movies/tv Nintendo Making Its Way Into The Film Indrusty! Your Thoughts?

[Moony the Cat 3,702]

Sure why not, give me more to watch !

 

I like the Idea of Nintendo making Movies based on their games, i am one of the few People who enjoyed every Video Game Adaptation i ever watched, i like having even more. 

[Castle Bleck 19,310]

Just make them actual brothers this time, not father and son (wut?)

 

They actually were in that movie.

 

Luigi specifically just said that Mario raised him like a father, that's all.

[Sapphire Lightning 784]

Could it at last . . . . be time?

 

 

 

^ This!

Studio Ghibli + LoZ would be awesome... IF studio Ghibli was given full creative rights over the movie, with a bit of help (but no directing) from S.M. That would help prevent it from becoming a too-shallow-for-amovie "princess rescue".

 

That being said, even if it was as corny as the TV series, I would still watch it.

[Steel Accord 6,660]

 

 

That would help prevent it from becoming a too-shallow-for-amovie "princess rescue".

 

Don't be so quick to say. First of all LoZ has ALWAYS (at least since Ocarina) been more than about saving the Princess, it's saving a nation and the whole world. It just so happens that Zelda is a key part in setting the world right again so Ganondorf must neutralize the threat she poses. Yeah, for all Link does, he wouldn't need to be there if Zelda still sat the throne of Hyrule acting as its rightful ruler and keeper of the magic that keeps evil like Ganon at bay. It's Zelda, the character for whom the series is named that is ultimately of greater consequence than the hero.

 

Second of all, Mario's movie would be a more straight forward save the princess narrative. Even still . . . that's provably not a bad thing for a film to be based on. Proof of that?

 

 

[Sapphire Lightning 784]

Good points, Steel.

 

What about this then: The Legend of Link: The Movie ?

Where there is no massive world shattering problem to solve. Where it is a personal journey taken by link crossing Hyrule in an emotionally trying but uplifting attempt to find out what happened to his parents? (Sorta like the Journey of Natty Gan?) I would see something like that too

[heavens-champion 1,905]

Hopefully it won't be like they last time they had a movie based off their games. Remember the Super Mario Brothers movie? Any similarity to the games mostly boils down to the main heroes being named Mario and Luigi, and the villain being named Koopa. Granted, the Mario games didn't have much of a plot besides Bowser kidnaps the Princess, Mario saves the Princess, lather, rinse, repeat.

[Dark Horse 12,941]

If this does go ahead then I sincerely hope they make a concentrated effort and it doesn't just amount to cheap fan pandering. They have the potential with some of their properties to make a very engaging story and I personally think they could adapt very well to screen format, but I'd hate to see it as "Here is our game on screen because we can't make up the numbers on consoles".

 

My hope would be not to have a movie about a video game, but a movie about these worlds that Nintendo has created, with stories perhaps not always possible to show when playing from the perspective of a single character. It could open up a lot more, wouldn't you think?

[Steel Accord 6,660]

Good points, Steel.

 

What about this then: The Legend of Link: The Movie ?

Where there is no massive world shattering problem to solve. Where it is a personal journey taken by link crossing Hyrule in an emotionally trying but uplifting attempt to find out what happened to his parents? (Sorta like the Journey of Natty Gan?) I would see something like that too

 

Well then it's not really an adaptation is it? It's a completely different property that just happens to involve a guy who looks like a certain video game character. Besides "finding his parents" or even being hung up on them is not something Link ever is concerned with. The closest thing we get is Wind Waker where his sister gets kidnapped and he goes on the quest to save her. In that, he even has a parental figure in the form of his grandma.

Hopefully it won't be like they last time they had a movie based off their games. Remember the Super Mario Brothers movie? Any similarity to the games mostly boils down to the main heroes being named Mario and Luigi, and the villain being named Koopa. Granted, the Mario games didn't have much of a plot besides Bowser kidnaps the Princess, Mario saves the Princess, lather, rinse, repeat.

 

Well exactly as you pointed out, it was being produced not directly by Nintendo from a spreadsheet that was so thin you could blow on it and it would tear. Nowadays, everyone knows who Mario is and has at least a passing familiarity with what the Mushroom Kingdom looks like. Any new creators couldn't help but be influenced by the years of change, even if they tried to.

[Luigi 7,869]

Personally I'd love to see a film adaption for Paper Mario, Paper Mario Thousand Year Door, Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess, and of course Ocarina of Time.

 

But Michael Bay better have no involvement in Nintendo's movies.