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Soundwave on 11 April 2023
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mZuzek said:
CaptainExplosion said:

It'd need to be at least half an hour longer than the Mario movie, and it might be difficult to sell to kids considering how much darker it'll be too. Sure the Mario movie got surprisingly dark at times, but not to the point that it had anything as gruesome as this.

I mean, Ocarina of Time still sold to kids. Kids don't mind darker things in their movies, the problem is actually with the parents who think they do.

Anyway. Can't wait to see Link riding into Ganon's Castle to the sound of Holding Out For a Hero.

62% of the Mario Movie's audience was 18+ in the US ... so Nintendo has actually a majority fan base of adults (not kids). Just like Marvel movies do, at one time comic books and characters like Batman (DC) and Spider-Man (Marvel) were supposed to be "kids characters", that's obviously not the case now. 

Zelda can easily appeal to kids, when I was a kid I liked the darker Batman movies, so did basically every kid. Even the Ninja Turtles movie (the first one) was fairly dark and violent. But make no mistake, the majority audience for a Zelda movie is 18+. The story trailer for BoTW is already crazy epic. 

The music for Zelda is so epic too, it's going to be a huge advantage for whoever is scoring the film. 

Last edited by Soundwave - on 11 April 2023