For many, it is simply the best video game series of all time. But stuck in The Legend of Zelda also a fantasy adventure that belongs on the big screen? That’s what Nintendo is trying to figure out before the end of this decade.
As recently became known through Nintendo’s financial report (via IGN), the live-action adaptation is about the (mostly) green-clad hero Link and Princess Zelda until 2030 gallop into the cinemas.
The Legend of Zelda will be in cinemas by 2030: This is what we know about the video game adventure
The Legend of Zelda began as a video game in 1986 by Super Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto. There are now almost 30 titles from the long-standing fantasy adventure series and there is no end in sight. Sony Pictures and US director Wes Ball (Maze Runner, Planet of the Apes: New Kingdom) are responsible for the film version. Video game god Miyamoto and Avi Arad are involved as producers.
Most Zelda adventures are about a prophesied hero in green who must find the legendary Master Sword in order to restore the magical artifact of the Triforce, defeat the evil Ganon and save Princess Zelda. Director Ball wants to use the works of the Anime legend Hayao Miyazaki (Princess Mononoke) as a role model, he told EW last year:
This breathtaking fantasy adventure film is not like Lord of the Ringsbut his own thing. I’ve always said I’d like to see a live-action Miyazaki film. With the wonder and playful whimsy he brings to things, I’d love to see something like that.
Not the most wrong approach, considering that both anime creator Miyazaki and video game maker Miyamoto were influenced by their childhood memories of the forests of Japan when it comes to their works. Percy Jackson star Walker Scobell has already volunteered for the Link role, but casting has not officially begun yet.
The only question that remains is whether the live-action film can match the legendary Zelda advertisement for the SNES version of the video game from Japan:
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The only official The Legend of Zelda adaptation to date is the American cartoon series from 1989, which was shown as part of the Super Mario Brothers Super Show, among other things.