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Just announced today via the new Nintendo Today app.

 

[Gaiff]

Really curious what personality they’ll give Link and who will play him.

 

[PauloRoberto]

I feel this movie will be visually speaking like The Hobbit trilogy with less dark parts (which is not a bad thing per se).

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

Tom Holland As Link
Zendaya as Zelda
Chris Pratt as Ganon
Nicholas Cage as Tingle

 

[TintoConCasera]

Really curious what personality they’ll give Link and who will play him.

Tom Holland. With that chick from Mad Max as Zelda, Jack Black as the Great Deku Tree and The Rock as Epona.

 

[Loomy]

Really curious what personality they’ll give Link and who will play him.

Whichever they go with everyone will hate it lol

 

[Doctor Hades]

Kind of wish this was a CGI movie like the excellent Super Mario movie as that perfectly captured the essence of the video game it was based on in my opinion. Hard to imagine what a live action Zelda movie would look like with Link played by an actor. I'm expecting to be underwhelmed.

 

[ReBurn]

Tom Holland As Link
Zendaya as Zelda
Chris Pratt as Ganon
Nicholas Cage as Tingle

This but Tom Holland as Zelda and Zendaya as Link.

 

[Punished Miku]

Link will be a kid. It's got to be a kids movie. No one else will take it seriously. Or do Ocarina where he's a kid and an adult.

 

[HRK69]

I feel this movie will be visually speaking like The Hobbit trilogy with less dark parts (which is not a bad thing per se).

With 48fps and all?

 

[intbal]

Link - Debra Wilson
Zelda - Kim Kardashian
Ganon - Shia LeBeouf

 

[PauloRoberto]

With 48fps and all?

Im talking about the visuals, not the tech. (we are talking about a Ninendo franchise... it will be 30 fps down to 20 at Kakariko Village)

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

This but Tom Holland as Zelda and Zendaya as Link.

 

[Gaiff]

Tom Holland. With that chick from Mad Max as Zelda, Jack Black as the Great Deku Tree and The Rock as Epona.

Tom Holland as Link isn’t even that outlandish.

I wonder if he’ll speak with a British accent. Also will it be just fantasy like LOTR or comedy/fantasy?

 

[Bruno_Arrais85]

why live action.... It will be a disaster

 

[AJUMP23]

Nintendo dropping bangers in the app.

Link - Sydney Sweeny
Zelda - Anna Taylor Joy
Gannon - Selma Hyak

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Tom Holland As Link
Zendaya as Zelda
Chris Pratt as Ganon
Nicholas Cage as Tingle

 

[adamsapple]

Really curious what personality they’ll give Link and who will play him.

 

[Mephisto40]

This is 100% going to have Jack Black and The Rock in it

 

[Robb]

Kind of wish this was a CGI movie like the excellent Super Mario movie as that perfectly captured the essence of the video game it was based on in my opinion. Hard to imagine what a live action Zelda movie would look like with Link played by an actor. I'm expecting to be underwhelmed.

I’d guess it’ll basically be CGI considering even “realistic” movies these days are made up of 95% special effects.

But yeah, I’d have expected them to go the animated route as well.

Very curious to see what this will look like..

 

[Dr.D00p]

Haha, can you imagine the creative control freakery Nintendo will demand on the script and director..

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

Directed by Leslye Headland, starring Amandla Stenberg as girlboss Zelda.

 

[Punished Miku]

The only way to make it work, make him a kid. Then as an adult he'll be like Shazam, kid in an adult body.

 

[Robb]

Directed by Leslye Headland, starring Amandla Stenberg as girlboss Zelda.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Dont touch my Malon, Cremia, Romani, Marín, Lana.

 

[Nankatsu]

Good chance to cast a mute person since Link doesn't speak

 

[BbMajor7th]

Bound to be nothing more than two hours of shallow iconography studded with overplayed Hollywood twots. And, yeah, there's no way it'll launch to largely middling reviews offset by bumper box office takings, mostly driven by starry-eyed thirty-somethings who 'want to make up their own minds' or are 'seeing it with the kids'. Oh, and folks who are like:

"When the Great Deku Tree died, I was literally in pieces..."

 

[diffusionx]

Hopefully I won't be alive to see this.

 

[BlackTron]

Link fighting Palutena in a brief Smash intro is probably the best we'll ever get.

 

[Hookshot]

Should never have been live action.

 

[RetroGamingUK]

Haha, can you imagine the creative control freakery Nintendo will demand on the script and director..

Good!

No one wants Hollywood twats shoehorning their Californian political bullshit into this 40 year old franchise.

 

[Saber]

Damn I arrived too late to say that Tom Holland would be Link.

Ok Pedro Pascal as Link, how about that?

 

[HRK69]

Damn I arrived too late to say that Tom Holland would be Link.

Ok Pedro Pascal as Link, how about that?

 

[Hideous Snake]

Don’t think I can get excited for anything live-action anymore. One Piece was good and thats about it

 

[Bert Big Balls]

Really curious what personality they’ll give Link and who will play him.

Jamie Foxx.

 

[Fbh]

Link will be a kid. It's got to be a kids movie. No one else will take it seriously. Or do Ocarina where he's a kid and an adult.

Damn looking at shrunk and digitally deaged Tom Holland for half the movie will be awkward.

Kind of wish this was a CGI movie like the excellent Super Mario movie as that perfectly captured the essence of the video game it was based on in my opinion. Hard to imagine what a live action Zelda movie would look like with Link played by an actor. I'm expecting to be underwhelmed.

In an ideal world this would be a high budget 2D animated movie.
Imagine the world of Zelda represented with some Ghibli tier background work and attention to detail

Nintendo has the budget for it and Zelda has the brand recognition and appeal for audiences to show up.
Instead we'll get some awkward live action movie

I mean fuck hire the people that made the Oregon travel ads and given $300 million

 

[NuclearDiarrhea]

This is 100% going to have The Rock in it

He should be a Goron or a character that gets eaten by a Goron. Perfect casting imo.

 

[Hardensoul]

Nintendo Today! App is getting hit hard, can’t logon!

 

[Sooner]

Just keep Tom Holland, Chris Pratt and Jack Black out of this one, please.

 

[Hardensoul]

Too tall!

 

[Kagoshima_Luke]

Could you imagine if they made Link silent through the entire movie?

 

[Banjo64]

Hope Twinrova is in this movie

 

[Deerock71]

I kind of wish they'd go CG with this. That way we wouldn't have to try to force ourselves to accept a specific actor or actress into the mold of THIS IS LINK AND ZELDA. DEAL WITH IT. They could just make them look exactly like the video game.

 

[Melon Husk]

Live action is really ambitious. There are so many competent 2D animation studios that could get it right for far less effort.

 

[L*][*N*K]

I am going to hide in a bunker on that day because that is going to be horrible and big mistake for the franchise

 

[kruis]

Tom Holland As Link
Zendaya as Zelda
Chris Pratt as Ganon
Nicholas Cage as Tingle

If you have Tom Holland and Zendaya in a Zelda movie, then you should also have Pedro Pascal.

 

[Gojiira]

Tom Holland As Link
Zendaya as Zelda
Chris Pratt as Ganon
Nicholas Cage as Tingle

Low key Nic Cage really should be Tingle…

 

[BlackTron]

Hope Twinrova is in this movie

Who Zendaya will actually play, jokes aside.

Sorry.

 

[Ebrietas]

Damn looking at shrunk and digitally deaged Tom Holland for half the movie will be awkward.



In an ideal world this would be a high budget 2 animated movie.
Imagine the world of Zelda represented with some Ghibli tier background work and attention to detail

Nintendo has the budget for it and Zelda has the brand recognition and appeal for audiences to show up.
Instead we'll get some awkward live action movie

I mean fuck hire the people that made the Oregon travel ads and given $300 million

This is how it would be done if Nintendo had any taste and artistic vision.

 

[Andyliini]

Hey, that's on my birthday! I'll turn 40 that day. Definitely seeing this on a biggest screen possible.