Legend of Zelda film ‘in the works’ with huge Hollywood star ‘in talks’ for Link

Earlier this 12 months, The Super Mario Bros Movie stormed the worldwide field workplace taking up $1.3 billion on a $100 million funds.

Until very lately the blockbuster, co-produced by Nintendo and Universal’s Illumination, was the most important film of 2023 earlier than Barbie surpassed it.

Given its large success, little doubt sequels and spin-offs might be introduced, however what in regards to the probability of adapting different much-loved Nintendo video video games?

The Japanese firm’s different main franchise is The Legend of Zelda, a excessive fantasy swords and sorcery journey, which has by no means had a movie model.

However, a number of experiences are claiming that one is now very a lot within the works on the Hollywood studio.

Respected scooper MyTimeToShineHello tweeted: “Universal developing a live-action Legend of Zelda movie.”

Given the latest success of Netflix’s live-action adaptation of Japanese manga and anime One Piece, it’s doable that the same stylings of Zelda might work in that format too.

Interestingly, Giant Freakin’ Robot have beforehand scooped {that a} Zelda film is within the works at Illumination, however an animated one with an enormous Hollywood star.

The outlet previously reported that Henry Cavill was in talks to voice Link in a CG-animated Legend of Zelda film, very like Chris Pratt as Mario.

However, it’s doable that Universal at the moment are going with live-action, which could rule out Cavill given he’s a lot older and muscular than the younger and thin Link.

Hopefully, we’ll get the perfect of each worlds and have a live-action and animated tackle Zelda. But if it was only one, our greatest guess can be a CG-animated one given the success of Super Mario.