Sony Live Action Zelda Movie

[Autbot_Benz]

Nintendo Co., Ltd. (HQ: Kyoto Minami-ku; Representative Director and President: Shuntaro Furukawa, "Nintendo" hereafter) today announced that it will develop a live-action film of The Legend of Zelda.

The film will be produced by Shigeru Miyamoto, Representative Director and Fellow of Nintendo and Avi Arad, Chairman of Arad Productions Inc., who has produced many mega hit films.

The film will be produced by Nintendo and Arad Productions Inc., and directed by Wes Ball. The film will be co-financed by Nintendo and Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., with more than 50% financed by Nintendo. The theatrical distribution of the film will be done worldwide by Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.

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By producing visual contents of Nintendo IP by itself, Nintendo is creating new opportunities to have people from around the world to access the world of entertainment which Nintendo has built, through different means apart from its dedicated game consoles.

By getting deeply involved in the movie production with the aim to put smiles on everyone’s faces through entertainment, Nintendo will continue its efforts to produce unique entertainment and deliver it to as many people as possible.

https://www.nintendo.co.jp/corporate...23/231108.html

[IMJ]

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.

[Andrew NDB]

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/

[drgon78]

I hope we are still getting an animated movie.

[Powder]

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.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by drgon78

I hope we are still getting an animated movie.

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

Originally Posted by Powder

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.

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).

[Cowabung-Gal]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

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.



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

Disney will never learn

[KROW]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

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).

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.

[Sumac]

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?

[CyberCubed]

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.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by Sumac

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

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

[Sumac]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

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

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?

[The Deadman]

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.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by The Deadman

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.

[Mad Dog McMutt]

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.

[Coola Yagami]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

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

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by Coola Yagami

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

God please, anything but that haircut.

[DarkFell]

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

[Andrew NDB]

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.).

[Panda_Kahn_fan]

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!