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CAL4M1TY on 04 April 2009

Metroid or Professor Layton (I know it's not Nintendo, but the animation sequences in that game were pretty much movie quality).

I don't think Zelda would be a good choice.

Firstly, which one do you go with?

Secondly, no matter which Zelda game you make into a movie, it'll be hated, you can't compress a 30+ hour per game franchise like Zelda into a movie of roughly 2-3 hours. That's one of the reasons why video games and comic adaptions only work if they either ignore certain plot points from the original OR they focus strictly on one particular plot line (origin story or whatever).

Third, it'd be viewed as a weaker narrative LOTR.

Fourth, These characters have not had proper voices in over 20 years, giving them now, to the 3 main characters in the story, would actually hurt the game franchise. Metroid isn't so bad because recently, everyone else in the universe got a voice and it would only have 1 character without one (Samus).



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W4n9Le on 04 April 2009

ZELDA



MattAAron on 04 April 2009

im sure we can all agree, definetly Dr. Mario hands down

someone care to explain humorously how the movie might be?



Myviewing on 04 April 2009
CAL4M1TY said:
Metroid or Professor Layton (I know it's not Nintendo, but the animation sequences in that game were pretty much movie quality).

I don't think Zelda would be a good choice.

Firstly, which one do you go with?

Secondly, no matter which Zelda game you make into a movie, it'll be hated, you can't compress a 30+ hour per game franchise like Zelda into a movie of roughly 2-3 hours. That's one of the reasons why video games and comic adaptions only work if they either ignore certain plot points from the original OR they focus strictly on one particular plot line (origin story or whatever).

Third, it'd be viewed as a weaker narrative LOTR.

Fourth, These characters have not had proper voices in over 20 years, giving them now, to the 3 main characters in the story, would actually hurt the game franchise. Metroid isn't so bad because recently, everyone else in the universe got a voice and it would only have 1 character without one (Samus).

Way too true.

 



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cEED on 04 April 2009

2nd Party: Eternal Darkness

1st Party: Metroid



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Millennium on 04 April 2009

None of them. Video game movies suck, and they can hardly do otherwise: good video game plots don't translate well to film, and vice versa.



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SaviorX on 04 April 2009

Fire Emblem. It could be like Lord of the Rings, or Pathfinder.

Kirby if Pixar was making it.



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Snake612 on 04 April 2009

I would like to see a Legend of Zelda film.



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Nirvana_Nut85 on 04 April 2009

I would like to see Zelda. I think that if they were able to get Guillermo Del Toro and Peter Jackson to produce the movie together and make it a Trilogy then it would be well worth it.



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Strife91 on 04 April 2009
CAL4M1TY said:
Professor Layton (I know it's not Nintendo, but the animation sequences in that game were pretty much movie quality).

 

They are already making one...

http://myanimelist.net/anime/6172/Professor_Layton:_The_First_Movie