Possible Live Action Legend of Zelda Series

Oh, yeah, I saw news of this yesterday.

Considering the last TV adaptation of Legend of Zelda was rather hit or miss (well, excuuuuuse me, princess), I'm skeptical if there even is any kind of way Netflix could pull something like this off.

CarcharOdin said:

Oh, yeah, I saw news of this yesterday.

Considering the last TV adaptation of Legend of Zelda was rather hit or miss (well, excuuuuuse me, princess), I'm skeptical if there even is any kind of way Netflix could pull something like this off.

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If you ask me, the Legend of Zelda cartoon tried too much to be like the Super Mario Bros Super Show instead of trying to be its own thing. (Unless you're talking about some other Zelda TV show that I don't know about, that also had the line "Well excuuuuuuse me, princess." But I don't think such a thing exists.)

That said, this might be able to work. Might. I'm skeptical, considering that most of the time video games based on TV shows tend to suck. Especially games that are made with an emphasis on gameplay over story like Zelda. Still, this could still work.

...But I'm going to be honest: I have pretty much no faith it this.

Aren't live action adaptations of things usually.....kinda bad? And like Orpheus said, Zelda's always been pretty light on story, so what are they supposed to do? Are they gonna focus on one particular game, do a mix, make up their own story, or what?

But it's too early to know really. It could be fantastic, it could be crap. All they seem to have at the moment is the idea and little else.

Zekrom said:

Aren't live action adaptations of things usually.....kinda bad? And like Orpheus said, Zelda's always been pretty light on story, so what are they supposed to do? Are they gonna focus on one particular game, do a mix, make up their own story, or what?

But it's too early to know really. It could be fantastic, it could be crap. All they seem to have at the moment is the idea and little else.

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I think they could probably get away with making their own story. It'd be easy enough to just say that it's an alternate timeline or something.

Orpheus said:

I think they could probably get away with making their own story. It'd be easy enough to just say that it's an alternate timeline or something.

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And lets face it, Legend of Zelda has so many timelines that I think it would be a-okay if Netflix wanted to create a whole new timeline to experiment with.

Mah boi, this live action series is what all true warriors strive for!

Uh, sure, why not? Seriously, go with TP's LoTR-esque asthetics, apply a story based on what's given, throw in GoT style politics and have fun with it. Family oriented or not, I can see them creating a political struggle between the Gerudos and Hylains, throw in espionage with the Sheikah, and have link be this rand-style wunderkid who's gonna save the world.

I saw a tweet that pretty much sums up what I think:

Netflix calling it Game of Thrones for a family audience..

Game with a silent hero...
Inspired by a show that's mostly about talking

Ok...

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If Navi is played by Peter Dinkelage, my life will be complete.

I hope it does well but i don't know... Hopefully it isn't to bad.

Hutt! Hyaa! Tchyaaa! - Link

I think this is a bad idea. I heard them trying out a movie once upon a time and I still thought that was a bad idea, evidently they did too because they canned the project.