• @gibmiser
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      I hope they go that route

      • I mentioned this in another thread about this: How Nintendo has characters in game refer to Link and how Link is portrayed in media outside the games, it seems very much like the personality of that cartoon version is the canon personality of Link.

  • @Wodge
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    558 months ago

    Chris Pratt as Gannondorf, Tom Holland as Link, and Danny DeVito as Navi. It’ll be alright.

    • @SzethFriendOfNimi
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      428 months ago

      Jack Black as Ganon singing about his love for Zelda

      • @mrspaz
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        “Hey, listen, motherfucker!”

    • Neato
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      Chris Pratt as fired. I do like Tom Holland as link though.

      Danny DeVito has to be pig Ganon.

    • @[email protected]
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      38 months ago

      Make it pg13 and that’s a winner.

      We need a scene where DeVito, as Navi, sings about the toll that trolls charge.

  • @nul9o9
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    538 months ago

    Why not a studio Ghibli collab ಠ⁠︵⁠ಠ

  • @DarkMessiah
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    Is… is Link going to be a voiced role?

    • @kromem
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      108 months ago

      Starring Timothy Chalamet as Link

    • @[email protected]
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      48 months ago

      Link talks. The fan theory that he’s mute is unsupportable. Too many instances of him conveying complex information to people he just met (and who wouldn’t know his gesture language). You can try to explain it away, but it will quickly get more complicated than assuming he talks.

      • @[email protected]
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        17 months ago

        Hear me out, sign language

        Those exchanges usually involve link gesturing with his hands when he’s explicitly communicating with someone else

        • @[email protected]
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          Is this sign language universally known in Hyrule? Why don’t we see anyone else using it?

          That seems a bigger leap than just assuming he talks.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      288 months ago

      Not only that, but also the producer who forced Sam Raimi to include Venom in Spider-Man 3, and who is responsible for all those Sony/Marvel movies (including Morbius).

      • hrimfaxi_work
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        38 months ago

        Maybe it’ll be so absurdly terrible that it comes all the way back around to incredible?

      • Darkwatch00
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        28 months ago

        Isnt he just the producer for that and all the spider man movies including spiderverses?

      • @PopOfAfrica
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        Spider-Man 3 is the best Spider-Man movie and I’m tired of pretending it’s not.

    • @[email protected]
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      108 months ago

      who has produced many mega hit films.

      Mega. Hit. Films. Who cares that he has a history of ignoring source material, angering fans, ruining IP? They’re mega hits.

    • @[email protected]
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      38 months ago

      At first I confused Chris Ball and Uwe Boll. So when I realized that Chris Ball was the dude who did Maze Runner, rather than the dude responsible for almost every bad video game adaptation that’s ever been made, I felt a bit relieved. I’m just going to let that feeling carry me for a bit and hope for the best.

    • @MimicJar
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      I said the exact same thing when reading about Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes earlier today.

      I don’t know the director, but it seems like he’s got a visual sense of what’s needed. Visually I think the first Maze Runner was well done (didn’t see 2 & 3) and looking at the trailer for Planet of the Apes I think it matches the films that came before it.

      I am cautiously optimistic that he can take an idea and put it to screen.

      This is going to a difficult film to put together, but I expect when it’s all done the director isn’t going to be the issue. The issue is going to be putting together a good story and having a good story to tell.

      Mario games are all about whimsy and spectacle. Mario 1 has you jump incredible heights and throw fireballs. Mario 2 has you in a dream world with potions. Mario 3 has you travel between unique worlds. Mario World has dinosaurs and secret paths. I could go on, but you get the idea and the movie did an excellent job.

      Hypothetically if we had a Metroid movie it would have to be about isolation. Not complete isolation, but isolation with a sense of being watched or followed, or being in over your head.

      But, we’re talking about Zelda. What makes a Zelda game and in turn a movie a Zelda movie? I think it’s a sense of exploration. It’s an adventure. Think Star Wars, think Indiana Jones, that’s the kind of movie this needs to be.

      What if they adapted Link’s Awakening? An established hero, lost at sea, slowly uncovering secrets of the island. That could work. I don’t think they should adapt that story but that’s the sort of story they need to tell. A fairy boy with a greater purpose. A boy who seeks out his missing father in a storm. A boy trying to rescue his kidnapped sister.

      I think this could work, but it won’t be easy.

  • @kromem
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    This is going to be a disaster.

    • @[email protected]
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      Yeah. My first thought was who the fuck would want to play Link? Then I imagined Tom Holland as Link. This is going to be so bad. This is Masters of the Universe for a new generation.

      • @[email protected]
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        I didn’t see live action and I’m like why would Tom Holland need to do the voice? Yeah … I thought they were doing well with the Mario Movie …

      • @Eatsuki
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        This is going to be so bad. This is Masters of the Universe for a new generation.

        You’ve contradicted yourself. MotU with Dolph Lundgren was amazing. Was it super accurate to the show, nah, but it was a cool story and Dolph Lundgren and Frank Langella made it a blast.

    • @dustyData
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      I already have metric tons of popcorn ready. I’m gonna watch every minute of this trainwreck.

  • @Lanusensei87
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    268 months ago

    “Gee, it sure is BORING around here!”

    • @Rooty
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      Thank you, unknown Russian animation studio, for being the progenitor of a million memes.

  • @lapommedeterre
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    198 months ago

    Fingers crossed for Owen Wilson to be Link

  • @The_Cleanup_Batter
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    Uhhh… I’m not so certain that this is something that will go over well as a live action movie. ESPECIALLY if they plan on having Link appear in it. Link is a silent protagonist primarily because it allows the player to easily project themselves into the position of the character. Meaning that every individual fan has their own specific idea of how link “should be.” Any deviation from that and… Well we know how gamers can be. If you don’t put Link in it and focus on side characters in a plot that happens in the Legend of Zelda setting, you have a chance for something more successful as a spin-off. You’ll still have people on the side shouting “Why didn’t they put link in it?” But if the movie is written and produced well, then isn’t much of an issue.

    But the Mario movie was a success so I’m not overly worried about it and I’m hopeful.

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        Does he actually say it that much in that series? My goodness.

    • @[email protected]
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      They should just piss everyone off universally and give him like a Gilbert Gottfried voice.

    • @SzethFriendOfNimi
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      Only way I can see it working is in the princess bride style. That way we understand it’s the narrator telling the story and so the tone/voice not matching makes sense

      • @[email protected]
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        narrator telling the story

        Well it is the Legend of Zelda, so I could see that working really well

        • flicker
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          If the movie opens with a fairy declaring, “Hey! Listen!” I will laugh until I throw up.

    • @[email protected]
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      lol could they really get away with making a Zelda movie without Link??

      I guess I could see it. Like maybe it’s literally a “legend” of Zelda, where the hero is a figure of myth and the story actually centers around other characters many years later. Sorta like Wind Waker, I’m realizing as I’m writing this. Actually, using the Wind Waker trope of making the main character a reincarnation of Link might give them the wiggle room to create a Link with some unique personality.

    • Neato
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      Link doesn’t really have a character. He’s just a sword arm.

  • @[email protected]
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    168 months ago

    Arad productions has produced fine films such as venom and the uncharted movie. Along with the spider verse movies. What a range.

    Also, Sony pictures is distributing the film, funnily enough, lol.

    • @[email protected]
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      I had a hard enough time just clicking this link and remaining optimistic that this project wouldn’t be embarrassing and uh, this just killed that feeling. Toss it in the video game movie pile along with Prince of Persia and Assassin’s Creed…

  • @Fridgeratr
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    I can’t think of a single way this will not suck. I was pleasantly surprised by the Mario movie but that was animated

  • @iamtrashman1312
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    I’m calling it now: as soon as some casting is announced or stills shown there’s going to be a massive shriek from chuds over the 1-2 PoC actors portraying Hylians and they’ll pretend they’re actually just mad because lore says Hylians are white or some bullshit

  • @[email protected]
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    They are only teasing. We won’t hear anything for a couple years and then it will re-emerge as an animated series for little kids.