Planning a trilogy already would be a rather odd choice for a company as risk-averse as Nintendo. I mean, how many live action video game adaptations have been super successful? And how many of those starred an elf in a green tunic and funny hat?
And what would you even do with a trilogy anyway? There isn't that much source material like LOTR or Dune that you need multiple movies to adequately cover an adaptation. Every game's plot is super thin already. What would be the story beat for each trilogy? It's hard to imagine. It's even more hard to imagine given that, if Nintendo/Sony Pictures were already looking into the future, the most logical plot in Zelda lore to adapt for a movie is the Imprisoning War, and that has a natural sequel hook already (it's not called the Killing Ganon War, after all). So I could totally see them setting it up with a sequel in mind to hit the ground running if the movie is successful, but planning a trilogy already? Isn't that risky?
And what would you even do with a trilogy anyway? There isn't that much source material like LOTR or Dune that you need multiple movies to adequately cover an adaptation. Every game's plot is super thin already. What would be the story beat for each trilogy? It's hard to imagine. It's even more hard to imagine given that, if Nintendo/Sony Pictures were already looking into the future, the most logical plot in Zelda lore to adapt for a movie is the Imprisoning War, and that has a natural sequel hook already (it's not called the Killing Ganon War, after all). So I could totally see them setting it up with a sequel in mind to hit the ground running if the movie is successful, but planning a trilogy already? Isn't that risky?
