Nintendo is adapting another major franchise into a film.

Nintendo is adapting another major franchise into a film.

  • Wussy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    1 year ago

    From the director of Maze Runner, the screenwriter of The Rise of Skywalker and the producer of Mobius. I don’t see what could possibly go wrong with this movie.

    • Dandroid@dandroid.appEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      I thought the Mario movie had a 10/10 soundtrack, so if they can just do the same thing but for Zelda music, I will be thrilled.

  • ADHDefy@kbin.social
    143·
    1 year ago

    I was hyped until I saw that Avi “Compulsively Ruins Spider-Man Movies” Arad is producing. 😬

    EDIT: Oh and it’s Sony. And the director choice… eeeeeeeehhh. Here’s hoping for a pleasant surprise, I guess?

      • ADHDefy@kbin.social
        7·
        1 year ago

        That’s fair. He also did the first couple Raimi Spider-Man flicks and the '97 X-Men cartoon. So he has worked on some solid projects. But looking through his IMDB credits is mostly not inspiring. He’s produced most of the worst superhero movies ever made and few of the best. lol

  • JoshuaSlowpoke777@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    Arguably, whether this turns out decent or atrocious may depend, in part, on whether it’s a straight adaptation of the games (removes sensory elements that games and film don’t have in common, causing serious issues); or if it’s something that would fit better in a film, albeit taking place in Hyrule.

    It may also depend on whether portions of the production team actively dislike the source material (cough cough Netflix Witcher cough cough)

  • Narann@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    Zelda has a such potential to fail on a full feature that I don’t keep my expectation that high.

    Silent Hill is still the only movie I consider good, because the original medium had a huge amount of content that match full feature requirement.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      1 year ago

      I’m glad for the latest Mario movie entirely because of Jack Black as Bowser.

      The Resident Evil films were pretty good, too. The Doom movie was at least as much fun as your standard B-movie shoot’em’up. Uncharted and the first Tomb Raider could have stood in for any Mummy and was head and shoulders above the last two Indiana films. The Street Fighter and Mortal Combat movies were middle-of-the-road genre films.

      I don’t think Zelda has to fail on its face. But I think there’s a lot of places where the screenwriters can go wrong. Translating the dungeons in a Zelda game to the big screen will be difficult in a way a Tomb Raider or Far Cry aren’t. And working side-characters into a game that’s very explicitly a solo adventure will be hard.

      I think they’d have had an easier time with Dragon Quest. I’m very confident they could make a good Metroid movie, since that’s just reskinning Aliens 2. But there are definitely examples of game-to-movie films working, so long as they fit with a traditional Hollywood script. Zelda just doesn’t do that well.

  • kakes@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    This can go one of two very different ways.

    I’m personally hoping for a super dark, gritty movie that I know will never ever happen.

    • pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I’m pretty sick of the 90s+ edgification of old IPs, but even I would be very interested to see the attempt.

      Although a lot of modern Zelda fans are kids, so they need to appeal to them first, with all their latent purchasing power 🤩 just about to start getting jobs and buying their own consoles

  • pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    If they keep the story small enough, it could work. If they try to cram the last 3 decades or lore and plot and characters into 1 movie, it’ll just fall apart