{"id":20086,"date":"2023-11-08T16:11:28","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T21:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=20086"},"modified":"2023-11-08T16:22:27","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T21:22:27","slug":"legend-of-zelda-video-game-to-become-a-live-action-movie-says-nintendo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=20086","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Legend of Zelda&#8217; Video Game To Become a Live-Action Movie, Says Nintendo"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><br \/>Nintendo has revealed its plans to create a live-action movie based on its popular <em>Legend of Zelda<\/em> video game. Wes Ball, who had directed &#8220;<em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?s=the+maze+runner\">The Maze Runner<\/a>,&#8221;<\/strong><\/em> will be helming the upcoming film, to be distributed by Sony Pictures Entertainment, which will be co-financing the project with Nintendo, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2023\/11\/legend-of-zelda-movie-wes-ball-1235596216\/\">Deadline<\/a>.\u00a0<br \/><br \/>Although a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?s=Legend+of+Zelda\">The Legend of Zelda<\/a><em><strong>&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>movie has been rumored for years, this is the first concrete evidence that the project will soon be getting underway. Some months back, it had been speculated that the adaptation would be made by Universal or Illumination. <br \/><br \/>It\u2019s been reported that the script will be penned by Derek Connolly, whose writing credits include<em><strong>\u00a0&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?s=Jurassic+World\">Jurassic World<\/a><\/strong><\/em>.&#8221; At this point, few details are known about the proposed adaptation, such as whether Connolly would be basing his screenplay on an existing Zelda story, like <em>Breath of the Wild<\/em> or <em>Tears of the Kingdom<\/em>, or whether he would be creating an entirely original one.<br \/><br \/>The film is to be produced by Nintendo\u2019s Shigeru Miyamoto with Avi Arad, the chair of Arad Productions, who had earlier been the founder and CEO of Marvel Studios. Arad\u2019s track record as a producer includes &#8220;<em><strong>Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,&#8221; &#8220;Into the Spider-Verse,&#8221; &#8220;No Way Home,&#8221; &#8220;Far From Home<\/strong><\/em>,&#8221; and &#8220;<em><strong>Homecoming<\/strong><\/em>,&#8221; as well as the &#8220;<em><strong>Iron Man&#8221;<\/strong><\/em> and &#8220;<em><strong>X-Men&#8221;<\/strong><\/em> movies. <br \/><br \/>In a posting on X (formerly Twitter) this week, Miyamoto wrote: \u201cI have been working on the live-action film of &#8220;<em><strong>The Legend of Zelda&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>for many years now. We have now officially started the development of the film with Nintendo itself heavily involved in the production. It will take time until its completion, but I hope you look forward to seeing it.\u201d<br \/><br \/>In the original Zelda video game, released by Nintendo in 1986, the game\u2019s hero, Link, must defeat the monster Ganon in his efforts to rescue Zelda, the Princess of Hyrule. More than a score of updated versions have appeared since 1986, including <em>Tears of the Kingdom<\/em>, the most recent one, in May of 2023.<br \/><br \/>Shigeru Miyamoto has created a numer of iconic video games over the years, including &#8220;<em><strong>Donkey Kong&#8221;<\/strong><\/em> and &#8220;<em><strong>Mario Bros<\/strong><\/em>.&#8221; He was also one of the producers of the recent blockbuster hit, the &#8220;<em><strong>Super Mario Bros<\/strong><\/em><strong>.&#8221;<\/strong> movie.<br \/><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/author\/edward-moran\/\">Check out more of Edward&#8217;s articles<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo has revealed its plans to create a live-action movie based on its popular Legend of Zelda video game. Wes Ball, who had directed &#8220;The Maze Runner,&#8221; will be helming the upcoming film, to be distributed by Sony Pictures Entertainment, which will be co-financing the project with Nintendo, according to Deadline.\u00a0 Although a &#8220;The Legend&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[7121,5131,5137,464,18867,16270,302,11354],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&#039;The Legend of Zelda&#039; Video Game To Become a Live-Action Movie, Says Nintendo | Cinema Daily US<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Nintendo announced plans to turn Shigeru Miyamoto&#039;s &#039;Legend of Zelda&#039; video game into a live-action film.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=20086\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"&#039;The Legend of Zelda&#039; Video Game To Become a Live-Action Movie, Says Nintendo | Cinema Daily US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Nintendo announced plans to turn Shigeru Miyamoto&#039;s &#039;Legend of Zelda&#039; video game into a live-action film.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=20086\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Cinema Daily US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-11-08T21:11:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-11-08T21:22:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/The-legend-of-the-Zelda.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1834\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1016\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Edward Moran\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Edward Moran\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=20086\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=20086\",\"name\":\"'The Legend of Zelda' Video Game To Become a Live-Action Movie, Says Nintendo | Cinema Daily US\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=20086#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=20086#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/The-legend-of-the-Zelda.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-11-08T21:11:28+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-11-08T21:22:27+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/#\/schema\/person\/8bf0a19223aa026749c276918426a5bc\"},\"description\":\"Nintendo announced plans to turn Shigeru Miyamoto's 'Legend of Zelda' video game into a live-action film.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=20086#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=20086\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=20086#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/The-legend-of-the-Zelda.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/The-legend-of-the-Zelda.jpg\",\"width\":1834,\"height\":1016,\"caption\":\"The Legend of Zelda, video game\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=20086#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"&#8216;The Legend of Zelda&#8217; Video Game To Become a Live-Action Movie, Says Nintendo\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/\",\"name\":\"Cinema Daily US\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/#\/schema\/person\/8bf0a19223aa026749c276918426a5bc\",\"name\":\"Edward Moran\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Edward-Moran-150x150.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Edward-Moran-150x150.jpg\",\"caption\":\"Edward Moran\"},\"description\":\"Edward Moran began his journalistic career many decades ago as a theater and cinema reviewer for Show Business and the New York Theater Review. More recently he contributed film reviews to hosokinema.com and Movie Sleuth. His writings have appeared in publications as diverse as the Times Literary Supplement, Publishers Weekly, the Paris Review, and the Massachusetts Review. Moran also edited a memoir by Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Christine Choy. He served as literary advisor to her film Hyam Plutzik: American Poet, which was the keynote film in the American Perspectives series at the 2007 Zebra Poetry Film Festival in Berlin.\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.cinemadailyus.com\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?author=3\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"'The Legend of Zelda' Video Game To Become a Live-Action Movie, Says Nintendo | Cinema Daily US","description":"Nintendo announced plans to turn Shigeru Miyamoto's 'Legend of Zelda' video game into a live-action film.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=20086","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"'The Legend of Zelda' Video Game To Become a Live-Action Movie, Says Nintendo | Cinema Daily US","og_description":"Nintendo announced plans to turn Shigeru Miyamoto's 'Legend of Zelda' video game into a live-action film.","og_url":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=20086","og_site_name":"Cinema Daily US","article_published_time":"2023-11-08T21:11:28+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-11-08T21:22:27+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1834,"height":1016,"url":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/The-legend-of-the-Zelda.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Edward Moran","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Edward Moran","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=20086","url":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=20086","name":"'The Legend of Zelda' Video Game To Become a Live-Action Movie, Says Nintendo | Cinema Daily US","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=20086#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=20086#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/The-legend-of-the-Zelda.jpg","datePublished":"2023-11-08T21:11:28+00:00","dateModified":"2023-11-08T21:22:27+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/#\/schema\/person\/8bf0a19223aa026749c276918426a5bc"},"description":"Nintendo announced plans to turn Shigeru Miyamoto's 'Legend of Zelda' video game into a live-action film.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=20086#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=20086"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=20086#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/The-legend-of-the-Zelda.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/The-legend-of-the-Zelda.jpg","width":1834,"height":1016,"caption":"The Legend of Zelda, video game"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=20086#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"&#8216;The Legend of Zelda&#8217; Video Game To Become a Live-Action Movie, Says Nintendo"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/","name":"Cinema Daily US","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/#\/schema\/person\/8bf0a19223aa026749c276918426a5bc","name":"Edward Moran","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Edward-Moran-150x150.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Edward-Moran-150x150.jpg","caption":"Edward Moran"},"description":"Edward Moran began his journalistic career many decades ago as a theater and cinema reviewer for Show Business and the New York Theater Review. More recently he contributed film reviews to hosokinema.com and Movie Sleuth. His writings have appeared in publications as diverse as the Times Literary Supplement, Publishers Weekly, the Paris Review, and the Massachusetts Review. Moran also edited a memoir by Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Christine Choy. He served as literary advisor to her film Hyam Plutzik: American Poet, which was the keynote film in the American Perspectives series at the 2007 Zebra Poetry Film Festival in Berlin.","sameAs":["https:\/\/www.cinemadailyus.com"],"url":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?author=3"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20086"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}