Cobretti2 said:
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. |
Sure it can be worth it to take a gamble. I was just saying that a Zelda film would have a lot lower box office potential than a Mario one currently.
Slownenberg said:
Yea exactly. And sure Zelda isn't as high profile with the general public as Mario, but outside of Mario it is one of the most recognizable IPs in video games. Norion, it's not like people are gonna be like "what is this zelda thing??". You combine the highly recognizable IP of Zelda with the highly popular genre of blockbuster fantasy movies and you've got a potentially enormous smash hit in live-action Zelda movies that could go through several movies especially if they really build the characters in the first movie so that people think of the actors as Zelda, Link, etc like the way the public thinks of the actors in superhero movies as those characters. Suddenly people are coming out of nowhere acting like live action movies can't make money lol. I don't think there is any chance that a Zelda animated movie would do anywhere near as well as a Zelda live-action. I'd give Zelda live-action at minimum few hundred million dollar advantage at the box office compared to an animated movie. I don't see Zelda animated appealing to anywhere near the number of people that Mario animated appeals to, but I could see Zelda live-action being on par with Mario animated movie's appeal. I think, assuming high quality for both concepts, Zelda animated would probably be a <$500 million thing, while live-action could very well be over a billion and possibly as big as wherever the Mario movie ends up. Cuz with live-action you're gonna still have all the kids into it, but you're also gonna have all the 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s year olds who love fantasy movies loving it. |
A lot of people would actually be like that cause I doubt that many people above the age of 50 know what Zelda is but loads will know about Mario for example. Zelda is not as popular and well known as you're suggesting it is, the gap between it and Mario is huge so a Zelda film would not get the audience numbers to reach a billion let alone equal the Mario film. I think it'd likely become the 2nd highest grossing video game ever made but a billion is a massive leap from there.
