A Zelda movie is finally happening, but Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto used to adamantly oppose the idea even "if Steven Spielberg himself" wanted to do it
A Zelda movie is finally happening, but Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto used to adamantly oppose the idea even "if Steven Spielberg himself" wanted to do it
I really don't like this idea. The series has always been "pseudo mature", by which I mean it portrays itself as being for older audiences, but doesn't have any real meat on them bones. It's all fluff and aesthetics around good gameplay.
They should just stick to the games imo
What? Like maybe the open world ones were light on story, but there's plenty of lore in the Zelda universe to do all sorts of interesting things.
The games just might not be cinematic enough in their telling but a proper screenplay can tell the story better.
I was assuming it would be animated, but I lost hope when they said it would be live action.
I'm not sure what the point of an animated version would be... it would be like watching someone else play the game.
Don't think any move would be a good idea, Link doesn't really have a defined character because in the game you're Link. In any movie they'll need to define his character and it'll probably not match most people's expectations because everyone imagines Link's character to be different.
Well excuse me, Mr. poster, but he does have defined personality. It was (poorly) defined every Friday on the Super Mario Super Show.
The quote could have been, "Spielberg would want to do it, and no."
I love Zelda but a movie would be too weird. I like the "voiceless" Link. It puts the players thoughts as the response instead of a script.
what if it's like botw/totk where everyone is fully voice acted, except for link who just waves his hands around every time has to explains something and everyone just repeats what he says.
I mean, that's been the standard since at least ocarina of time. I remember rolling my eyes at the other characters reading your responses back to you.
Would be cool if they made the movie where Link doesn't talk at all. I can't think of any movies with a dumb protagonist, it wouid be a first. They'd also need to find an actor who is really good with acting with their face and body language.
Probably won't happen, though. We're going to get Link who talks and a reference to "Well excuuuuuuuuuuuuUUUUUUUUUUUUUssse me, princess!"
This Summer Chris Pratt Is....
God Don't. Just. Don't
He's so cool
I just hope that when "Kakariko" is inevitably said in the movie, it gets pronounced right
Is this bait? Like "gif" vs "jif", or is there really a non obvioua way to pronounce it?
In my head I always think ka-ka-REE-ko, but your comment makes me think it's ka-KA-ri-ko?
It could go either way. Personally I think the "REE" is the correct pronunciation based on my (non expert) Japanese lessons many years ago.
Both of your pronunciations read the same in my head.
I've always read it as Ka-care-ick-co but I always hear people say Kack-a-rico
A Zelda movie goes against the core concept of Zelda games
How so?
Miyamoto created Zelda to fulfill a childhood fantasy of being a hero wandering the woods, going on adventures, collecting treasures, and rescuing a princess. It was intended to allow every player to be able to experience and fulfill that same fantasy. As a lifelong Zelda player, I’ve always felt that I become link and embody that hero that we dream of while playing in our backyards. I think that’s why link never had dialogue. He’s not a character, he’s us. I think it’s also why the franchise has always been titled Zelda, not link (for the most part). To give him a voice, and a character that we the player isn’t in control of, destroys that gift of fantasy embodiment that Miyamoto gave to us. Link instead becomes a super hero lost to a world saturated by marvel characters
Considering how Spielberg butchered Ready Player One, I hope they find someone more respectful.
The source material wasn't good in the first place.
Is Zelda going to say anything? Unless I’m mistaken, if he does you’ll get nerd fans just as upset as Dredd or Master Chief taking off their helmets.
He'll speak.
WELL EXCUUUUUUUSE ME! PRINCESS!
They won't as long as he doesn't take off his helmet.
As a huge Halo fan, I wasn’t even upset that Master Chief took his helmet off. No one ever said he’s supposed to be treated like Mohammed or something. I think people were more upset about the fact he spent the majority of the show not wearing any armor at all, because the writers thought a Halo soap opera was a good idea
The first good videogame movie was Wreck It Ralph.
It's nice that the recent Sonic and Mario movies didn't suck, although there's always a good chance they'll return to form.
I think Wreck It Ralph was a success because it explicitly wasn't based on a real video game, more just the idea of video games, with cute little references to real games. Starting off with original IP means you don't have an incredibly dedicated fanbase that can pick apart all the inaccuracies in your lore and character portrayals, which lowers the stakes a ton.
Making a Zelda game is risky because there are a ton of people out there with preconceived notions of how Zelda and Link are supposed to be portrayed, how the world is supposed to be portrayed, and the history of that world. If they get any of that wrong, those people are gonna be big mad. The stakes are much higher there.
Plus it's always been a game with a much more serious tone. Not sure they can really rely on a Jack Black/Jim Carrey vibe to save what might otherwise be a very bland movie.
Their best bet might be a Link's Awakening type thing, both in tone and style. If it's live action then gods help them because I can't see anything working there.
There is at least plenty of Zelda styles to go for.
Making a Zelda game is risky because there are a ton of people out there with preconceived notions of how Zelda and Link are supposed to be portrayed,
Throwback to the shit fits G*mers threw when The Wind Waker was announced
It might have worked around the era of Twilight Princess; there was enough continuity in the series that it had consistent lore, the games were trending toward cinematic, lots of cut scenes and character arcs and such. Not sure a movie is going to play well in the "We physically cannot care about this story" era represented by BotW and TotK.
Honestly, I don't think there was ever a time when Zelda had lore that spanned outside the borders of the individual games. Or at least, where lore like that was considered important or taken seriously. The whole timelines thing always seemed to me like a kind of after-thought.
The Legend of Zelda has a lot more in common with Final Fantasy. There'll be a lot of similar things in between each game, but each game is self-contained.
There was a span between Ocarina of Time and Twilight Princess where each game treated previous ones as established history. The handheld games have always done whatever; Link's Awakening is a direct sequel to Link to the Past which is all a dream, it's directly in the text of that game. The Oracle games take place outside Hyrule, Minish Cap takes place in Hyrule but the distant past, so we can largely ignore them as side stories.
Ocarina of Time, especially given how tremendously popular it was, became an anchor point for the series. Majora's Mask is a direct 20 minutes later sequel which is almost like Link's Awakening. I subscribe to the fan theory that it's Link's dying fever nightmare. Wind Waker and Twilight Princess both treated Ocarina of Time as historical events that literally happened, even if they mutually ignored each other. I think that's why they did the multiple timelines thing, just to reconcile WW and TP.
You can just feel them wanting to shrug off the timelines thing from there; Phantom Hourglass and Spirit Tracks are direct sequels to Wind Waker, Link Between Worlds is a direct sequel to Link to the Past of all games, Skyward Sword is a far past prequel, and then Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom are a reboot of the series.
But from about '98 to '05 or so, it felt like a series and not a franchise.
Wanna hear my juiciest Zelda conspiracy theory? There are several pages of lore at the beginning of the manual for A Link to the Past, I have the North American version of this, and I don't know how much of it was written by Nintendo themselves and translated or how much of it was written by Nintendo of America (I know Ganon's last name "Dragmire" was made up by NoA) but the whole thing retroactively reads like a design document for the rest of the series. Seriously go read it and try not to think "Holy shit this was written in 1990."
I agree, I think the whole "official timeline" thing was 100% a fan created mythos which Nintendo saw was gaining traction and played into to make more money. It's pretty clear that most of the games had very little connection to one another beyond the basic concept of the core theme (the hero saving the world from a great evil) repeating itself.
The Legend of Zelda: The Monkey's Paw
Sigh. Just don’t. Please. It’s gonna be slop like the Mario movie, or Minecraft or doom or resident evil or alone in the dark… etc
Nothing but greed and profit fuelling this project.
The mario movie seemed really well done to me but I dont really watch many cartoons anymore. Cant really argue with the profit motive though it probably has that
Wasn't the Mario movie pretty well-received among fans, though? The Resident Evil films were also very successful, despite not being popular with the game's original audience.
You thought the Mario movie was slop?? The target audience (kids) really liked it and it was faithful to the games…
What? The movie NEVER got close to the source material! I mean since when is Toad a street musician, and just one guy? Since when does Big Bertha have massive tits? Why did they treat Spike as one of the koopa kids? Where were the other 6 koopa kids? You just took Iggy, and paired him with Spike (for some reason) and said fuck off to the other 6? And why is King Koopa clearly a parody of donald trump? And why did he destroy the world trade center towers???
I would certainly hope if you've read this far that you get what I'm doing here....
My kid and I watched it when it first released.
He barely remembers it, except Rainbow Road and "Mario characters". And he loves Nintendo stuff.
It wasn't "slop", but it was not very memorable. The worst thing a film can be is forgettable.
The mario movie was great. The animation was really good and it was funny
The Sonic movies were pretty decent. Not super amazing, but the bar is so low for video game movies you might as well consider them masterpieces.
However, I do not trust Nintendo to make a good Zelda movie.
It could be slop. It also could be fantastic. Some video game adaptions have turned out well.
- Arcane
- Detective Pikachu
- The Last of Us
- Fallout
- Cyberpunk Edgerunners
- Tetris
Based on the trailers I legitimately think the Minecraft movie was written by AI
Greed and profit fuel everything in this capitalist hellscape in which we toil.
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Have him not speak through the whole film and at the very end dub in this.
if they do OOT, he would have been perfect for Navi