Random: Nintendo's President Dodges Question On The Legend Of Zelda Movie

As long as the sentence "It will star Hollywood's favorite A-list celebrities." isn't said during the entire production, it'll be fine.

And they should do what the Silent Hill film did, where all the music for the film is taken directly from the video games, unaltered.

Let's hope Zelda Williams is in this in some form.

@Fyrus92 i didn’t even think about that, that would be awesome!

As a tribute to Jumanji and ms Doubtfire.

@Fyrus92 If ever Goddess Hylia is added to the script, she should play that character.

It's a fine line, but I think it would be a mistake to go into the development just thinking about a single film, it should be a trilogy!

I appreciate the Dodge Ball reference in the opening paragraph, love that movie. Really looking forward to this Zelda movie and am actually glad they're taking a live action approach, though I don't expect we'll get any more information on it this year and definitely not from one of these meetings

@Friendly
Why those two films?

@MarioBrickLayer or maybe a duology if its Ocarina of Time inspired, with the first movie ending on the cliffhanger of Link waking up as an adult in the Temple of Time. So many possibilities for a Zelda movie. I'm sure with Nintendo working closely on this we'll get something good

@Rambler my childhood casting her could be a tribute to other films too if you’d prefer.

Love that it started as a dodge and then transitioned to a beautiful parry.

@DrJoson 'love action' films are one of my favourite genres too, but I'm not sure discussing them here is entirely appropriate.

@gcunit Ha nice catch, just fixed the typo👌

I have a high feeling the final product is going to be medicore anyways.

This is just my own personal opinion, but I would like to see the first Zelda game be adapted. It served as the foundation for which almost all future Zelda games would be built upon, so it only makes sense for a Zelda movie to do the same.

Although, I would also be quite amenable to a Zelda anime series, considering an epic adventure like what you see in the games is too large to be contained to just a single movie. In fact, I am in the process of drafting such a pitch, with some original characters who would join Link on his adventure, as well as some existing characters (such as Impa) having their roles tweaked to play a larger role in the story than ever before.

And no, the anime would NOT be animated by Studio Ghibli, since they are not only more in the business of film than TV shows, but their last attempt at making something similar to Zelda, Tales From Earthsea, was not very well received. Furthermore, the only reason why people say Ghibli is because BOTW's and TOTK's atmospheric art style was reminiscent of Ghibli's, completely ignoring almost 40 years worth of other games in the franchise with radically different art styles that are simply not compatible with Ghibli's.

Rather, my idea has Ufotable as the animating studio, since they have done excellent work on Demon Slayer (especially with the action scenes, and my idea can be quite heavy on action), and they are also the studio in charge of the upcoming anime adaptation of Genshin Impact (a game often compared to Zelda due to a similar setting and gameplay).

And, if possible, I would love to get Akira Himekawa (the creative duo behind the brilliant series of Zelda manga adaptations) to provide the artwork, making it similar to their adaptation of Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, Twilight Princess, or even A Link to the Past, since the anime would be more serious than comedic and go for the cool factor rather than the cute factor that is associated with something like Four Swords, Phantom Hourglass, or The Minish Cap.

Either way, I wish this movie great success, and I hope it would eventually make Nintendo interested in a future anime adaptation of the games, such as the idea I have.

Ah... and here I was hoping this year's "Who let that guy in AGAIN?" question would be "No seriosly. How come Advance Wars Reboot Camp never had a Japanese release?"

They may not be answering anything right now, but I highly doubt this will be an adaptation of any particular game from the series. They'll do a distillation of the basic plot that's featured throughout most of the series, probably skewing closest to the original game and Ocarina of Time. It's just my two cents, but I'd bet money on it.

A bigger question for me is the one @Erigen touched on above... How will the music be handled? I thought there was a lot about the Super Mario Bros. film that was done very well, and that the silly mass-market approach to the music was one of the biggest flaws. When they recreated iconic music from the series with an orchestra, it worked phenomenally, but the licensed songs they used were incredibly corny and detracted from the feel of the universe they were establishing.

If the music had been more on point, and the Donkey Kong/Mario Kart elements had been omitted (along with "Peaches"...), it would have been a classier approach, and a near-perfect Mario movie in my opinion.

I haven't seen Maze Runner but my friend said it is really good... so hopefully Wes Ball can make this good as well!

@Troubbble Seeing the parallels between Avatar the last airbender and Breath of the Wild… I could totally see them making a thrillogy that feels similar to that series.

A single film for a series like this will be a waste imo.

Furukawa is so good at dodging, he could probably beat eldin ring without dying lol

I appreciate the authors dodgeball related reference.

In a way, I'm hoping that the "live action" is something akin to The Dark Crystal or something unique like that. I don't think having an actor dress up like Link is something I'm really looking forward to. Nevertheless, I'll be there opening day with the rest of my crew to (hopefully) experience some of that Nintendo magic.

Really worried about Miyamoto's involvement on anything at this stage (regarding films, that is) since the guy hates history/lore driven material, I wonder what kind of movie-with-a-silent-protagonist-this-may-be. Guess only time will tell

@Friendly
Sounds like a good reason!

@Fyrus92 Yes! a Zelda Williams cameo would be so cool!

@Friendly I miss Robin Williams. May he rest in peace.

Thanks for the reminder to get my Zelda tattoo covered.
This is going to be a disaster. Zelda works best as a game. Just let it be a game.

He can't make or say much about the Movie because he can't it's that simple. He would know about it but due the Clauses he right not to give a straight forward reply as that not be good for Nintendo. He's probably got Ninja telling him what to say and not say for IP/Copyright protection. Ninja works both sides at Nintendo.

Perhaps he's not allowed to say anything about it at present?

@badmotorfinger74 The dark crystal? Guess that explains why Link is the only youngster amongst old fogies in hyrule?

@AstroTheGamosian I agree. I'm surprised we'd never gotten a Zelda anime series after all these years considering how good all the manga are.

@Kn83 And it's not like Nintendo hasn't done anime before. Besides Pokémon, they've also done an anime adaptation of Kirby (with Kirby: Right Back at Ya!) and F-Zero (with F-Zero: GP Legend).

Heck, they even did an anime film adaptation of Animal Crossing back in 2006! While it never got a Western release, there does exist a fandub of it that it actually done quite well for the most part. I do recommend you check it out if you ever get the chance.

And of course, back in the 1980s, there was a Mario anime movie, which (obviously) preceded the 1993 live-action movie, thus making it the first-ever movie adaptation of Super Mario Bros.

Plus, if you remember, they also made anime shorts of Kid Icarus: Uprising that appeared on the 3DS. And they released an anime short that served as a teaser for Star Fox: Zero.

So it shouldn't be that much of a stretch to do a Zelda anime. Or Metroid, for that matter.

"... and Seth Rogan will be returning to our studio to provide the voice of Link."

i Strongly agree with these concerns regarding the movie i have a few concerns though what about if its like a trilogy instead of a stand alone move??? Kinda like what they are going to do with the mario movie because ya know squeeze the life out of a series hopefully they don't make it awful if they even do this idk

@Troubbble

I’d say the biggest mystery is how will they approach Link’s voice? Will he have a “British” accent or will he sound like he’s from Arkansas 😆 ?