Sony and Nintendo collaborate to produce a live-action Legend of Zelda movie

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Nintendo is making a live-action Legend of Zelda motion picture. The pc gaming titan announced on Tuesday that it has actually started advancement on the task in collaboration with Sony Pictures Entertainment, which will certainly manage staged circulation when the motion picture is launched.

The live-action Legend of Zelda motion picture will certainly be generated by Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto and Avi Arad, that has actually generated a variety of films for Sony consisting of Venom, several Spider-Man films, and Uncharted. While the Legend of Zelda motion picture will certainly be a co-production in between Sony and Nintendo, Nintendo will certainly fund greater than 50% of the movie, according to the business’s press release. The motion picture will certainly be routed by Wes Ball, whose following movie will certainly be Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes; he likewise formerly routed all 3 films in the Maze Runner trilogy.

Miyamoto himself published a declaration concerning the movie using Nintendo’s X (previously Twitter) account, claiming that he has actually been dealing with the motion picture for “many years now” which he asked Arad to produce the movie with him.

There’s no word yet on a launch day for the motion picture, or exactly what the story could cover.

The live-action Legend of Zelda motion picture comes simply a couple of months after Nintendo’s monumentally effective launch of the Super Mario Bros. Movie, which is both among the biggest movies of 2023 and the biggest video game adaptation ever at the box office.

 

Source: Polygon