The live-action "Legend of Zelda" film will feature Bo Bragason as Zelda and Benjamin Evan Ainsworth as Link
This is Miyamoto. I am pleased to announce that for the live-action film of The Legend of Zelda, Zelda will be played by Bo Bragason-san, and Link by Benjamin Evan Ainsworth-san. I am very much looking forward to seeing both of them on the big screen.
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If Link says anything other than "Hup!" & "Hyyah!" I'm out.
Well excuuuuuuuuse me, princess!
“I’m so hungry, I could eat an Octorok!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDPRwLlpdTU
Fantastic... I've never seen this!
Best random click in a while. Good stuff.
Just once. Right at the end of the movie.
Considering how much rizz link usually has, he’s 100% a mute bard
After watching Hundreds of Beavers, I am for firmly convinced this is a real possibility and anyone who makes Link talk doesn't understand the character.
Holy shit, hundreds of beavers mention. God what a fantastic fucking movie.
Truth
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.
I mean, that is one way to make rupees.
very promising sign that they're casting for the roles instead of casting for recognizable names. i am cautiously optimistic
Chris Pratt as Link!
Danny Devito as the Great Fairy.
I'd watch either of those
While wearing his glasses.
Jack black as gorons. All of them, the whole race.
Taika Watititi as Ganon and also directing
And also the voice of Hestu the korok
Okay, Taika doing hetsu's dance is something I need in my life.
Andy Serkis as Epona.
Tbh I could get behind either of those choices
He’s so cool
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!
Possibly, but it also keeps the budget much lower. Are they casting the best people, or good people who also don't ask for a huge budget?
People young enough whose performance will define the role rather than the role being defined by a well known face. The question will be settled when they announce Ganondorf.
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.
soundtrack will carry the movie for sure!
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 think their only hope is to go with a small, small story that only hints at the larger world. If they try to go epic then the movie universe begins and ends with this one entry.
I don't think they can resist the trap of going for the obvious epic world-stakes kind of story though.
I assume they'll go "Tears of the Kingdom" or "Hyrule" instead of "Ocarina of Time" or "Majora's Mask."
Which starts off mid.
Is there a remind me bot for Lemmy?
There's a couple on mastodon, so you might be able to ping one of them from a comment.
I don't remember how to compose a reply than pings a user from Connect on my phone, tho. So, I can't provide an example.
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.
I was so invested in that casting ʕ ͡° ʖ̯ ͡°ʔ
My hopes raised and expertly dashed. 🙃
I really wish they had picked Hunter for Zelda 😔
And Tom Holland for Link right?
And the movie now costs an extra 30 million
Cowards, honestly
he'll be that annoying flying thing that i forgot the name of
Tingle?
Tongle is gonna be played by Jack Black and you know it.
Kooloo Limpah!!
Make him a young goron, alongside The Rock as an elder goron
And Jack Black will be the voice and mo-cap for Fi.
Actors wear costumes? Youdontsay.jpg
It'll never beat the cd-i
Mah boi.
Zelda is the boy.
Always has been
That's brown. Not sure how they come to that conclusion of colour
The tunic is clearly white and gold!
It’s not “dark green,” that’s for sure.
https://www.color-hex.com/color-palette/112720
I mean, I guess. but JFC that's a horrible colour (#6e7864 [110,120,100])that bares very little resemblence to the other greens.
It only has 10 units more of green than red and only 20 units more than blue.
oh dear make this stop
Went to look at photos and just "Huh that is straight up Zelda" so I'm hopeful!
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
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.
Please don’t do this. We’re begging.
I don’t know about good or bad……. It’s going to be weird. And who?