Nintendo is adapting another major franchise into a film.
Live-action? Oh no.
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For being 15 years old and an April Fool’s joke, that was pretty good.
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
I mean EVERYTHING looked great in that trailer except Ganondorfs fucking hair and beard. That’s what gave it away for me :/
NIN and Rammstein were making a super group together
Surely that’s just Einsturzende Neubauten with flamethrowers.
I was expecting to be Rick Rolled. Had forgotten about this trailer.
I don’t know if I should be excited or scared 😳
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.
Detective Pikachu and Mario were both great.
One piece has also been a nice surprise.
Cautiously hopeful I think is the best we can muster.
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.
“Hopefully the foods better in this joint”
It’s Zorldo time?
I hope we get some good Koji Kondo music out of this.
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.
The “Well, excuuuuuuse me, Princess!” Version of link?
The Japanese dance-party commercial version of Link.
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.
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.
Can’t wait to see who they pick to play Zelda, the hero of the game!
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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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Would’ve preferred a Studio Ghibli animated film.
Isn’t he retired… again… for like the 5th time?
Ghibli can still make films without Miyazaki directing. When’s the last time Walt Disney worked on a film?
It can but it won’t until he is dead. He has a reputation that he is impossible to work with. He somehow cannot find a successor in decades. That alone is a huge red flag for a boss. The people working at Ghibli started their own company, Studio Ponac, because they knew they would never be good enough to succeed in his eyes.
I highly recommend the videos: Never Ending Man, and the TV documentary “10 Years with Hayao Miyazaki” if you want to learn more.
Miyazaki’s next movie, “the boy and the heron” comes out about two weeks from now. That man will never retire
Guess he just kept announcing it. You’re right
Edit: seventh time depending on who is asking lol https://itainews.com/archives/1783936.html
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.
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
Honestly, I think I just want to see Majora’s Mask.
Ohhh, that would be good
I will laugh if they decide to cast Orlando Bloom as Link.
Nah man it’s going to be Orlando Jones
HE’S SO COOL!!!
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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)
Well excuse me princess but we already have an absolute classic on the cdi
Oh no
I wonder if link will have any lines.
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!”
Presumably. BotW Link is downright sassy. It’s just limited to when you, the player, can choose a response, and it’s always kept short.
Really, Zelda games only avoid forcing specific dialog on the player. Link has had clear voice-acting since OoT. It’s not a Gordon Freeman situation where you literally never speak. You are given clear opportunities to infer where Link acted like any other character. But you are left to infer. No detailed characterization is placed upon you.
Frankly this is a better approach to a blank-slate avatar than Deus Ex, which has full voice acting, but keeps the player character so aggressively flat that it comes off as vicious sarcasm.
Yeah Link isn’t mute, he very definitely has conversations with people. They just don’t render his voice to the player. Plus especially in Breath of the Wild he’s said to be intentionally taciturn.
