The live-action The Legend of Zelda film remains to be a great distance off, however the movie’s director — The Maze Runner and Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes director Wes Ball — has lastly shared his hopes and ideas on the movie.
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly (by way of Stealth on Twitter), Ball says that he needs his Zelda film to really feel like a “live-action Miyazaki” film. Ball states that he is an enormous fan of the Legend of Zelda video games and a fan of Hayao Miyazaki, the acclaimed animated director and co-founder of Studio Ghibli, whose movies embrace Castle within the Sky, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, and 2023’s The Boy and the Heron.
Sharing his imaginative and prescient, he instructed the publication that he sees the film as: “this superior fantasy-adventure film that isn’t like Lord of the Rings, it’s its personal factor.” When speaking in regards to the Ghibli director, he says that he admires the marvel and whimsy that he brings to issues” and hopes to recreate, or at the least see that, in his Zelda movie. I’d like to see one thing like that.”
Ball, who’s at present in New Zealand engaged on post-production of Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, additionally instructed EW that he hopes his passions for each Zelda and Miyazaki will shine by way of the ultimate product. And whereas manufacturing on the film hasn’t but began, Ball has mentioned that “We’re engaged on the script”, and that he hopes to maneuver on to the film after he is executed with the Planet of the Apes film.
The Ghibli and Miyazaki comparisons will hopefully put many followers comfy. Studio Ghibli is usually cited as a dream studio to adapt Link’s adventures for the large display screen, and plenty of followers have taken to recreating the Zelda video games in that fashion.
