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Nintendo is adapting another major franchise into a film.

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[-] helloharu@lemmy.world 37 points 2 years ago
[-] picandocodigo@lemmy.world 36 points 2 years ago

I don't know if I should be excited or scared 😳

[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

I would be scared but after Super Mario surprised me so much with how amazing it was, I'm willing to at least give it the benefit of the doubt.

[-] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Detective Pikachu and Mario were both great.

[-] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago

One piece has also been a nice surprise.

[-] Zorque@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

Cautiously hopeful I think is the best we can muster.

[-] Wussy@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago

From the director of Maze Runner, the screenwriter of The Rise of Skywalker and the producer of Mobius. I don't see what could possibly go wrong with this movie.

[-] Patches@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

It's Zorldo time?

[-] Logster998@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

“Hopefully the foods better in this joint”

[-] SeethingSloth@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

I hope we get some good Koji Kondo music out of this.

[-] dandroid@dandroid.app 5 points 2 years ago

I thought the Mario movie had a 10/10 soundtrack, so if they can just do the same thing but for Zelda music, I will be thrilled.

[-] Donebrach@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

Would’ve preferred a Studio Ghibli animated film.

[-] Patches@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

Isn't he retired.. again... for like the 5th time?

[-] Donebrach@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Ghibli can still make films without Miyazaki directing. When’s the last time Walt Disney worked on a film?

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[-] ADHDefy@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I was hyped until I saw that Avi "Compulsively Ruins Spider-Man Movies" Arad is producing. 😬

EDIT: Oh and it's Sony. And the director choice.... eeeeeeeehhh. Here's hoping for a pleasant surprise, I guess?

[-] IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

He has some good movies under his belt. Into the Spider Verse was good. And he did the Iron Man movie.

[-] ADHDefy@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That's fair. He also did the first couple Raimi Spider-Man flicks and the '97 X-Men cartoon. So he has worked on some solid projects. But looking through his IMDB credits is mostly not inspiring. He's produced most of the worst superhero movies ever made and few of the best. lol

[-] Blademax@lemmy.one 11 points 2 years ago

The "Well, excuuuuuuse me, Princess!" Version of link?

[-] Narann@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

Zelda has a such potential to fail on a full feature that I don’t keep my expectation that high.

Silent Hill is still the only movie I consider good, because the original medium had a huge amount of content that match full feature requirement.

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[-] JoshuaSlowpoke777@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

Arguably, whether this turns out decent or atrocious may depend, in part, on whether it’s a straight adaptation of the games (removes sensory elements that games and film don’t have in common, causing serious issues); or if it’s something that would fit better in a film, albeit taking place in Hyrule.

It may also depend on whether portions of the production team actively dislike the source material (cough cough Netflix Witcher cough cough)

Can't wait to see who they pick to play Zelda, the hero of the game!

[-] sirico@feddit.uk 8 points 2 years ago

Well excuse me princess but we already have an absolute classic on the cdi

[-] Poggervania@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago

I will laugh if they decide to cast Orlando Bloom as Link.

[-] CodingCarpenter@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

Nah man it's going to be Orlando Jones

[-] Centillionaire@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

HE’S SO COOL!!!

[-] Somewhereunknown7351@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago

If they keep the story small enough, it could work. If they try to cram the last 3 decades or lore and plot and characters into 1 movie, it'll just fall apart

[-] maxprime@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

I wonder if link will have any lines.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

He spoke quite a lot in the cartoon series, and from some of the reactions his silent dialogue receives in the games, as well as how he is portrayed in ads and other Nintendo produced media, they seem to have kept his personality very similar if not the same as that cartoon version of Link.

"Excuuuuuuuse me, Princess!"

[-] kakes@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago

This can go one of two very different ways.

I'm personally hoping for a super dark, gritty movie that I know will never ever happen.

I'm pretty sick of the 90s+ edgification of old IPs, but even I would be very interested to see the attempt.

Although a lot of modern Zelda fans are kids, so they need to appeal to them first, with all their latent purchasing power 🤩 just about to start getting jobs and buying their own consoles

[-] kakes@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

Honestly, I think I just want to see Majora's Mask.

Ohhh, that would be good

[-] Chozo@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

It's about time. Nintendo's been toying with the idea of a Zelda movie for years, so I'm glad to see that something may finally come of it. I'm really interested to see who they're going to cast for this.

[-] Seraph@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

Well, the franchise was nice while it lasted!

Maybe it's not that bad, the last Doom game was decent despite that awful Doom movie having existed.

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[-] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

Oh, please make it a trilogy! Past, Present, and Future! This is going to be absolutely amazing.

[-] morphballganon@mtgzone.com 2 points 2 years ago

Finding actors for Link and Zelda, fine. But who on Earth could do Ganondorf justice? How do you translate the Gerudo to live-action film? Black actors with red wigs? Mixed-race actors with red wigs? Mixed-race actors with their natural hair, straightened and dyed red?

There are some lighter-skinned Gerudo in BotW/TotK. Would the actors all be pretty monotonous in look to give them a coherent race identity?

[-] Maalus@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago
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[-] ErrorWave@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Christopher Judge

[-] Maultasche@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

I hope they take inspiration from the Twilight Princess manga.

[-] atomWood@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago
[-] De_Narm@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Of couse they do. For how forgettable the Mario movie was, it basically printed money. If they want to get me hyped they could announce something in the spirit of Twilight Princess instead of a throw-away comedy. But this would make less money and therefore wont be made.

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