I mean, they're not going to do Star Trek style prosthetics in this economy.
There are a lot of potentially interesting things one could do with a Zelda movie, and none of them matter. This thing is going to be played as safe as a brand-new baby car seat. Chris Pratt is too old and square to play Link in live-action but hell, maybe they'll go ahead and cast him anyway. At this point it's almost a shame not to.
(If it were in my hands I'd try casting Link as deaf, with ballet-esque orchestration carrying the sound effects and dialogue. A silent film with the sword strikes from The Wind Waker. What you save in localised dubbing costs you lose a hundred times over at the box office, but twenty years later it's a cult classic!)
Ocarina of Time was the default vision of Hyrule that fanwork built off as I was growing up, even after Twilight Princess came out, and it remains a rich source of nostalgia. My guess is that the movie will strongly resemble it. Hollywood abhors a movie where the characters aren't constantly talking, and Navi is a constant companion that one can easily imagine slinging out the "well THAT just happened" quips. Zelda-as-Sheik solves the damsel in distress problem before it even rears its head. Link travelling across the country to get the band (sages) together for an epic show(down with Ganon) is a classic plot. It's got all the pieces you need and you don't even have to write much of an original story! Everybody recognises it and claps.
I haven't seen a writer's name attached to it yet, but the producer and director's filmographies don't fill me with astonishing confidence. It seems like it's destined to be an utterly mid blockbuster. But maybe if we all wish hard upon a star, they'll at least make some horribly Twilight Princess style decisions in the character designs.
2/3 5/30
