Release Date Announced for Nintendo’s Bold ‘The Legend of Zelda’ Film

It was easy to forget this even existed, but the Legend of Zelda live-action movie from Sony and Nintendo is still happening, and now it has a release date.

That would be March 26, 2027, almost exactly two years from now, and four years after it was announced in 2023. The first confirmation of this seemed to be through the new Nintendo news app, of all places, sometime Nintendo wants everyone to download.

The Zelda movie may be a somewhat exciting prospect, but it also feels like a pretty big risk for a few reasons. Namely, that it’s live-action, something that was not the case with the billion dollar-grossing Super Mario Bros. movie which was able to channel the look and feel of the games exactly. Doing that in live-action for a Zelda movie will likely be much more difficult, though perhaps not impossible.

The director of the movie seems like at least something of a question mark. That would be Wes Ball, director of the somewhat-okay YA Maze Runner trilogy, but more recently, the well-received Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. But those are the only movies under his belt in the last 11 years, and this is a huge, high profile project with an IP beloved by millions of fans over the course of quite literally 40 years.

The film also has producer Avi Arad on board, who is best-known for producing a long list of superhero productions, from nearly all Sony’s older Spider-Man movies and some X-Men movies. However, most recently, he’s presided over the very bad, now-dead Sony Spider-Man villain universe which includes three Venom movies, Morbius and Kraven the Hunter, the last of which is one of the worst-grossing superhero movies in the entire modern era. Also, his last foray into a video game adaptation was the outrageously bad Borderlands movie.

I’m just not sure this sounds like a dream team at this point, plus the base concept of a live-action Zelda movie is treading a knife’s edge, and feels like far less of a slam dunk than a CGI Mario movie. CGI would have probably worked here, or probably even better, an anime series, but here we are.

The movie will be out in two years, minus any delays, but I would not expect to see much promotion for it until some time in 2026. At least we have a date now, which is more progress than we’ve heard in several years.

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