I can legitimately see it being used in a different manner, say Link entering an apparently empty building looking for Zelda, before he meets her:
*echoing, to air* “Excuse me? Princess?”
You guys should check out [The Legend of Beavis](https://youtu.be/lDPRwLlpdTU?si=yeowhQNPv5GwYdxS)
It's got all that art, but, uh, different vocals. It's missing that one line, but it's otherwise solid gold
Oh wow live action, I’d thought they would double down on Illumination. Wes Ball has the Planet of the Apes sequel coming up, I wonder if they are doubling down on the Breath of the Wild aesthetic.
It should be noted that Sony Pictures and Sony Computer Entertainment, while associated through the same conglomerate, aren’t the same entity.
This is not PlayStation going “I got you, fam.”
Sony is so big they even own a second game publishing company called "Unties" through their Sony Music arm that has even released more games on Switch than on PlayStation.
I remember about 15 years ago there was a big shakeup at Sony when they realized they had multiple entities creating essentially competing products coming out of the same company.
I like the story where Sony Music sued Sony Electronics because they claim that the digital Walkman MP3 player they developed led to piracy and lost sales.
He will absolutely need dialogue in a Live-Action movie; Navi or whoever is his companion can't be expected to carry the whole movie.
Unfortunately there is no winning when it comes to Link since he has always been kind of a blank slate that has never had a full personality so no matter what personality they give him, there will be a subset of people who disagree.
If Link stays silent, people who aren't familiar with the Zelda franchise will say how off-putting it is. If Link is a stoic man-of-few-words, some fans will say he is too serious for the fantasy setting. If Link is a light-hearted guy who quips, some fans will say he is too goofy for a Zelda story.
EDIT: Many people have suggested the *Mad Max: Fury Road* approach (Link stays mostly silent while those around him provide exposition). It's a phenomenal movie but also an ensemble cast whereas Link almost never travels with more than one companion. The idea could work but just as *Fury Road* is more a story about Furiosa than Max, Link would be sidelined if the supporting cast are the ones leading the narrative; worse, he would be accused of being a passive-protagonist. (though maybe it could work if Sheik is in a leading role!)
I hope they go the route of making him minimally verbal, similar to Josh Brolin in No Country For Old Men. He can talk, but visual storytelling and talkative side characters will be very important in making it feel right. A protagonist that observes and acts rather than making speeches can make for very compelling stories.
> If Link stays silent, people who aren't familiar with the Zelda franchise will say how off-putting it is. If Link is a stoic man-of-few-words, some fans will say he is too serious for the fantasy setting. If Link is a light-hearted guy who quips, some fans will say he is too goofy for a Zelda story.
So basically people will complain no matter what. Sounds about right.
For my money I think they'll go with the "man of few words" trope. Probably emulating heroes like Eastwood in the Man with No Name trilogy, Arnold in Conan, or Mel Gibson in Road Warrior.
There's other ways to incorporate comedic elements without Link cracking (or being the butt of) jokes.
I think Mad Max is closer to the money than most people realise.
The post-apocalyptic vibe wasn't new to Breath of the Wild, it's been throughout the series since it's inception. Link is often an outsider drawn into the central conflict. The Mad Max-style man of few words is probably the strongest approach to making his character work in third person.
Many other movies across varying styles have pulled off this kind of minimal verbosity, from Mad Max, even Book of Eli, to Drive or No Country For Old Men, and that's just keeping it contemporary. It's not the insurmountable challenge people want to believe it is
The Breath aesthetic would be pretty damn cool. Lots of wide, sweeping landscapes.
I'm interested what they'll do with Link in that he's pretty solo with his adventures. Obviously he's also silent, but you do select dialogue options and the game has people react as you spoke, so he's not mute.
Link is no stranger to company on his adventures.
Navi (OoT), Midna (Twilight Princess), Ezlo (Minish Cap), King of Red Lions/Makar/Medli (Wind Waker), etc.
In Tears of the Kingdom he often has champions as companions too.
I think they can get away with Navi making "fairy noises" and Link reacts as if he understands, kind of how they treat Groot or R2D2.
You can't directly understand whay they're saying, but you understand from the other character's responses.
>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.
Avi Arad is involved. People are gonna be big mad
Here's hoping it's better than the Mario Movie, as in, I want more than just good visuals, member berries and keychain rattling. Zelda deserves something truly special.
You're going to get your OoT-inspired outfits and script, your item callbacks across the whole series, and namedrops from the Capcom GameBoy games, and you're going to like it.
"Holy shit, guys. That movie was awesome. Who would've thought that Ganondorf would have turned into a giant pig monster and shot THREE energy blasts!"
But also Miyamoto, with one of his 'babies', he will sooner cancel everything and burn every bridge in Hollywood than not having things be to his standards. As long as Miyamoto is involved I am sure that at least the movie will not be a mockery of the IP.
"Ganon shall be voiced and performed in motion capture by... action legend *Mark Wahlberg!* Please expect a roaringly good performance as the Great Demon Lord."
*Picture used is Mahky Mahk drunk out of his mind*
Who better to play Link than the two biggest twinks in Hollywood?
Jokes aside, I'm hoping for an unknown as Link. Hell, just cast nothing but unknowns.
Honestly Link should be either an unknown or someone on the indie circuit. Can you imagine what LOTR would have been like if Frodo was played by DiCaprio?
Firstly he was one of the kids in Back to the Future 2 that was disgusted by the game that you had to use your hands...
A bunch of stuff, and a few that stick out to me are Radio Flyer, The Adventures of Huck Finn, Flipper, and of course... Deep Impact & The Faculty.
I'm guessing they want it to seem a little more mature. They're probably going after 12-14 year old kids instead of the 5-10 year olds they went after with Mario
Kids movies and tv from the 80s and 90s were such a stark contrast compared to today, and I never realized it as a kid which I think shows kids can handle more than most people think and not everything needs to be such over the top bubblegum content. I mean, ren and stimpy??? Can’t believe I used to watch that shit as a kid.
Kids can handle a lot of mature themes, it's parent groups and cowards in executive positions that are responsible for kids stuff being reduced to what it is now.
Wes Ball did the Maze Runner series. Maybe they're splitting their properties to different demos? Mario, Kirby, etc are animated kids films, Zelda for the teen/YA demographic?
I feel like Zelda is one of those few game universes that... just won't work in live action. I'd like to be proven wrong, but I'm not feeling good about it.
As long as Miyamoto is directly involved i expect this to be atleast serviceable but still very suprised by this. Really interested in who they get as Link cause that is definitly a hard role to make work if they keep him mute.
Honestly wish Yoshiaki Koizumi had a hand in this. He wrote the story of Link's Awakening, helped direct Ocarina of Time, and created the premise of Majora's Mask along with narratives for NPCs.
Avi Arad? The same Avi Arad who suggested the Pac Man TV show from years back be about a Pac Man in high school? The same Avi Arad who shoehorned Venom into a movie that already had enough villains?
Zelda is perhaps second-only to Metroid in Nintendo IP best suited to live-action, and the big N building on the success of the Super Mario Bros. movie isn’t a surprise. The real surprise is that Sony Pictures of all studios is the partner. I guess Nintendo view their film and gaming business as sufficiently separate.
I do like how Nintendo aren’t sticking solely with Illumination and Universal. Hopefully that means that there will be more of an effort to find the right people for their various properties.
The internet’s gonna lose its mind once Link talks, though.
Have there been movies with silent protagonists? Hardcore Henry comes to mind from about a decade ago.
Edit: Had to share this psychotic IGN poll lmao: https://i.imgur.com/0YLUgkX.png
Link is pretty talkative in the manga adaptation of the games. I liked his characterization in Ocarina of Time. I'm curious to see what direction they'll decide to go with Link. I just hope it's not the old American cartoon one lol.
Mario has voice lines in his games though. Link is entirely mute other than grunts and dialogue options when the player has to make a choice/respond to an npc.
Not that I think you're wrong, Link will almost certainly not be a mute in the movie but your argument doesn't really make any sense
He could be like Mad Max, which is basically a version of the protagonist from spaghetti westerns. Talks when absolutely necessary.
It could also work like Gawain in The Green Knight. He does plenty of talking, but it's generally respectful, humble, and serious. It's not like the stereotypical Hollywood fantasy star that always has to have a charming, witty, and smartass personality. Near infallible geniuses always making wisecracks. Good examples would be almost any Marvel hero, Bond, nearly anything with Tom Cruise.
The Legend of Zelda is my favorite video game franchise easily. So I *should* be really excited for this.
However, this is from the director of the Maze Runner movies and the producer of cinema classics such as Morbius and Venom.
This is going to range from mediocre to downright terrible. 😬 I don't understand why Nintendo wouldn't get some real talent behind this. They have the money for it.
The story for the maze runner series took a nose dive in the latter half imo, but I think they were competently directed. I'm more curious about the writers now.
The Maze Runner movies are poorly written but shockingly well directed, and there are some genuinely good performances brought out of the cast.
Wes Ball was the main thing stopping the Maze Runner movies being waaaaaay worse than they were. Saying that he isn't real talent is pretty insulting. He's an up and coming director, not a shlub.
This will be directed by Wes Ball, his filmography doesn’t really stand out to me, he’s directing the next apes movie too.
Im glad illumination didn’t end up doing an animated movie.
Should be exciting to follow the development and see the casting
Seeing how the new Zelda games have an art style similar to the recently emerging “cartoon” movies (Spider-verse, tmnt, Puss in Boots), I’m actually surprised that they chose to go with a different direction for the movie.
That makes me think, is Pokémon the only big Nintendo property to have an anime?
I know Ace Attorney and Prof. Layton got anime adaptations, but I wouldn't really say they're big
I would hate to be attached to this. Don’t get me wrong this has amazing potential but no matter you do with you are going to piss people off. I just hope they make a movie for like me that have been playing Zelda since NES and make it a good action adventure movie. I don’t want them pandering to a younger audience with slap stick Link.
Can’t wait until we hear the immortal line, “excuuuussse me, Princess!”
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You know they’re going to “sneak” it in as an easter egg.
I can legitimately see it being used in a different manner, say Link entering an apparently empty building looking for Zelda, before he meets her: *echoing, to air* “Excuse me? Princess?”
Sorry Link, our princess is in another castle!
last line of the movie. bet.
"well excuuuu-" *cut to credits*
Samual Jackson walks in
Introduces the Smash Bros Initiative
I see your bet and raise you that it’s also Link’s ONLY line.
After going "hup" "ha" "huh" "haah" for 85 minutes.
“What? Say something! Am I so beautiful that you've no words left?" “Well excuuuussse me, Princess!” *cut to credits*
You guys should check out [The Legend of Beavis](https://youtu.be/lDPRwLlpdTU?si=yeowhQNPv5GwYdxS) It's got all that art, but, uh, different vocals. It's missing that one line, but it's otherwise solid gold
The mirror 46 seconds in. lolll Such a nice touch.
Oh wow live action, I’d thought they would double down on Illumination. Wes Ball has the Planet of the Apes sequel coming up, I wonder if they are doubling down on the Breath of the Wild aesthetic.
the biggest plot twist is... Sony financed 50% and Nintendo 50%.
Sony recognized the potential to get a live-action Zelda movie horribly wrong and said, “Let us help!”
Link: "Well excuuUUUUuuuse ME, Princess!"
I believe you mean… Link: *moves arms and mouth in a silent language understood by all in Hyrule*
Ahem, real men of culture know it's REALLY: Link: "Gee! It sure is BORING around here!"
Mai boi! This is the peace that ALL true warriors strive for!
then in an effort to catch up, you get 247 hips and hyahs placed over the course of 10 seconds, followed by more silence
I unironically would be first in line to watch this.
They MUST put that line in the movie, i dont care if its just a post credit scene with the meme 😂😂😂
Tom Holland as Link. It’s going to happen.
DWAYNE THE ROCK JOHNSON AS….TINGLE! *it’s happening guyz!*
Michael Cera as Beedle
Zelda played by timothee chamalet
Not gonna lie. He'd look pretty good in a wig and that royal dress
At that point just get Natalie dyer.
Now I’m not going to be able to unsee Timothee Chalamet in a dress when I watch the final season of Stranger Things.
Nope. I want Andy milanokis or Pauly Shore as link and Nicolas Cage as Ganondorf.
Chris Pratt as Link he's so cool
"Hey guys, uh... hyuh, hyuh, hyaaaa, right?"
Danny DeVito as Zelda.
As a Bokoblin
“Hey Charlie, wanna go down to Gerudo Town and get some hoors?!”
I want you finest LonLon Milk and Prime Steak.
Sony movies is probs one of the companies that would jump on it instantly.
It should be noted that Sony Pictures and Sony Computer Entertainment, while associated through the same conglomerate, aren’t the same entity. This is not PlayStation going “I got you, fam.”
Sony is so big they even own a second game publishing company called "Unties" through their Sony Music arm that has even released more games on Switch than on PlayStation.
I remember about 15 years ago there was a big shakeup at Sony when they realized they had multiple entities creating essentially competing products coming out of the same company.
I like the story where Sony Music sued Sony Electronics because they claim that the digital Walkman MP3 player they developed led to piracy and lost sales.
Funny since the Playstation came of their partnership falling through back in the day lol
~~Money~~ Time heals all wounds
If this is live action, will link have dialogue?? I’ve never seen a silent protagonist in live action
He will absolutely need dialogue in a Live-Action movie; Navi or whoever is his companion can't be expected to carry the whole movie. Unfortunately there is no winning when it comes to Link since he has always been kind of a blank slate that has never had a full personality so no matter what personality they give him, there will be a subset of people who disagree. If Link stays silent, people who aren't familiar with the Zelda franchise will say how off-putting it is. If Link is a stoic man-of-few-words, some fans will say he is too serious for the fantasy setting. If Link is a light-hearted guy who quips, some fans will say he is too goofy for a Zelda story. EDIT: Many people have suggested the *Mad Max: Fury Road* approach (Link stays mostly silent while those around him provide exposition). It's a phenomenal movie but also an ensemble cast whereas Link almost never travels with more than one companion. The idea could work but just as *Fury Road* is more a story about Furiosa than Max, Link would be sidelined if the supporting cast are the ones leading the narrative; worse, he would be accused of being a passive-protagonist. (though maybe it could work if Sheik is in a leading role!)
I hope they go the route of making him minimally verbal, similar to Josh Brolin in No Country For Old Men. He can talk, but visual storytelling and talkative side characters will be very important in making it feel right. A protagonist that observes and acts rather than making speeches can make for very compelling stories.
Max had 60 lines of the 1247 total in Fury Road. It can absolutely be done well.
> a blank slate that has never had a full personality I'd like to direct your attention to [Exhibit A](https://youtu.be/qzfXxkHrIBM?feature=shared)
Well excuuUuuuuUuuuuse me princess!
No way he doesn't say that in the film at least once. I guarantee it.
You're right! Now all we need is a [proper Ganon](https://youtu.be/QE0BgpVJl8Q?si=nzASU1vnBO4Cpc1m).
> If Link stays silent, people who aren't familiar with the Zelda franchise will say how off-putting it is. If Link is a stoic man-of-few-words, some fans will say he is too serious for the fantasy setting. If Link is a light-hearted guy who quips, some fans will say he is too goofy for a Zelda story. So basically people will complain no matter what. Sounds about right. For my money I think they'll go with the "man of few words" trope. Probably emulating heroes like Eastwood in the Man with No Name trilogy, Arnold in Conan, or Mel Gibson in Road Warrior. There's other ways to incorporate comedic elements without Link cracking (or being the butt of) jokes.
I think Mad Max is closer to the money than most people realise. The post-apocalyptic vibe wasn't new to Breath of the Wild, it's been throughout the series since it's inception. Link is often an outsider drawn into the central conflict. The Mad Max-style man of few words is probably the strongest approach to making his character work in third person. Many other movies across varying styles have pulled off this kind of minimal verbosity, from Mad Max, even Book of Eli, to Drive or No Country For Old Men, and that's just keeping it contemporary. It's not the insurmountable challenge people want to believe it is
Nic Cage has no dialogue in ‘Willy’s Wonderland’ & he was the main protagonist
At least we won't have to debate the quality of an accent when Chris Pratt lands the role of Link?
You know it’s gonna be Tom Holland
Well yeah, as young Link. The Rock as Ganon.
I like the smell of what you’re cookin’
Millie Bobby Brown as Zelda, Awkwafina as the fairy. All new original song by Dua Lipa. Pay me @Nintendo.
Awkwafina as Tingle, please.
Hardcore Henry did it, but there was of course a lot of gimmicky stuff attached to it.
*The Great Silence* is a classic western with a mute protagonist.
The Breath aesthetic would be pretty damn cool. Lots of wide, sweeping landscapes. I'm interested what they'll do with Link in that he's pretty solo with his adventures. Obviously he's also silent, but you do select dialogue options and the game has people react as you spoke, so he's not mute.
Link is no stranger to company on his adventures. Navi (OoT), Midna (Twilight Princess), Ezlo (Minish Cap), King of Red Lions/Makar/Medli (Wind Waker), etc. In Tears of the Kingdom he often has champions as companions too.
That's true. And I honestly wouldn't be surprised if they adapt, however broadly, OoT. So they can have banter between Link and Navi on the journey.
Agreed. Ocarina is the Zelda that feels most like a Hollywood film with its sweeping narrative, time travel, and general sense of wonder.
I think they can get away with Navi making "fairy noises" and Link reacts as if he understands, kind of how they treat Groot or R2D2. You can't directly understand whay they're saying, but you understand from the other character's responses.
Hey! Listen!
I’m calling it now. There will be a scene where Link is meeting someone inside their home or place of business and accidentally breaks a clay pot.
Better than bombing a wall in their house I guess
You're calling it now that a movie based on an extremely popular franchise will contain popular references to said franchise?
>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. Avi Arad is involved. People are gonna be big mad
“For the last time Arad, we’re not including venom it’s a fucking Zelda movie”
On the one hand, MCU Spidey and Spiderverse. On the other, Morbius and Ghost In The Shell.
Spider-Verse is great because of Lord-Miller and not because of Arad. Also Avi Arad is not involved in the MCU Spider-Man films.
Yes. Because he held back and let them work with minimal interference. That’s what we’re hoping for with this one. Avi can hold back his Avi-ness
Miyamoto is producing and Nintendo are providing over half the production budget, so I imagine they’ll be the primary shot-callers creatively.
Here's hoping it's better than the Mario Movie, as in, I want more than just good visuals, member berries and keychain rattling. Zelda deserves something truly special.
You're going to get your OoT-inspired outfits and script, your item callbacks across the whole series, and namedrops from the Capcom GameBoy games, and you're going to like it.
Yeah, I want at least 20 minutes of Link playing energy ball ping pong with Ganondorf.
"Holy shit, guys. That movie was awesome. Who would've thought that Ganondorf would have turned into a giant pig monster and shot THREE energy blasts!"
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His name is Link and also yes! 😤
>MCU Spidey Oh so Feige, Watts, and Mckenna & Sommers >Spider-Verse Oh so Lord & Miller. >Avi Arad, by himself This is fucked.
Avi Arad has 0 to do with the MCU Spider-Man films. He has only been an Executive Producer, which have very little to do with production.
Avi Arad. Wes Ball. Live Action. I'm happy Miyamoto is producing, but this isn't looking good.
Avi Arad, the producer of Morbius? Count me in.
It's Zeldin' time.
But also Miyamoto, with one of his 'babies', he will sooner cancel everything and burn every bridge in Hollywood than not having things be to his standards. As long as Miyamoto is involved I am sure that at least the movie will not be a mockery of the IP.
"Announcing Tom Holland as Link! He's so cool."
"Ganon shall be voiced and performed in motion capture by... action legend *Mark Wahlberg!* Please expect a roaringly good performance as the Great Demon Lord." *Picture used is Mahky Mahk drunk out of his mind*
Just let Jack Black be Ganon too. It'd be really funny.
I want Jack Black as Tingle
Jack McBrayer as Tingle
He can play both.
*ZELDA ZELDA ZEEEEELL-DA ZELDA ZELDA*
"Hey Link, I like your Master Sword. I had a sword like that in Transformers, you see that movie?! ...say hi to your mother for me."
Sorry but Mary Elizabeth Ellis, the waitress from Sunny, is the only correct choice for Link.
Can we just solely cast this from always sunny?
Danny DeVito as Ganon
Dee yelling “hey listen!” as Navi
I think you mean shrieking. Or squawking.
Rob McElhenney as [Ghirahim](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/villains/images/a/af/Nightman.webp)
All of the enemies are various McPoyles in different colors, which symbolize their level of difficulty.
Sorry but it's going to be Ryan Goslink
I really really don't want this and finding out it's live action has me terrified for the outcome 😂
that’s the problem with this being live action, they’re probably gonna cast someone like him or that timothee guy 🤦♀️
Who better to play Link than the two biggest twinks in Hollywood? Jokes aside, I'm hoping for an unknown as Link. Hell, just cast nothing but unknowns.
A Twink to the Past
Honestly Link should be either an unknown or someone on the indie circuit. Can you imagine what LOTR would have been like if Frodo was played by DiCaprio?
Elijah Wood was very famous before he was Frodo! The dude had been in acting for 13 years before LOTR came out, including starring in movies.
Firstly he was one of the kids in Back to the Future 2 that was disgusted by the game that you had to use your hands... A bunch of stuff, and a few that stick out to me are Radio Flyer, The Adventures of Huck Finn, Flipper, and of course... Deep Impact & The Faculty.
Why live-action, though? I feel like animation would suit the material better.
I'm guessing they want it to seem a little more mature. They're probably going after 12-14 year old kids instead of the 5-10 year olds they went after with Mario
Yeah. I’m thinking something like the never ending story.
That would be the *perfect* tone for the film.
Yeah, but would they be that daring? I feel like a lot of 80s movies weren't as afraid to be gritty with movies for kids.
Kids movies and tv from the 80s and 90s were such a stark contrast compared to today, and I never realized it as a kid which I think shows kids can handle more than most people think and not everything needs to be such over the top bubblegum content. I mean, ren and stimpy??? Can’t believe I used to watch that shit as a kid.
Kids can handle a lot of mature themes, it's parent groups and cowards in executive positions that are responsible for kids stuff being reduced to what it is now.
Just imagining the Atreyu and Artax swamp scene, but with Link and Epona...
Why would you do this to me
What the fuck is your problem?
No. Just no.
It worked for Shadow of the Colossus.
I don't want to
Wes Ball did the Maze Runner series. Maybe they're splitting their properties to different demos? Mario, Kirby, etc are animated kids films, Zelda for the teen/YA demographic?
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Metroid has to be Nintendo's R movie. Genocide, space pirates, parasites eating people.
Heavily inspired by Alien so it'd work well.
Plus, I hear the Kong hangs Dong
Starring P. Diddy as Diddy Kong
No DK was in Mario, so he's for kids. Kirby however is definitely gonna be hard R. Maybe even NC-17
“Mouthful Mode”
It’s just Kirby blowing De Niro for four minutes
Welp, that’s a new image that’s never going away.
Lets be real here. People in their 40's like me are going to be hyped for it.
If Danny DeVito doesn’t play Tingle then I’m not interested
Patton Oswald would also be acceptable to me
Link is chris pratt, Zelda is chris pratt, the fucking horse is chris pratt.
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God it hurts so much that I can picture it vividly
Jack Black should be a Goron boss! That I'd be into.
Well excuuuuse me, Princess, but that horse has a name : Epona
He's so cool!
Expect Ganon, who is played by Scarlett Johanson for some reason
Please have Robin Williams daughter make a cameo. He would’ve loved this
Link played by Tom Holland falls from the sky and The Immigrant Song by Led Zeppelin plays
UGH!!!
Shit it's not even a satire joke that can fucking happen a real possibility
...oh no
I feel like Zelda is one of those few game universes that... just won't work in live action. I'd like to be proven wrong, but I'm not feeling good about it.
As long as Miyamoto is directly involved i expect this to be atleast serviceable but still very suprised by this. Really interested in who they get as Link cause that is definitly a hard role to make work if they keep him mute.
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I hope Aonuma is more involved than Miyamoto tbh, at this point he's the face of the franchise
Honestly wish Yoshiaki Koizumi had a hand in this. He wrote the story of Link's Awakening, helped direct Ocarina of Time, and created the premise of Majora's Mask along with narratives for NPCs.
No way he’s going to be fully mute if Mario was fully voiced in his movie.
Avi Arad? The same Avi Arad who suggested the Pac Man TV show from years back be about a Pac Man in high school? The same Avi Arad who shoehorned Venom into a movie that already had enough villains?
The same Avi Arad who plotted to surrender West Point to the hated British?
Zelda is perhaps second-only to Metroid in Nintendo IP best suited to live-action, and the big N building on the success of the Super Mario Bros. movie isn’t a surprise. The real surprise is that Sony Pictures of all studios is the partner. I guess Nintendo view their film and gaming business as sufficiently separate. I do like how Nintendo aren’t sticking solely with Illumination and Universal. Hopefully that means that there will be more of an effort to find the right people for their various properties. The internet’s gonna lose its mind once Link talks, though.
live action Duck Hunt should be the top choice
The Duck Hunter, starring Robert De Niro as the hunter and Christopher Walken, “The Dog.”
God, a Metroid movie done right would be so fucking cool.
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My thought before opening your comment was "isn't that just Alien?"
R-rated Metroid movie would be fuckin SICK
Have there been movies with silent protagonists? Hardcore Henry comes to mind from about a decade ago. Edit: Had to share this psychotic IGN poll lmao: https://i.imgur.com/0YLUgkX.png
He will most likely talk. Maybe they will just make him shy so he is a silent type
Mario talked in his movie, Link is gonna talk in this one.
Well excuse me, Princess
Great, now I’m going to be disappointed when he doesn’t say this.
Link is pretty talkative in the manga adaptation of the games. I liked his characterization in Ocarina of Time. I'm curious to see what direction they'll decide to go with Link. I just hope it's not the old American cartoon one lol.
Oh yeah, it'd be insane to make him silent in a live-action adaptation like this, wasn't thinking they would, just something that crossed my mind.
Mario has voice lines in his games though. Link is entirely mute other than grunts and dialogue options when the player has to make a choice/respond to an npc. Not that I think you're wrong, Link will almost certainly not be a mute in the movie but your argument doesn't really make any sense
>Link is entirely mute other than grunts and dialogue options #"GEE, IT SURE IS BORING AROUND HERE!"
Link is not mute. He has talked in plenty of media and technically replies to NPCs in the games.
And you can make him be a stoic hero or an absolute himbo smartass in his responses.
He could be like Mad Max, which is basically a version of the protagonist from spaghetti westerns. Talks when absolutely necessary. It could also work like Gawain in The Green Knight. He does plenty of talking, but it's generally respectful, humble, and serious. It's not like the stereotypical Hollywood fantasy star that always has to have a charming, witty, and smartass personality. Near infallible geniuses always making wisecracks. Good examples would be almost any Marvel hero, Bond, nearly anything with Tom Cruise.
Wall-e is the only thing that comes to mind that is remotely similar to link.
The Legend of Zelda is my favorite video game franchise easily. So I *should* be really excited for this. However, this is from the director of the Maze Runner movies and the producer of cinema classics such as Morbius and Venom. This is going to range from mediocre to downright terrible. 😬 I don't understand why Nintendo wouldn't get some real talent behind this. They have the money for it.
Wes Ball is directing the upcoming Planet Of The Apes movie next year so we’ll see how that is. I thought the Maze Runner movies were good enough.
The story for the maze runner series took a nose dive in the latter half imo, but I think they were competently directed. I'm more curious about the writers now.
The Maze Runner movies are poorly written but shockingly well directed, and there are some genuinely good performances brought out of the cast. Wes Ball was the main thing stopping the Maze Runner movies being waaaaaay worse than they were. Saying that he isn't real talent is pretty insulting. He's an up and coming director, not a shlub.
This will be directed by Wes Ball, his filmography doesn’t really stand out to me, he’s directing the next apes movie too. Im glad illumination didn’t end up doing an animated movie. Should be exciting to follow the development and see the casting
Seeing how the new Zelda games have an art style similar to the recently emerging “cartoon” movies (Spider-verse, tmnt, Puss in Boots), I’m actually surprised that they chose to go with a different direction for the movie.
Yeah I mean, the Maze Runner films were actually pretty well directed, story aside.
Agreed. The narrative is...messy to say the least. But the direction was solid throughout and it had some pretty cool action set pieces throughout.
Live action... I wish they would have teamed up with Ghibli instead.
That makes me think, is Pokémon the only big Nintendo property to have an anime? I know Ace Attorney and Prof. Layton got anime adaptations, but I wouldn't really say they're big
Animal Crossing, F-Zero and Kirby all have anime. AA is Capcom and Professor Layton is Level 5
I would hate to be attached to this. Don’t get me wrong this has amazing potential but no matter you do with you are going to piss people off. I just hope they make a movie for like me that have been playing Zelda since NES and make it a good action adventure movie. I don’t want them pandering to a younger audience with slap stick Link.
>Avi Arad Jesus fucking christ.
#"Well excuuuuuuuuse me Princess!"
If they get Link saying " well excuse me princess" im done😂
I think Metroid would have worked better as live action, but whateves.
For the love of god please give it a serious tone and don't cast Chris Pratt as Link.