2023-05-28 16:35:00
Despite the catastrophic film Marioa film adaptation of the cult video games The Legend of Zelda might have emerged.
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The release of the ultra-awaited The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom coincides with the Nintendo phenomenon Super Mario Bros., the Moviesa real tidal wave in 2023. The box office of the animated film directed by Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic (1.2 billion at the global box office) makes some players hope for future adaptations of other big hits from the Japanese firm .
But it’s also an opportunity to remember why she turned away from Hollywood sirens in the first place, talking regarding the film Zelda which might have appeared.
dream of a zelda movie
Actually, the idea of a film The Legend of Zelda is regularly debated, on the web and elsewhere, for obvious reasons. Many players, simple enthusiasts or audiovisual professionals, have reclaimed the universe, from the feature film (!) broke The Hero of Time to newer productions like animated comedy Racing for Rupeespassing through the very serious live action The Blood Moon. Without forgetting the fake trailerIGNan April Fool’s joke from 2008.
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On the other hand, hypothetical official adaptation projects have never been revealed by Nintendo itself, and that is of course because of the movie Super Mario Bros. In 1993, the nightmarish reinterpretation of the most famous video game on the planet flopped astronomically (not even 40 million at the box office, for a budget close to 50 million), and drew the wrath and/or ridicule from the press and spectators. A sacred vaccine for the firmwhich subsequently never risked the reputation of its licenses, until its partnership with Illumination (Pokemon not being entirely one of its properties).
A few projects – sometimes crazy – have been considered, then abandoned because of Nintendo. The most famous is the Metroid by John Woo, hampered by the demands and doubts (with respect to Samus’ origins, among others) of the scalded company, then completely buried.
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But the director of Foolproof is not the only artist to have embarked on the race with the hope of having his approval. This is also the case of Imagi Animation studios, a production company created in Hong Kong at the very beginning of the 2000s and which began with the series centrix.
In 2007, she was talked regarding for an animated film Ninja Turtle entitled TMNT. It was in the wake of her release that she took it into her head to breathe his gently dark approach to the universe of Zelda.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2007
She then concocted a video pitch simply named “Link“, supervised, shot and edited by animator Adam Holmes. Pitch which ended up on the web in the middle of the 2010s, taken from a portfolio. A combative Zelda is saved there from a band of monsters by Link, then lands a BCBG Ganondorf. All in an atmosphere that evokes more the corrupted Hyrule of Twilght Princess que le cel-shading de The Wind Waker.
Submitted to the Japanese firm, it was most likely rejected and there is a chance that case law Super Mario Bros played a role in the process. On the other hand, Imagi did not have the opportunity to relaunch them excessively, since the violent belly of their Astro Boy released in 2009 (41 million dollars at the worldwide box office for an impressive budget of 65 million) had the skin of the company.
A few minutes of film remain and serious doubts regarding the adaptability of The Legend of Zelda in cinema, whether live action or animation.
As for our test of Tears of the Kingdom, it pays homage to its development by dint of being pushed back. The author of these lines being determined to explore each hectare of Hyrule, it will be necessary to wait a little. Who knows, maybe a movie will be officially announced by then.
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