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Cobretti2 on 24 April 2023
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Norion said:
Slownenberg said:

I mean you could say that about every big budget live-action movie ever. Those aren't problems. That just means they have to make it good lol. A great live-action Zelda movie would absolutely kill at the box office and would set them up to use the same actors for a couple more Zelda sequel movies.

Mario movie cost 100 million. Sure Zelda live-action might cost 200 or 250 million. But Mario movie is going to soar over a billion. A great Zelda live-action movie would definitely have a great shot at 1 billion as well. So being more expensive than an animated movie isn't an issue. As with any movie, you need to make it good and appeal to a wide audience. And given how popular fantasy live-action movies are these days Zelda not breaking even would not be a worry.

You gotta keep in mind that after this film the highest grossing video game films have only ever reached 400m. A brand as massive as Mario combined with Illumination's expertise at making animated films loads of people wanna watch made this happen. A high quality live action Zelda film could do well but a billion would be unlikely regardless of how good it is since the average person is much more likely to know who characters like Mario and Bowser are than Link and Ganon.

Yer but with that logic, why would anyone create a new live-action movie with new characters? Sometimes you have to risk it to get the biscuit as they say lol. Therefore, just because a wider audience may not know it now, doesn't mean that a well executed movie can't attract them to it. Otherwise movies would have been long dead already. It also depends what Nintendo's aim would be. Would it be a one off movie or would they try to make a series out of it? The first movie, they may be happy to break even if they spend big money on marketing for it for example, as this will drive people to want to watch the next one (assuming first one was good).

We also all know that Nintendo don't always play it safe as we seen with their consoles, so I can see them going all in and taking a gamble to see if it pays off.