Nintendo is adapting another major franchise into a film.

Nintendo is adapting another major franchise into a film.

  • Wussy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    8 months 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.

    • Dandroid@dandroid.appEnglish
      4·
      8 months 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.

  • ADHDefy@kbin.social
    133·
    8 months 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?

      • ADHDefy@kbin.social
        6·
        8 months 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

  • JoshuaSlowpoke777@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    8 months 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)

  • Narann@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    8 months 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.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      8 months ago

      I’m glad for the latest Mario movie entirely because of Jack Black as Bowser.

      The Resident Evil films were pretty good, too. The Doom movie was at least as much fun as your standard B-movie shoot’em’up. Uncharted and the first Tomb Raider could have stood in for any Mummy and was head and shoulders above the last two Indiana films. The Street Fighter and Mortal Combat movies were middle-of-the-road genre films.

      I don’t think Zelda has to fail on its face. But I think there’s a lot of places where the screenwriters can go wrong. Translating the dungeons in a Zelda game to the big screen will be difficult in a way a Tomb Raider or Far Cry aren’t. And working side-characters into a game that’s very explicitly a solo adventure will be hard.

      I think they’d have had an easier time with Dragon Quest. I’m very confident they could make a good Metroid movie, since that’s just reskinning Aliens 2. But there are definitely examples of game-to-movie films working, so long as they fit with a traditional Hollywood script. Zelda just doesn’t do that well.

  • Destide@feddit.uk
    English
    8·
    8 months ago

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

  • Chozo@kbin.social
    5·
    8 months 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.

    • 🇰 🔵 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
      5·
      8 months 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!”