This news item has been a long time coming, in terms of fan wishes, and nobody thought it would be revealed out of nowhere on a Tuesday afternoon, but that’s Nintendo for you. The company has announced they’ve begun plans for a big-budget theatrical motion picture based around The Legend Of Zelda.
Where it gets REALLY interesting is who Nintendo is partnering with to do it. They’ve handed distribution rights to Sony Pictures Entertainment, as in the same outfit that makes the Playstation line of consoles. This is the first time Nintendo and Sony have worked together on something since….well, that time Sony was supposed to make the SNES CD attachment and Nintendo changed their minds behind their backs, enraging Sony enough to enter the console market on their own and beat Nintendo at their own game. I guess that was a long time ago but it’s still surprising.
Directing is Wes Ball, who previously directed the Maze Runner trilogy and whose next film is Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. There doesn’t appear to be a script writer at this time. Sitting in the producers’ chairs will be Shigeru Miyamoto (of course) and Avi Arad. If you’re trying to think of where you saw that second name, Arad is the guy who usually handles Sony’s Spider-Man films. His resume with video game based movies is a little less impressive (there’s that Uncharted movie everyone forgot, and nothing else), but Miyamoto wouldn’t let the Zelda brand be attached to garbage.
Some of us (myself included) have been waiting for this announcement for decades! Let’s hope they don’t fumble it up. The live-action Zelda movie currently has no release window.
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