Hey. You're 13...so that means you'll be attending Highschool this fall right? I'm actually going to bootcamp next week for the Marines. Ha! But I'm going back to school this summer and I'm gonna be working toward my film/sociology major. Just jot down your ideas...preferably on note cards. I'm still thinking about who or what is gonna start the whole conflict and who or what Link is gonna have to fight to save the world.
I'll awnser that for ya... GANNONDORF!!! It just wouldn't be LOZ with out him!! There is going to be a lot of drama in it too. Like for example, the movie (s) will finnaly awnser questions like, "Will Link and Zelda ever get married???" and "Will Link finnally tell Princeses Zora girl (what ever her name is...) that he dosen't love her??" , the history of his parents and the making of the Tri-Force and stuff like that.... I want to rival LOTR (if it can be done...) . So those are some ideas. Sound OK to u?? Anybody? And about the Orlando Bloom thing, #1: I dont thnk he'll want to play another elf. #2: I want some varity. But ill put him under some consideration. And i need more people in this thread. Could anyof u help me??
Don't worry about the cast.
I think I'm heading down a different path. The movie I see isn't what you're seeing. For instance, the details you want to include are based too much on OoT. I'm going for a whole new story. Of course I'm planning to include the main aspects of LoZ, such as
-the creation of Hyrule and the triforce
-The repeating characters Zelda, Link, Gannon Impa (and maybe the sages)
and
-how (just as it says in the scriptures) some bully is gonna come and try to take over the world but some hero is suppose to come out of nowhere bearing Hyrulian descent to come and beat him up.
But I really don't plan on writing a movie already written. Seriously, the people who have already played the game are going to know too many specifics. Let's be creative guys...
I actually read a script already written by someone that is based solely on OoT. You can find it here: http://www.icybrian.com/fanfic/danielalfaro/zeldatreatment.txt
Ok, i get it. If we work together, (share ideas and stuff) we could make a franchise. OoT could be part of a seires of some sort. Like, a movie BASED on OoT could be the first one (cince u know Link is droped off at the Kokri Forest and is placed with the Great Deku Tree by his mother just before she died). It could include the history of the Tri-Force and an explanation on a whole lot of stuff. OR we could leave out the Tri-Force and that sort of Hyrulian lore and make a prequles and sequles. In the story, the first hyrulian king harnest the Tri-Force and stored it away in the sacrade relm (how ever u spell it...) and Gannon, with his group of thiefes try to steal it. Only ones of pure hart (pure evil or pure goodnes), can weild the power mind u. Gannon, after two tries finally gets a hold of the Tri-Force of Power. After that the king takes the Tri-Force of wisdome to protect it and lockes the Tri-Force of Courage in the Sacrade relm. So we could do some thing like that in many parts and many adventures.... How does that sound?? 👆
Ok one thing .... you gotta watch with Orlando Bloom and a live action film ... that you dont make this into a LOTR 4: Further Adventures of Legolas ...
also ... Keira Knightley (Elizabeth from "Pirates of Carribean"😉 would make a pretty cool Zelda ... but the downfall of that is with Orlando ... then it seems like a reunion from the cast of "Pirates" ...
The guy from "The Mummy" movies .... who plays Imhotep ... he'd probly make a decent Ganon ... I dont know too much about his acting skills though ... but for appearance ... and general "villain"ness ... well ... he'd be pretty good ... (check out the features in the face ... nose ... eyes ... very nice resemblance) ...
hmmm ... any ideas for more ... :-D ... what about Angelina Jolie for Impa??? 😛
oh yeah and what about young link and young zelda ... gotta have ppl for them too ... if you plan on showing that stage in their life in fair detail ....
Actually...worrying about the cast right now is just a waste of time...I'm still writing...hopefully camooer is working too. After we finish writing...there's always revisions...then we have to actually beg for permission from nintendo to distribute the script. That's gonna be the hardest part. They're gonna have to like the script and think it's a good idea to make a legend of zelda movie...
I hear that they get over 75 legend of zelda scripts a year and that they turn every single one of them down, if they even read any of them.
But...I'll have to put this project aside because I'm heading off to USMC bootcamp today! Ha!
i had to join this forum when i saw this thread. i've been dreaming of this movie since i was maybe 7. but now of course, i dream of myself as playing zelda. oh hell yeah.
anyway, like many others said, orlando would be perfect for link, but not only would people go "oh it's just a lotr rip off", but it would destroy his career as well. he'd get labled as a specific type of actor, and he's too talented for that.
it needs to be live action, but with some digital effects as well. in fact, the only thing that it should share with lotr is that weta should do the effects. music by the original composer, or maybe howard shore. eh, that'd be too much lotr. must stay away from that.
all actors should be either unknown or relatively unknown (what do you think of chris masterson? (francis from malcom in the middle) ). again, zelda should be me. 🙂
this thread has almost made me want to stray from writing novels to maybe thinking along the lines of a zelda script...
This is probably late to say about the characters in the movie but...If it is on the Ocarina of Time, dosn't Saria half to be young because she never ages and was a kid in the game (Even though in The legend of Zelda The WindWaker, she's a dead ghost.) and shouldn't the person (or people playing Link) be 10 for Young link and 17 for Adult Link. (Since I found out link was 10 when he was warped 7 years in to the future )Who are you going t get to have Red Eyes to Play Sheik(Since he or she, don't know which, helps link out throught te game) 1 more thing if its on the O of T, are you going to get an Ocarina from orderng it from Nintendo Power Magazines (they all have em) 🤣
My friend and I were working on a script, we were gonna do ocarina of time as the movie, you sound like you may be further along, I though maybe I'd give you a couple ideas for actors. mathew Lawrence as adult link, his little brother andrew Lawrence as young link. James Earl Jones as the deku tree, (or the Owl), this one we were gonna save for a surprise, but we thought Robin williams would make a great Happy mask salesman. We were having some trouble thinking of a zelda though, we did decide we didn't want one of the olsen twins however. what do you think?
There is only one way that they could possibly do this movie. The movie would be one big journey, like Lord of the Rings. Split The Legend of Zelda into three movies making a trilogy. Get Peter Jackson to make this movie, since his Lord of the Rings trilogy would be similar to Zelda. One big journey. The land of Hyrule, instead of Middle-Earth. Get Orlando Bloom(the one that played the elf Legolas) to play the elf Link, since he is the only one that could possibly be a believable Link. Have a CGI animated fairy with him, because you can't have a movie where the main character doesn't talk to anyone and just fights. Thats probably why Zide/Perry entertainment decided to not do a metroid movie, because Samus doen't talk. They have to take The Ocarina of Time script and rework it. More characters to talk to. Maybe Zelda at one point actually ventures around with Link until she gets captured by Ganondorf. Or maybe a mysterious person named Sheik wants to go around with Link and help him. They have to take out most of the kiddish crap, or only Barney fans will come to watch it. They should make up a history for the movie, like when and why triforce first came into being. This history would sort of be like the history of the ring of power on Lord of the Rings in the beginning of the first movie. There should be a very clear reason why Link would have to travel through all the different dungeons, before he gets to Ganon's castle. Let's just say that Ganon has spread great evils to all the main regions of the world of Hyrule. Link has to go to all the regions and rid them of evil, and all the evil regions that Link has helped have prophecies that one day a boy clad in green would save them from a great evil. All the prophecies also state that they have to give Link their most valuable possession. These would be the different gems that Link has to collect. The gems have to be tied to the history of the triforce. These gems have to be collected for a certain purpose. Let's just say that they reveal the triforce or master sword or something. Anyway, the story continues all the way to a climactic battle scene at the top of Ganon's castle. Then we all get to watch the castle implode, like Baradur in Return of the King. They could even add the possibility of a second trilogy, or at least another movie. Just have Ganon trapped in the temple of time, and have him shout out he still has the triforce of power, and he will get out someday. Well, what do you think. I kind of got carried away. But I definately think that it should be more than one movie.
one thing people need to keep in mind is to to not always say peter jackson is a good director for an epic type movie because for one thing their are other directors out their who could probably do a better job, not that peter jackson's a good director it's just this movie isn't necessarily and epic. Just because orlando bloom played a character like link in LoTR does't mean he's good for the role. but i understand why he would be a good choice. I just don't think we should dwell on him being link because their are more choices out their. Their should be a 3 movie trilogy since thats the only way to get a good story out of it, if it was one movie it would bomb because all it would have is fighting no real plot but when writing a script you don't need every dungeon every item every little detail in the game because their is such a thing called a budget and over doing it. Always make it original and focus more on a plot then making an exact replica of the game OR AN EXACT REPLICA OF LORD OF THE RINGS. PLEASE PEOPLE STOP REFERRING TO LORD OF THE RINGS, IT'S NOT ZELDA. 😠
I wasn't trying to say that they should make Zelda like LOTR. I just thought the two movies would probably be similar. Since they are both fantasy tales, set in a huge fantasy world, with magic, elves, and other things. And the movie definately can't be a replica of the game. That would be stupid to do that. People would go to the theater already knowing what happens. They would have to dramatically rework the game script to make it into a movie. They should probably change the story around too. Add a lot of twists and new things to make it more interesting. And they shouldn't have treasure chests just lying around dungeons waiting to be opened. That works with the game, well since it's a game. They should have other ways for Link to get his hands on special tools.
They had a great idea in windwaker, in the movie they could have the mini bosses carrying the new weapon. not just carrying the weapon they could use it against him. It may be a little different, the bosses would be smaller, but that would just make it that much cooler when ganon transforms at the end...
Hello, I started this thread last summer and have now come back to it. I am surprised at all the feedback it has received and just to let you all know, the script is shaping up nicely. There are a few doubters out there, and of course, the one or two claiming they will obtain the rights to Zelda and not allow me and my friend to make such a movie, but, as far as I know, the rights still belong to Nintendo.
Anyway, I think the cast should be compromised of mainly unknown actors and actresses... My friend (co-writer) had at one point suggest Paul Walker as Link, but I have my doubts about that. Vin Diesel would be a mean looking Ganondorf, but he's too high dollar for this project. I like the suggestion of Rose McGowan as Impa, but, too young...
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I think that a zelda movie would rule! Ocarina Of Time would be the best choice for a movie based plot. However Orlando Bloom would probably be the best Link in appearance in Hollywood it would look to much like his character Legalos in Lord Of The Rings..so a new comer would be great. As far as Zelda...Ali Larter people! oh and anyone hear anymore news on the Silent Hill movie...def. would be amazing!