So you may find yourself asking, "Okay, then, so how should they make a Zelda movie?" Hey, look, I'm just an entertainment journalist. In the best Zelda games, the story can get downright somber. It's about uncovering a cleverly concealed secret passage in a dark corner of a castle or stumbling upon a large cave filled with hidden riches. Like many of that studio's anime films, Zelda is about adventure, magic, and the joy of discovery. In a perfect world, Zelda should have more of a Studio Ghibli vibe. The series does occasionally get weird (ask your Zelda-playing friends about Tingle) but, at its best, it carries a quiet and introspective tone. This is decidedly not the case with The Legend of Zelda. The world where Mario lives has always been presented as a wacky "anything goes" type of universe, full of colorful (if occasionally nonsensical) creatures and increasingly bizarre "power ups." (You want Mario in a cat costume? You got it!) It's not something Illumination could really screw up by stuffing it with self-referential jokes and needle drops because the Mario universe, which has featured everything from haunted houses to physics-defying roller coasters to giant sentient bullets, is capable of absorbing almost any ridiculous idea while still feeling like Mario. The simple truth is that the Zelda series (which just released its 19th installment, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, for the Nintendo Switch) is a very different beast from Mario. Meanwhile, reports broke this week that Universal and Illumination are very much interested in continuing their relationship with Nintendo and are eyeing Zelda as their next big get.īut just because that makes business sense doesn't necessarily mean it would make creative sense. Given that eight years have passed since then (not to mention Mario's big-screen success and Netflix's latest troubles), it seems unlikely that the project is still on the drawing board.
The last anyone heard about a potential Zelda project was way back in 2015 when The Washington Journal reported that a live-action series was in the works at Netflix.
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