Zelda as a Movie

[Edam]

I remember searching around for rumours and or truths to it, and stumbled upon a forum with people making insane suggestions like that kid from home improvement or leonardo dicaprio as Link!

I was suprised to not see this topic up yet.

I have no idea who would amke a good Link, but definetley not H.I kid or Leo.

[webber]

I think that Leonardo Dicaprio would make a good Link!!

edit: oh

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[Alicia]

I agree about Metal Gear Solid. I was addicted to just watching my brother play that game. Seriously, he'd play for hours and I'd just lay on the ground in his room and watch. Its story was so damn interesting.

I think one of the Boondock Saints "twins" should play Link. That'd be so hot. They're probably too old though. Meh.
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[Reilysclone]

Unless it's animated, I don't see any reason in doing a Zelda movie.
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[Mike]

This was mentioned as part of a video game movie thread in the old forum. So it has been discussed.

The only way I can see a Zelda movie succeeding is if Nintendo was Breakfast Serious about their desire to start a film division & wrote it themselves. I'd cry at the thought of what Uwe would do to it. And Hollywood just can't fucking cast anymore. They're making a Jetsons movie with fucking Steve Martin, Diane Lane (the only half reasonable choice), Lindsay goddamn Lohan & the kid from Jerry Maguire. I'm assuming Martin & Lohan are going to switch hairstyles during filming.

I'd prefer a Zelda movie with real actors in the main roles, rather than have the whole thing be computer-generated. Link should really be given minimal lines... he doesn't have to fucking be silent, but there are skilled child actors who can work with their facial expressions & body languages, because they have insane parents who force them to succeed. An unknown would be awesome. Everybody I know recommends Orlando Bloom because Legolias Cobain??!?!!? No thank you. Too old.

And fuck this Joe Morriss kid who's animating his own fan trilogy. He can draw & he can animate, but the pieces of script I've seen him write look like fucking Black Cauldron-era Disney shit.
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[Greg]

You do realize that by posting here, I will never be allowed to go outside again.

A Zelda film would be best if it was part of the Zelda continuety instead of a film adaptation of the game. Something that fits between two games that helps explain some of the history would be the most fitting. Like something between Wind Waker and Link to the Past, with whole new Link and Zelda characters (we get a new set of those every other game or so). This leaves a lot of room for a story, since their is no guidelines film makers would be forced to follow, like "YOU HAVE TO FIGHT GANON AT THIS POINT IN THE FILM" or "YOU NEED TO SUM UP EIGHT DUNGEONS IN SEVENTY MINUTES."

Like like.
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[Mike]

[Kirbyoto]

The problem with this is that if you haven't played all the games, you won't get it. It's the same problem as with Advent Children, which is why AC isn't being released in theaters.

That said, if they DID do like AC and just release it on DVD so that people who wanted to see it could do so without a bunch of confused theater patrons wondering what's going on, then that could be great.

I agree with the idea that Zelda probably should be CGed. I think Zelda would be best as anime. And I don't mean crappy tv-show levels of animation, I mean real theatrical Hayao Miyazaki levels of animation.
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[Bill]

Zelda is not so horribly complex that a story fleshing out the continuity would confuse new people. Advent Children would've had to explain Cloud and Sephiroth's relationship, the whole Jenova thing, the Sephiroth clones, the Reunion, etc. Zelda has to explain "this guy's Link and he hits stuff with a sword and saves the princess."

[Bismark]

Doing a story as a semi-standalone to the series would work okay. Not a departure from any of the stories, but maybe an amalgamation of a lot of them, almost like a greatest hits album. That would offer the writer the most amount of flexibility in telling a decent (and coherent) story, but still plenty of ways to please the fans.
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[Edam]

I think it's a link to the past that I really liked...you can hit me for not knowing..the SNES one. I think the story in that was great along with the side plots: the son that turned to wood, etc. Though, I doubt it's got enough depth for a feature length.

I think by the looks of the twilight princess (a game I would buy just so I could watch someone else play) they could easily release a movie along the same story line, and it would be a great way to promote vice-versa.

Hey what about That Killian guy? sure he's not a kid actor, I just mean if they went with an older Link.

[B]

Zelda was already a movie.

[Greg]

Yes, but Legend sucked, so it don't count.
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[Mike]

GANNON-BANNED


Also, re:

[Kirbyoto]

Not coherently, they haven't. The amount of fan-writing needed to link (har!) them all together is kinda ridiculous.
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[Mike]

This is true, & I hate that, but the important point is that a Zelda film script would do best to be its own identity among the "timeline."
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[Edam]

http://www.zeldauniverse.net/content/view/52/58/

apparently this guy has his shit together that alot of the more diehard fans approve of. I saw a picture (I hope) of a story board with a bit a dialogue and it seems pretty good. Not all muscle action or cheese. A perfect balance for the guys and gals.

[Mike]

The animation looks ok. The script does not. Fuck Joe Morriss. B & I could write a better Zelda movie than the shit I read.




NOTE: B & I will not be writing a Zelda movie.
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