Should a Zelda game be turned in to a Movie?
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I'm surprised no one has mentioned Link to the Past. With the parts in the Dark World shortened down to just saving Zelda/fighting Gannon(dorf) it could work well.
The biggest hitch for any game movie is it's execution. I feel that most game-movie adaptations have the potential to be awesome, but they have to be done well. You can't half-ass it.
As for casting Link:
The kid who was in the 2003 film Peter Pan certainly has the 'look.'
The biggest hitch for any game movie is it's execution. I feel that most game-movie adaptations have the potential to be awesome, but they have to be done well. You can't half-ass it.
As for casting Link:
The kid who was in the 2003 film Peter Pan certainly has the 'look.'
I'm not really sure whats wrong with being elitist.Billion Backs said:
Making a movie true to its roots pleases the ones who loved it. Changing it for the unwashed masses upsets those people. All the while, the unwashed masses don't know any better.
Case in point, Transformers2 matrix of leadership.
This, as a true fan knows is the matrix of leadership
http://www.tvshowsondvd.net/graphics/news3/TF_UltMatrixSet_Cover.jpg
May it always light our darkest hour.
This is not
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/jalopnik/2009/09/Matrix_Of_leadership.jpg
backward boomerang?
There is not a single goddam reason why it doesn't look like its suppose to. They should have had sam walk up onto optimus's chest, have it open the way its suppose to. Then have him place it in.
http://seibertron.com/images/toys/files/43/r_optimusprime_319.jpg
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This is precisely the reason they don't need to make it into a movie.CokeColaForTheWIn said:
Tv show? nospectrenihlus said:
Miniseries more like it
TV show ,miniseries, Movie theyd be briliant if they threw enough money at it hired some decent actors, good director, good writer, those are the pitfalls that Videos games fail to avoid
there is absolutly nothing stopping a video game movie from being good that isnt holding any other movie concepts back
go for it....whoever is going to do this and it will be done sometime in the future
Sure, why not? And where better than the very first Zelda game from the NES? Burning foliage with a candle? Swords that shoot energy blades? Graveyard desecration in search of weaponry? Severed dragon heads flying about spitting flames? Crotchety old men impoverishing Link over property damage? I can just smell the ratings!
Seriously, though, it would be interesting to see the utter bizarreness of game mechanics translated, unadulterated, to the silver screen.
Seriously, though, it would be interesting to see the utter bizarreness of game mechanics translated, unadulterated, to the silver screen.
No never the budget could go to several awesome Zelda games which are 40+ hours long and tell stories that no movie could ever do.
I did see a Trailer about two years ago on Youtube, It was low budget of course but still looked sort of beliveable as a Hyrule. Link and Zelda's ears were very funny as was Links outfit.PureChaos said:
Yet I don't know wheter this was the one that got banned by Nintendo. I did see on another Escapists Forum about the banned Zelda film. All I know was that it was a make of Ocarina of Time that was banned.
Because they universally sucked when attempted. It's a different medium and trying to translate satisfying game mechanics into plot elements is just logically unsound. The content just gets less meaningful and less interesting when you try to make it non-interactive.A-Heart-Of-Gold said:
Actually getting to interact with these environments, characters, monsters, and gadgets REALLY wasn't enough for you? Somehow a movie's superior just because it'd look more detailed? Get real. It'd cost five times as much to deliver two hours of what would almost definitely be bland, non-interactive entertainment. Just think about that. You could have an all-new iteration of Hyrule to explore yourself, or you could watch a film with someone else having a highly abbreviated adventure through it instead, with next to none of the satisfaction of actually exploring the various locales because the moviemakers would almost definitely have to rush through all of them stupendously fast. When you get down to it what you're really proposing is watching an actor in a green tunic and tights running through a series of CGI obstacle courses to save a princess, and that would just make a HORRIBLE movie.A-Heart-Of-Gold said:
You need to get real here. Zelda's 5% plot, 5% character development (read: not Link), 50% easy logic puzzles, and 40% exploration. There's no character development to speak of on Link's part--he's just kinda' there, a one-dimensional hero for the player to project themselves on. He'd make an awful protagonist in a film and half the appeal of him would just be thrown out the window the minute you hear his first line. Depending on how Hollywood dealt with him he'd either come off as bland, stupid, or both, and he'd most certainly disappoint the general Zelda-loving audience no matter what the writers decided to do with him.
Prince of Persia, meanwhile, had excellent dialogue and very explicit characterization. It gave their writers--who were the SAME WRITERS as the ones who did Sands of Time--a whole lot to work with in terms of developing the script. I haven't seen the movie yet, but I'd imagine the Prince in the movie hits all the same snarky beats as the Prince in the game--the game being a film-envy driven linear narrative experience rather than a series of living, exploration-based environments. I can't possibly stress enough how much of a different case this is than with Zelda.
Yep.A-Heart-Of-Gold said:
Not me. It'd be a horrible mistake.A-Heart-Of-Gold said:
think that's the one. the original trailer was released years ago. the film was released around September and Nintendo let it play until after Christmas when they got it banned. the April Fools one by IGN looked REALLY good. SUCH a shame it was a fakeA-Heart-Of-Gold said:
I think a problem with many video game movies is that Hollywood either tries to cram too much of the game into one movie or changes the game so much that the game is barely recognizable in the movie anymore. That's why I propose a Zelda: OoT trilogy. Not one, but three movies. I have posted this idea on a previous thread, but to repeat, here's what I envision:
Most people I speak to think it could work. I do like the idea of doing the trilogy Advent Children-style, it would look pretty cool. I think it would look cooler done in live action, but I think in general, game-to-film-ing Zelda would be more effective through animation.
Movie 1 (entitled Ocarina of Time): Young Link gathers the 3 stones, gains the Ocarina, opens up the Door of Time, movie ends with Link pulling out the Master Sword and getting knocked out by Ganondorf.
Movie 2 ([sub]cleverly[/sub] entitled Link's Awakening): Adult Link meets Sheik and begins rounding up Sages, going through the Forest, Fire and Water Temples. Movie ends with the burning of Kakariko Village and freeing of Bongo Bongo, again knocking Link out.
Movie 3 (entitled Princess of Destiny): Spirit and Shadow Temples, with one scene of going back in time to help Nabooru in Gerudo Valley. Sheik reveals herself to be Zelda and is captured by Ganondorf, Link storms Ganon's Castle and Ganon is imprisoned in the Evil Realm, Link is returned to his own time permanently.
Movie 2 ([sub]cleverly[/sub] entitled Link's Awakening): Adult Link meets Sheik and begins rounding up Sages, going through the Forest, Fire and Water Temples. Movie ends with the burning of Kakariko Village and freeing of Bongo Bongo, again knocking Link out.
Movie 3 (entitled Princess of Destiny): Spirit and Shadow Temples, with one scene of going back in time to help Nabooru in Gerudo Valley. Sheik reveals herself to be Zelda and is captured by Ganondorf, Link storms Ganon's Castle and Ganon is imprisoned in the Evil Realm, Link is returned to his own time permanently.
Most people I speak to think it could work. I do like the idea of doing the trilogy Advent Children-style, it would look pretty cool. I think it would look cooler done in live action, but I think in general, game-to-film-ing Zelda would be more effective through animation.
Just because it's possible to make a movie out of a game does not mean we should. Legend of Zelda is one of those games. I feel that a movie adaptation will just let us down.
I think it would be interesting to see but, I don't think they would be able to contain it to a single film. If one gets out they will make it into a trilogy and, as far as trilogy's go, there is almost always a sort of degradation from movie one to movie three. I think if done the right way, a good movie can be made using Zelda characters and settings and I believe it can be contained to a single, stand-alone film.
maybe Ocarina of time would make a good movie since it feels like a jumping off point for the series "Ganondorf is introduced and most customs of Hyrule are explained. I think it would be pretty good if a director stays true to the story and makes Hyrule a believable place.
I still would prefer a Metroid movie staring Scarlett Johansson as Samus.
I already have the first scene down
ship gets shot down by space pirates, lands on Zebus, shot of crying little Girl (Samus), stops crying looks up sees the silhouette of a Chozo, Gets frightened but she calms down after it offers Samus it's hand (much like the Big Daddy in the first Bioshock trailer), Samus Grabs on, Fade to Black, Giant letters read "METROID", opening credits.
I still would prefer a Metroid movie staring Scarlett Johansson as Samus.
I already have the first scene down
ship gets shot down by space pirates, lands on Zebus, shot of crying little Girl (Samus), stops crying looks up sees the silhouette of a Chozo, Gets frightened but she calms down after it offers Samus it's hand (much like the Big Daddy in the first Bioshock trailer), Samus Grabs on, Fade to Black, Giant letters read "METROID", opening credits.
This thread has good timing. I just started a new game in OoT two days ago (God I hate Jabu-Jabu...)
Anyway, it would most likely be a huge disaster. The games have great stories, but they would have to give Link dialog. Pulling all of that out of thin air just makes thinner air that leaves everyone gasping on the ground as the wretched abomination they brought forth slowly murders the memory of their child hood.
Anyway, it would most likely be a huge disaster. The games have great stories, but they would have to give Link dialog. Pulling all of that out of thin air just makes thinner air that leaves everyone gasping on the ground as the wretched abomination they brought forth slowly murders the memory of their child hood.
No. Have you seen the Zelda cartoon? If you can watch that and still be able to tell me that a Zelda movie is a good idea, then I'll listen to you.