Sony Will Help Fund and Distribute a Live-Action The Legend of Zelda Film

That's actually a pretty cool collaboration.

Although my expectations for this are NOT high. Why live action?

It is almost guaranteed to be a hit so it would be stupid not to be involved! And technically it’s Sony and not PlayStation, I guess?

If it’s funded by Sony Productions would that mean it will be available on the PS5’s movie service? If so than that would be nutty.

@NinjaSixx if they can make a movie from Mario, they can do one for Zelda.

Why not? Sony Pictures and PlayStation are different divisions. There's no drama here PS, I read it correctly 🤷‍♂️😊

Not surprised, sony was part of the biggest movie in Japan history why wouldn't sony or nintendo use each other to make lots of money.

Does this mean we will see zelda on ps,no....ok then 😂

"Well excuuuuuuuuse me princess!"

@Nei technically the beef was sony-nintendo and ps's the child of that relationship lol. But money is money and there's lots of money there even if it's bad and they know it

Closest thing to Zelda on PlayStation that Sony will ever get! 😅

But in all seriousness, the amount of “crossover” work that Sony as a company has had with Nintendo and Microsoft is more than people may think. That’s what happens when you own movie studios, music studios, and produce electronics components.

Time to start the rumor that Nintendo is merging with Sony lol

He is waiting the call:

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Sounds awful. Can't envision how a live action Zelda isn't cringe. Would have loved to have seen Studio Ghibli handle something like this.

Remember Sony Imagesoft or the Sony sound chip during the SNES period no well not like the companies and whatever department you want to connect it to hasn't before of oh oh PS and Nintendo.................. because sure ok their a company that can do it with their equipment/talent but the scripts, the direction and more that's what's to worry about I think.

Live action hmm not sure depends how they handle it. Zelda games have lore and each game is different just like Final Fantasy has different characters/1, 2, even 3 games with them then move on even if Link is different each games.

So is Ganon in his many interpretations (or getting other villains in different games), Tetra/Zelda/Sheik and such. Depends the angle. They could go BOTW/TOTK or they could go another ones or different eras dealing with a threat in all eras maybe?

Animation would have been better I mean each game has an interesting artstyle so live action for the ads/plays sure but a movie. Hmm. Also the actors and script hmm..... I don't know.

Then again Sony Imagesoft (remember on the SNES games published by them?), Sony Pictures and more are different companies.

PlayStation Productions probably would do a good job but they have their work on other things likely.

Then again the new Core platform exists now so it may appear there compared to PS Vue/their movies service before being their what 3rd attempt now?

So we'll finally get to see that Nintendo PlayStation collaboration console become a reality.
Remember this day guys, this is the end of Xbox. 😅👍

@riceNpea The only one who makes a issue out of this is you. 😆

I think post Hiroshi Yamauchi and nowadays, Sony and Nintendo see themselves are part of and not rivals in the games industry. There is plenty of room for the two companies to coexist. They compliment each other.
The attitude in the 90s was, kill or be killed.

I'm genuinely interested in this. A live action Zelda, if done right, can be a really good movie.

Wouldn't be the first time these two have tried to collaborate

@GymratAmarillo fast forward to Nintendo sneakily announcing they chose to produce the movie with Paramount instead after Sony already confirmed its involvement 🤪

Link, he come to town, come to SAAAVE the Princess Zelda. Ganon took her away, now the children don't play, but they will when Link saves the day. Hallelujah!!!

If there was ever a time to use a weird old Internet rumour/shared misinformation phenomenon, it is now! Simply have Serj Tankian actually record the theme tune for the Zelda movie, release it via Colombia records, and that will be a satisfying Easter egg for all, and also make a load of money and blur the lines of reality 😁

@Korgon Ha! Classic! And don’t forget what they did to Simon Belmont lol.

I think it’s fantastic that the two greatest gaming companies are coming together for this.
It has made me smile, be it a success or not there is something about the collaboration that’s nice.

Sony and Nintendo working together 😁, great to see and hopefully just the beginning

Link is supposed to be a silent protagonist though

@Sequel absolutely agree. The new mario movie worked, because it was fun and animated. Ghibli would be amazing, but I doubt they take jobs like that. I could imagine studio ponoc doing well or getting makoto shinkai or mamoru hosada involved.

@Ultrasmiles link actually speaks. Aside from the many “hyahhh”, he got many dialogue interactions in games like Skyward Sword. It’s just that we haven’t heard him speak because of Aonuma and Miyamoto

The director of The Maze Runner, the producer of Morbius, and the writer of Jurassic World.

This is gonna be so bad

Sony were actually going to be the guys who made the Sonic The Hedgehog movies before production hell basically made them discard the plans. Probably wouldn't have been much different, just a different guy cutting the cheques. Anyway, unlike what the guys over at PureXbox think, Sony does play well with others. Take for example, there are very few dedicated video streaming apps on the Nintendo Switch, but there are two very prominent ones - Funimation and Crunchroll. Both owned by Sony, and both can be found on the Xbox as well. If you look deeper into things, and try to find every aspect of Sony in a different console, you will find plenty of Sony Music artists in pretty much any game with licensed music. Then there's multiplatform games like Ghostbusters, Jumanji and Hotel Transylvania, albeit of differing quality.

The point is, this is really just a natural partnership. Disney is a bit funny about things like this when it comes to ownership, WB is falling apart, so it's really just up to Sony, Universal or one of the mini-majors.

For a moment I didn't notice it said live action and thought it would get a animated treatment like Spider-Verse or The Mitchells vs the Machines. That would have been so perfect.

This will help Sony's shareholders forget about Jim Ryan's live service disaster.

The director they chose isn't very well known for releasing good movies so I'm a bit skeptical here.

I was so excited for this until I saw it was the director of the Maze Runner

It’s going to be absolute steaming arse cheeks. Mario was garbage but at least that was made for kids. Who is this even aimed at?

This is their chance to run the franchise into the ground xD

Easy profit right there to be a part of and definitely good to work with nintendo for future projects on big ip.

I'm so happy that the 2 are collaborating after around 30 years. They should be united against thirsty M$

The best crossover in history!

I see a repeat of the Nintendo-Phillips back stabbing. Its surprising that Universal Studios is producing this film. Avi Arad isnt encouraging either. 😬

@Nei I bet there is a paragraph or two in the paragraph barring Playstation branding it people having any involvement in this venture.

@nessisonett hrmm...over 50 millions copies of the last two Legeng of Zelda games alone tells me there is an audience. And stop it...the Mario film was obviously everything it needed to be lol. It grossed over a billion. Your opinion on Mario is in the overwhelming minority. What were you expecting?

I guess we know who Nintendo fans are going to blame if it goes bad.

Has no one at Nintendo seen the movies sony puts out?!
For every Jumanji there are 5 emoji movies and PG13 venom films.

@Ralizah because those of us in the aging Link to the Past crowd aren't interested in bonkers wind waker style garbage (as a fan of ww myself, I feel the same lol).

It makes the most sense to do Zelda in live action, same with metroid. Mario, Pokemon, Kid Icarus, animated features please.

though I'm of the like mind that this won't be good. As much as I enjoyed into the spiderverse, I'm no fan of the Uncharted movie. I'd assume eat bowl of wet socks worn by the Eagles before watching that garbage again.

@Nyne11Tyme Mario was typical Illumination. Rubbish made for kids who can’t sit still and man-children who look up IGN articles about movie Easter eggs. The Lego Movie is the gold standard for actual creativity with a license. Zelda is very different from Mario and a movie is a hard sell especially live action. It’s not going to be typical kids stuff, it’s not going to appeal to an adult audience. Who’s left?

I was hoping for zelda cg movie like mario movie 😕

@Flaming_Kaiser what issue did I make? I made a clarification. I think you are confused.

@BeerIsAwesome The Demon Slayer games were even made by Aniplex themselves, which is a subsidiary of Sony.
But they were internationally published by SEGA.

@Hydra_Spectre You can even say the same thing about Sword Art Online as well with Bandai Namco, but there's a surprisingly large list of Aniplex-made anime that has seen videogames that have released on other platforms. I can't speak for much of it though. I have seen some anime, but not great swathes of it over the years.

Oh no its live-action 🤢🤢

@Ralizah Why not? Zelda's kind of been all about different art directions, live action and animated movies could co-exist just fine.

@GamingFan4Lyf I know it's all in jest,but did you ever play (or at least watch a longplay),of Alundra on ps1? Must admit never got in as far in as the longplays of my video store rental of it but enjoyed it as much as I was tearing my hair out BITD!

YouTube channel A Bit More Jordan has a nice retrospective/playthrough of it,well worth a watch!

@JeongersGaming I just don't think the aesthetics of a Zelda world would work well with photo-realism. Most video game stuff looks goofy at best in live action.

Zelda's had different art directions, but all of them have been heavily stylized.

Avi Arad's involvement is enough to sink any enthusiasm I might have had.

I like Zelda games but without Link talking the story is continually a bit rough like Red Dead Online cutscenes. It feels very one sided.

I would love to see Sony and Nintendo partner together and put Zelda on the PlayStation!

@Robocod I dabbled with Alundra a couple months back. Seemed to be a good Zelda-like from what little I played.

I think people are forgetting that Sony is more than just PlayStation. I mean sure, Sony Pictures have marketed many PS related franchises but this one has no impact to the brand

i can already hear the crying once they confirm link has been given a voice and become a socialite.

@BeerIsAwesome Demon Slayer is different as the games were NOT from Bandai Namco.
Bandai Namco has a near-monopoly with video game adaptations of anime/manga, and Demon Slayer was notable with Aniplex/Sony keeping the video game rights and making the games themselves.

@Hydra_Spectre Huh, today I learned!