How much we want to bet the first big budget live action movie from the Zelda franchise will not feature Link as the main character or hero but will put the princess as the hero, main protagonist and will have to save Link from himself at some point?
I think that’s pretty unlikely, Link is the iconic Zelda character. It’s more likely they will go down the direction of making the two co-leads who meet early in the film and go on an adventure together to save Hyrule. I don’t think the old trope of “hero saves the princess”, or the modern reverse of that, will be a central part of the plot.
Why the photo of Zelda with a quiver then?
How does that contradict anything I said?
You said it’s unlikely but the article has Zelda as a protagonist, suggesting it’s quite likely.
A film can have more than one protagonist. It’s actually very common to have co-leads.
EDIT: Maybe you haven’t been following this film at all, but the singular photo in this article was from a much earlier photo shoot that had the two leads standing side-by-side. It’s not an indication that Zelda is the sole main character of the film.
Maybe they’ve cast Jack Black as Ganondorf lol
His Bowser was the best part of the animated movie.
Was it? I’ve found Jack Black annoying in everything he’s ever done. I do not understand the hype people have for him.
I don’t hate him but he can’t be anyone other than jack black. Every appearance I can only see him as jack black and not the character he is supposed to be acting as. He replaces the character.
That’s the sign of a bad actor. It’s like reverse type casting.
Same way you watch 1989 Batman, and you see Jack Nicholas in face paint.
That’s his character though - annoying, but loyal loser struggling to make it Ina cruel world. It’s what he does.
It wasn’t a high bar.
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No no no. Jack Black played Bowser.
OBVIOUSLY they cast Weird Al Yankovich.
Nintendo desperately trying to keep their IPs relevant instead of releasing good new games.
I had no idea game developers filmed movies these days /s
Still wish we got Hunter Schafer cast as Zelda.
Casting a girl as Zelda? When will the woke mob stop gender swapping characters??
Next thing you know, they’ll cast Margot Robbie as Metroid. Smh my head.
I know you’re joking, but I’m not.
No no no.
Not her.
Not Margot Robie.
… Her.
Olivia Thrilby.
It’s only fitting for her to get a movie where she’s the one behind a helmet this time.
Tell me she would not be a perfect fit as Samus.
You can’t.
Instructions unclear. Scarlett Johansen cast as Samus.
Samus is asian?
I understood that reference
What movie is that?
DREDD (2012)
The more modern Judge Dredd movie.
Mainly features Karl Urban’s chin, as Judge Dredd.
He never takes off the helmet. Before Hollywood had even discovered Pedro Pascal / Mando.
Its essentially a near perfect action movie.
Not really meaningful commentary on society, arguably is copaganda…
… but it is a very competent ‘dumb’ action movie, punctuated with extreme violence and one-liner quips, actually does have decent characters and even some character development!
Well thats going on my to-watch list, right at the top there.
I don’t know who Hunter Schafer is, but how about Hunter Biden as Zelda? Or Hunter Hearst Helmsly as Zelda?
Or you can go the easy route and pick Zelda Williams as Zelda…who does a lot of impressions of Genie from Alladin for NO REASON!!!
You ain’t never gonna have a friend like me!
Exactly what I came here to say!!
I just hope there’s as much dancing as Link did in the 90s
(to get that url I had to click on “copy link”)
And now they need a few years in the special effects department to apply the classical 8bit charm.
I have been dreaming of a TLoZ movie since I was a child. However, as most video game adaptions, I expect this will be rather shitty. At least I try to. To keep the level of disappointment low.
Its going to take a lot of work to turn all that footage into pixel art.
Get Joel Haver to help rotoscoping it. And keep in all the fucked up artifacting because the tech isn’t perfect.
Ralph Bakshi, is that you?
I wonder if Link will speak or not.
I’d like it if every time he starts to speak Navi yells LISTEN!
ngl, I’d lose it if his only line is a well-placed “well, eXcUsE mE, PrInCeSs!”
EDIT: I see that I am far from the only person to make this joke. Please accept my apologies for my lack of originality. For penance I shall spend an hour walking among ReDeads but not battling them.
i would like to present to you the concept of parallel development. you were just as original as everyone else who has the same thought that developed into the same shape. it’s the brainworm version of carcinization
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People seem to be confused about why they thought this is a good idea, but to me this is expected.
I don’t follow what Miyamoto does much, but based on what I heard (like Chris Pratt Mario…) I feel he’s a showoff who probably wants ANY live-action movie of a Nintendo IP because it’d be cool. Zelda is the best one to qualify, maybe Metroid or Xenoblade (both of which are way less popular). They even tried more realism back with Twilight Princess.
I actually expect it’ll be more or less like the Mario movie again, an unimpressive but solid success.
He already got that decades ago tho…
I would love a Metroid film, but one that takes its cues from Moon where Samus is basically alone, but she has some kind of JARVIS-like companion with which to speak. Just big, abandoned spaces, punctuated by action set pieces.
Uh, given the recent spate of … Nintendo movies… and fantasy shows… and the fact that Link is a silent protagonist (aside of basically grunts and exclamations of various emotional tones)…
I really don’t see any possible way this could be good.
Brought to you by the director of ‘Maze Runner’, which currently has ~66% critic and user review score on Rotten Tomatoes.
Well EXCUUUUUUUSE ME! Princess…
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while I agree with you, I’m hoping they pull it off somehow.
some…how…
Somehow, good critic reviews returned
Now you are going to start a nerdy discussion whether Link really can’t talk, doesn’t want or like to talk or does indeed talk, even though not directly shown usually in the games.
There is plenty of reason to assume that he actually can talk fine, it was just omitted for convenience or immersion in the games. It was implied often by the dialogues thoughout various games.
Official mangas show him talking, dialogue options, or that e.g. Zelda learns Links name when asking him in OoT imply this as well.
I actually liked maze runner (the first one), and I don’t think the director was the problem(s) with it more than the story and a few of the actors were
But yeah no shot a Zelda movie is decent
Oh for fucks sake, they made Zelda a girl. Tired of this gender swapping woke shit. /s
Her name is Link, I’ll have you know.
And the page is bugged. I keep clicking on the Link to like and subscribe but it does nothing.
Don’t worry. They already confirmed they’ll do reshoots with Chris Pratt as Zelda.
I just want Yoko Ono to play Navi, and yell HEY!!! LISTEN!!!
I know this is facetious, but the mental image of Yoko Ono trying to act in a movie is making me upset for no understandable reason. Is like my unconscious hates her, for no reason I know or understand…
I don’t think Yoko Ono would act, but it would be a performance nonetheless.
And that mental image in itself is deeply disturbing
Bjork could do it though, and her screams are way less annoying.
Princess Zelda has always been a girl. You might be thinking of the series main character Link who will be played by male actor Benjamin Evan Ainsworth.
This must be a bot ^
This is so stupid. Why make this?
this is so stupid
Open to interpretation, you’re neither right or wrong I suppose. I don’t agree.
why make this
Because Nintendo are starting to do movies.
I really hope Link is going to break some pots.
Scene: storeroom, deep beneath Hyrule castle.
Link: bumps into a ceramic pot, knocking it to the floor, shattering everywhere. Mixed in with the shards of pottery are several rupies.
Zelda: look of shock at what Link did.
Link: looks at pot, scared, then slowly looks up to Zelda.
Zelda: her gaze changes to a mischievous ear-to-ear grin.
Scene: pottery breaking music montage - everything in the storeroom is laid to waste.
More Lindsey Stirling as Link
wait wait link gets really high and scene cut to a bunch of pottery breaking sounds
Wtf is this absolutely cursed image.
i dunno the dog looks high to me when you give him a beard
That dog looks high even without the beard 😂
Uh, why? The art style is part of Zelda.
I was about to say she’s got way too many pixels.
