-to expand on the above, it'll do a greatest hits of some of the best moments in all of the games (pulling the master sword, deku tree dying, the dark world, etc)
-The two games that will get most representation will clearly be OOT & BOTW
-There'll be a Majora's Mask somewhere as an easter egg and fans will speculate, make 2 hour video essays about it, but it won't actually have anything to do with the trilogy and was only there as an easter egg
-Mother Fcking Tingle will be in the movie as a small cameo
-Brain rot boomers will complain that the movie is woke, especially after some actor makes some pol statement
-There'll be some very controversial decision, like either making Zora's evil or some stupid lore thing that doesn't really matter that will make fans fume for months
-There will be a brand new original character made for the movie that will be a main character and take tons of screen time and people will automatically hate him (Think of Cole Young from the Mortal Kombat movie)
-"Excuuuuse me princess" is a line that will make it to the final cut of the film
-It'll be good since Miyamoto is supervising
-The Sheikah's backstory will be that they committed genocide on the gerudo
-the gerudo will be brown and people will complain (either because it's racist or because it's woke)
-chickens will attack Link at some point
-why are you still reading this
-Epona will meet atreyu's fate during the trilogy
-Link will have a love triangle and not with Zelda
-Zora's domain can be unfrozen and you'll be able to go to the temple of light

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

My guess is they'll have Link and Zelda travel together, not the usual Zelda is captured/kidnapped/in hiding for 90% of the movie till the end. No way is Zelda going to be a damsel in distress or get little screentime.

I don't think they'll find each other until the third arc of the movie, but she won't be a princess waiting to be rescued. She'll likely have her own quest she's going through and eventually meet up with Link.

[Andrew NDB]

We'll either get Ganondorf becoming Ganon at the end or that'll be a mid credits sequence. For sure. They will want to put most of their toys on the table right away with this one.

Not really worried about it being woke because Nintendo doesn't give a f*** about that stuff BUT I'm sure we'll still get a bit of Zelda herself with some girl boss moments. Like, doing the Sheik thing with Zelda might be too tempting to pass up when there's that precedent for it.

[ranger_scout]

The first OFFICIAL look has now been released. They have the ears, hair, and everything. I can only post the article's URL but not the photos.

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/20...link-and-zelda

[sdp]

Perfect, i hope Link wears his hat at some point in the movie even if brief. To think we almost had a Princess with a master sword in her pants.

[sdp]

I'm not watching a movie with 2 white leads, it's 2025 we're so over this.

[nidza_maj2000]

So I am really excited for this movie, Nintendo is really protective for Legend of Zelda franchise so we should not expect them to be transported to modern world like Sonic and his friends were in anime and Sonic movies, it works for Sonic franchise but for Legend of Zelda franchise it would not work because this is Medieval time setting franchise

[Andrew NDB]

It's not out until May 2027? Yeesh.

[Coola Yagami]

Originally Posted by nidza_maj2000

So I am really excited for this movie, Nintendo is really protective for Legend of Zelda franchise so we should not expect them to be transported to modern world like Sonic and his friends were in anime and Sonic movies, it works for Sonic franchise but for Legend of Zelda franchise it would not work because this is Medieval time setting franchise

Sonic works better for this since the actual games (not the comics or cartoons) either take place in our world or don't at the same time. And then the Adventure series took place in actual cities with humans and such. Legend of Zelda only takes place in either Hyrule or some other fictional land, but clearly never our world, at all.

[sdp]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

It's not out until May 2027? Yeesh.

I'd rather they take their time, it's basically only 2 years from now. 3 years between movies is fine for me. 2 can sometimes lead to rushing it and 4 is just too much to wait. But...we're basically getting a new Nintendo movie every year and if they do well we'll be getting more, but I don't want them to overdo it like say marvel and the MCU

2026 Mario Movie 2
2027 Zelda Movie
2028 Donkey Kong Movie rumored
2029 Mario Movie 3
2030 Zelda Movie 2?
2031 ????
2032 Mario movie 4?
2033 Zelda Movie 3?

[CyberCubed]

DK movie is definitely happening, it's why DK is absent in the second Mario movie. I wonder if they will base it around Bananza with child Pauline, because child Pauline would be a huge hit with young girls and families. I hope they keep the same voice actress for Pauline as the game.

People want a Metroid movie, but I don't know how well a live-action Metroid would even do. Metroid is basically Alien, but without Samus talking much.

Also I'm sure there's going to be a Kirby or Pikmin movie at some point, probably Animal Crossing as well.

[ranger_scout]

Here are the photos, just in case no one saw them.







https://variety.com/2025/film/news/l...on-1236583595/

[Andrew NDB]

They really could have a new Lord of the Rings on their hands if they play their cards right. But it's really, really going to come down to the writing.

Just for fun, let's look at what the two writers attached have done that's notable.

Writer #1 Derek Connolly

* Jurassic World Dominion: Ooof! BAD! Probably the worst JP movie ever.

* Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom: ALMOST as bad as Dominion but DEFINITELY badly written.

* Star Wars IX: Rise of Skywalker: Blecchh!! The less said the better.

* Detective Pikachu: Never saw it.

* Kong Skull Island: OK... not bad.

* The original Jurassic World: Not terrible but hardly a benchmark of writing.

* Safety Not Guaranteed: Ah, now this was really, really well written and crafted! Very clever. But this was a very small, very indie movie.

Writer #2 T.S. Nowlin

* The Adam Project: This was that straight-to-Netflix Ryan Reynolds movie. Never bothered watching it because it looked awful, but maybe it wasn't that bad.

* Pacific Rim 2: Ehhh... not terrible but not memorable either. I wouldn't say it was BADLY written, really.

* All 3 of the Maze Runner movies: I actually liked them well enough. They got a little bit sillier after the first but they weren't badly written, I felt.


So yeah. Its not exactly EXCITING writers we've got here for the Zelda movie. Nothing in either's credits really suggests that either one is quite up for nailing something with as much potential as Zelda but these also aren't, like, CW writers or anything.

[sdp]

Detective Pikachu was pretty good, based on the game but actually improved the story.
It did fairly well, I wonder why they never did the sequel they announced. The second Detective Pikachu game came out a while ago.

[CyberCubed]

There's nowhere to take the story since Ryan Reynolds wasn't trapped in a Pikachu body anymore by the end of the film. So they can't do that again.

Also I don't think the movie did too well in Japan at all. From what I remember on twitter, Japanese fans didn't really like the "realistic" or "monster" like designs of the Pokemon, and felt it was off-base. It's also probably why we never got a different live-action Pokemon film based on the games or anything else.

Kind of funny since the Pokemon anime movies also stopped once Ash's era ended too...