Zelda Movie Director Wants It To Be More Miyazaki Than Lord Of The Rings
Ever since it was announced, it’s been hard to fathom what a live action Zelda movie might look like or what it will be about. Will it follow the archetypal events of the games or chart a completely new story? Will Link still have pointy ears and a green tunic? Well, today the upcoming Nintendo movie’s director, Wes Ball, gave fans something to chew on: He wants it to be more like a Hayao Miyazaki animated movie rather than Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings.
At least that’s what he told Entertainment Weekly this week in a brief interview. Ball, who directed The Maze Runner and the upcoming Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes movie, described his vision for a live-action adaptation of Zelda as “this awesome fantasy-adventure movie that isn’t like Lord of the Rings, it’s its own thing.” “I’ve always said,” he continued, “I would love to see a live-action Miyazaki. That wonder and whimsy that he brings to things, I would love to see something like that.”
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He called the action-adventure series, whose latest entry, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, broke sales records and might be one of the best games ever made, the most important “untapped IP” around. “My whole life has led up to this moment,” Ball told Entertainment Weekly. “I grew up on Zelda and it is the most important property, I think, that’s untapped IP, if you will. So we very much are working hard to do something. We’re not just trying to do it because we can. We want to make something really special.”
You go tap that IP Mister Ball, just like Miyazaki would.
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