Wow. Live action Legend of Zelda series from Netflix

If this happens it is huge news.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/netflix-developing-nintendo%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%98legend-of-zelda%E2%80%99-as-live-action-series/ar-AA94S6B?ocid=ansVariety11

Please let this happen, and please let it be good.

I'm not interested unless this song is in the movie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCbY7AbBjCE

While I can't say I'm a huge Zelda fan, I loved playing Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask when I was younger. If they can keep the wide-open, nature-filled look and feel of those games intact, then I'd definitely be interested in checking it out.

Not sure what you mean honestly, but Netflix does release their content on DVD and Blu-ray a few months after it premieres.

Never really got into the games but a series could be interesting. A friend of mine says that he's going to be pissed if Link talks. Sounds like the dumbest thing ever. I don't care if he doesn't talk in the games, he better talk in the show or I won't watch.

Okay this is something I have been thinking about for a while and I don't have all the details sorted and I don't know how faithful this is to all the games so I don't think anyone will like it but if I was making the Legend of Zelda as a one off movie, not a Tv show like this, here is how I would do it.

First I would make it 2D animated in water colours so it would have a different look to everything else out there.

Second here is what the set up would be.  Link would be a poor mute(This gets rid of the problem of finding a voice after all these years that the fans would like)who grew up in a village in the shadow of the castle the young princess Zelda grew up in. like most people with a disability in the past Link would be treated badly by everyone and seen as basically a useless fool who had nothing to offer anyone. 

One day when she was a child Princess Zelda would be touring the village with her father the king,when she would meet the young Link and she would be the only person who looked beyond the fact that he couldn't talk and see him as the good person who is full of creative ideas that he is.  She would quickly get shoed away by her father and handlers, because she shouldn't be seen with someone like that.

Still we see that over the years whenever she can sneak away from the castle she visits Link so as they grow up they become fast friends. She takes the trouble to learn how to communicate with Link and for his part Link respects her as a person and not just a princess.  So we get to watch them grow up as fast friends.

We then become aware that there is an old hermit fortune teller living in the woods who while some of the peasants like Link listen to him none of the Elites like the king respect him or see him as anything other then crazy.  He foretells that an evil wizard with an army will arise and that the only hope for the land will be Princess Zelda, she will be the only one who can kill him through a magic power that only the hermit and Link believe she has.  Zelda doesn't know who to believe and she doesn't really believe she has this power. Then there is a dark side to the foretelling as well.  It seems that if the evil Wizard kills Zelda at a certain place and when the moon is in a certain phase then not just him but his army will become unkillable.

Well when they grew up a evil Wizard(Gannon)does show up and he kidnaps Zelda.  The king just thinks it is bandits so he sends a team of knights to save Zelda but they are never heard from.  This is when Link decides that he must go after his old friend himself.  The Hermit gives him a magic sword and shield to fight Gannon's army with.

Link sets off on his quest and along the way he sees strange sights and meets other people who join him or help him in his quest.  In the end he reaches the place the Hermit told him to go on the night in question and in the nick of time he frees Zelda and then the friends working together fight off the army and Zelda unlocks her power and kills Gannon.

They then return to the castle and Link is honored as a hero.

The story would be mostly told through music and visuals, and the animation of Link since it would be told from his view point.  Given that it is said that the less dialog a movie has the better it does at the international box office I don't see this as being a problem.  It would be an epic animate film where the classical score would be a very important part of the story telling.

As I said I don't know how well this would go over with fans but it is the best idea I could come up with that pays tribute to the games while also telling a story that I think would work in a two hour movie.

What do you think?

Yeah all those sound like good ideas.

I only went with mute because it would get rid of the problem of finding a voice and in a medivil type setting it would make him the ultimate underdog.  Mutes were not treated well back then.

I think it would be important to make the bond between him and Zelda as strong as possible so there would be something at stake the viewers could relate to and there would be a good reason it was called The Legend of Zelda.  It should be her story too.

I agree Link should be the ultimate do going hero like Luke Skywalker or Robin Hood.

Link being silent is only a construct of the gameplay mechanics, not an actual character attribute.  There are various indications within the games that he actually does speak—it's just that we aren't shown what he says.

I don't necessarily see him as being the most talkative sort, considering he usually lives alone and tends to react to things rather than initiating them, but it would fall completely flat to force a live action version of him to never speak.  In my experience with the world of Zelda fanfic, most of those who write him as silent tend to be unable to conceive of how to convincingly adapt the gameplay into a realistic depiction of the characters and setting.  (There are exceptions, of course; I've seen it done well before, but it's extremely difficult to pull off.)

The Zelda games are hardly the only ones to use the 'silent main character' device, anyway.

A few years ago I spent a lot of time writing a story based on Twilight Princess, and in it I depicted Link as being both soft-spoken and generally disinclined to engage in lengthy conversations, but perfectly capable of expressing himself well when he needs to.

Ironically, the lowest point for Link seems to come at the very end of the story, since he apparently gets his heart broken when Midna ditches him.  Both characters are sufficiently well-realized at this point that the words 'devastatingly final' seem an appropriate description for their separation.

This, combined with the above-mentioned sense that he doesn't seem to feel like he belongs in his home village, serve to make Link's ultimate departure from Ordon quite a sad ending to the story.  He rides off into the sunset, quite possibly never to be seen again by anyone in Hyrule.

Twilight Princess definitely has the best character writing of any Zelda game, which is why I felt moved to write about it.  (Skyward Sword left me cold; I was bored and disinterested from the start.)  I do see Link as being a Luke Skywalker type of character, heroic and idealistic and so on—which of course means that Midna is his Mara Jade, sarcastic and cold-hearted but with a hidden decency that becomes more apparent over time.  And red hair, naturally.

In the course of analyzing the story and structure of the game, I made the rather startling discovery that Link is not actually the main character at all.  Instead, he is the narrator, for the story is indeed told from his point of view, but Midna is actually the one the story is really about.

If there is to be a Zelda tv series, it seems doubtful that she would be in it, as they'd probably focus on a more traditional story about the Triforce and Ganon and so on.  I have doubts about whether such a show would be well executed enough to live up to the spirit of the games, but thinking about this now is making me want to write more myself.

lol  No, because the titles often don't apply this way in other games.  There is no character called "Ocarina of Time", for example.  ;)

Besides, remember the part near the beginning where Midna snidely refers to Zelda as 'twilight princess'?  The player is misdirected into believing the title is in reference to her, not finding out the truth until near the end.  From the way the story is told, Midna manages to drive much of the plot without actually taking over the narration at all, which is quite impressive from a writing standpoint.

Yeah that picture makes me really want to see a Zelda anime series.