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Legend of Zelda live-action series?
Initially I spent a fair amount of time in Adaptation Announcement Reaction Stage 1, i.e., pure, unbridled, gleeful hype.
By now I've moved onto Stage 2, the stage where I'm still optimistic, but all sorts of uncertainty flags have been raised. Remember the 80's cartoon? Remember the Super Mario Bros. movie?
In a week or two, I'll be at Stage 3, where I think it's an absolutely terrible idea and am convinced that they will screw it up. I will probably hover between there and Stage 2 until I see a preview, which will set my expectations more solidly to one of the three stages.
Hopefully Link says "Well excuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuse me Princess."
Zelda's one of the last things that needs LA TV adaptation. A movie series, maybe. But Zelda's something that needs to be put in the right hands. I like the idea of a Zelda series, but it should be different from live-action because some of the characters are so good because of their appearance. It's hard to get a good person to look like Tingle or Beetle or even Gaepora. What about the Gorons and Zoras? Now, IGN had, for the most part, the proper idea when they released the April Fools Zelda movie trailer.
Is there any adaptation that doesn't "needs to be put in the right hands"?
Seriously.
What I mean is that a live-action Zelda series needs to be handled delicately. If it's to be good, it needs to do what it can to represent the series instead of having some story that's marketed as "Zelda." I've seen this kind of thing happen before. Most notably, Need for Speed's film adaptation was barely even an adaptation. It was another car movie with the Need for Speed game and it didn't do anything with any actual characters. I've seen a story for a NFS U fanfic which used the places, characters, and cars from Underground. Zelda's a franchise that is so well handled that any changes would be unpleasant. It's like Mario's live-action movie, or the Street Fighter movie, or Dragonball Evolution. Somethings can't be messed with at all. With something as well--weitten and heavy on world and culture and story and legend as Zelda, it can't be messed with. If it is, all you'llhave is another Michael Bay film. SFX, no great story, changing things. That's my prediction,anyway. I may be wrong on it, but I have strong relations with some Zelda fans who own all the main series games. Changing it will lead to complaints. Don't "mess" with Zelda. Just go by the book when it comes to the universe itself. If you want to write a new story for it, give it the Zelda vibe and don't make a gritty reboot, a reinvention, a modern-day adaptation, or anything.
Ans to comment on this, some don't need to be handled as delicately. The world for Thunderbirds' reboot was cool. The flaw in that film is that it was way too geared for kids, unlike the family friendly 1965 series. Now there's this new series, and I don't think the appearance of the show is different enough. The theme is pretty much the same, and it's not as sci-fi as it could've been. I'm not saying my opinion is all that matters, but I believe a reboot of Thunderbirds should at least try to be a little more different. And IT Crowd had an American pilot that was more or less he exact same thing as the original pilot, and it got horrible reviews, so it never aired. Some things don't need a level of delicacy. Zelda does.
