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where is chris Pratt
Make him a young goron, alongside The Rock as an elder goron
Not Hunter Schafer. I'm out.
Looks like they're going younger with the casting. The characters are kids in most of the games after all.
My hopes raised and expertly dashed. 🙃
If Link says anything other than "Hup!" & "Hyyah!" I'm out.
Well excuuuuuuuuse me, princess!
Just once. Right at the end of the movie.
Considering how much rizz link usually has, he’s 100% a mute bard
very promising sign that they're casting for the roles instead of casting for recognizable names. i am cautiously optimistic
Chris Pratt as Link!
Yeah I've got to say it is a very positive sign that I don't know either of these actors. Also helps with suspension of disbelief.
Definitely, and it's also wild just how out of left field these choices feel in general. Which is a good thing!
who?
Prediction: this will suck.
I'm not confident about it, but I sure hope you're wrong!
In comparison to the animated Mario movie, most likely.
Live action doesn’t usually translate as well from animated/rendered media.
Personally I think Zelda is better off being live action than the kind of style Illumination/DreamWorks is known for.
Other than the Toon Link games the series has always had a more anatomical art style that is rarely seen in Western animated film.
That’s fair.
Dream world would have Ghibli pick it up, or the team(s) behind Secret Level.
But we’re already in motion on this plan so just gotta cross our fingers and hope for the best.
I hope 3/4 of the budget goes into smashing pots.
Don't forget all the bush trimming.
... no, no THAT!!!
I hope it's not full of fan service comedy, though. That stuff worked in the animated Mario adaptation, but Zelda is generally a more serious franchise with more adult themes. If it tries to do the family friendly "laughs for all ages" thing it is going to cross over into cringe territory very quickly.
Today's image of the pair looks to feature the actors in some sort of costume for their roles
Actors wear costumes? Youdontsay.jpg
It'll never beat the cd-i
Please don’t do this. We’re begging.
Eh. We'll see how it turns out 🤷🏻♀️
or we won't because Nintendo will relegate it to the archives like they almost did for SMB.
Somehow didn't expect them to pick such a young actor for Link, even though it does correspond to Link's age in many of the games.
I'm really curious to see more of this movie. I think Zelda is a really difficult series to adapt well.
I predict the movie itself will be kind of meh, but the soundtrack will be awesome
Oooh I hadn't even thought of that. I was treating this movie with a sense of dread, but I am excited to hear new music with the motifs of the games.
I really wish they had picked Hunter for Zelda 😔
I don’t know about good or bad……. It’s going to be weird. And who?
Zelda is the boy.
oh dear make this stop
What, they're making a zelda movie?
Yes. Finally.
I remember reading about a film studio acquiring the rights to make a Zelda and a Metroid movie way back in or just after high school and then it just never happened and that's how I came to learn that sometimes studios buy the rights for a thing not to make the thing, but to prevent a competitor from making that thing.
Ah like those fantastic four movies
Ainsworth, meanwhile, wears what appears to be a dark green tunic.
That's brown. Not sure how they come to that conclusion of colour
Thats very much a green, a muted earthy green.
The tunic is clearly white and gold!
It’s not “dark green,” that’s for sure.
this post was submitted on 16 Jul 2025
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