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"Nintendo Films. - Ideas, etc, etc."

I'd love to see a Metroid film based on the lands in Prime 1 and 2. That would be pretty sweet.

Any other ideas, thoughts?

If Nintendo gets this right they could be sitting on a gold mine! or we could just end up with another lame Mario movie!

I'd love to see a Metroid film based on the lands in Prime 1 and 2. That would be pretty sweet.

Any other ideas, thoughts?

If Nintendo gets this right they could be sitting on a gold mine! or we could just end up with another lame Mario movie!

They were going to do an Eternal Darkness film but I hav no idea what became of it.
I would like to see a real action Zelda film, or a CGI fil that ends up being a lot better made than Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within.

I think films based on Nintendo games would be disappointing. It would be hard to capture the essence of the game without somebody like Miyamoto on set, but he's not famed for his film directing so it would more than likely end up as tripe. Just look at the Mario Bros. film...

The Nintendo cartoons were OK - well I was only 5 or 6 at the time.
Pokemon's not too bad.
If they get the right people to make them I'm sure they'd be great.

B.A.S.I.C wrote:

> If they get the right people to make them I'm sure they'd be great.

That's the hard part.

JFH wrote:
> B.A.S.I.C wrote:
>
> If they get the right people to make them I'm sure they'd be great.
>
> That's the hard part.

You got me there - I know! thats the next GAD - make a Nintendo movie!
Just kidding.

Hmm... as reagrds to the recent news story, I'd lay money on it that Ninty will be doing a Zelda movie... almost go as far as laying money on it!

Nothing will ever beat the Super Mario Bros film.

Chipseh wrote:
> Hmm... as reagrds to the recent news story, I'd lay money on it that
> Ninty will be doing a Zelda movie... almost go as far as laying money
> on it!

I'd go with that. An epic thing like Lord of the Rings would be brilliant.

CG or live-action? And if live.. who to play Link?

Zelda would obviously be Kiera Knightley <3

I don't think that a Zelda film could ever work. Casting Link would be almost impossible. It'd be hard finding somebody that looks like him and has a suitable voice, Link never speaks in the games but it wouldn't be possible for him to not speak throughout an entire film. I reckon they'd probably end up putting Orlando Bloom in as Link.

If they were to include the young link / adult link thing that would confuse the casting even more and no child or teenage actor that I can think of would do Link justice.

The main part of Zelda games are the dungeons and in the dungeons Link spends a lot of time by himself. It would be hard to create an effective film where there is one character by himself for long periods of the game. Either the dungeon trekking would have to be drastically cut down and Link would have to spend a lot more time in towns, or they'd have to turn Princess Zelda into a character willing to go off into dungeons or introduce a new character for Link to go with.

All-in-all it would be a very hard and risky thing to do.