What would happen if Nintendo, Universal Pictures and Jim Henson’s factory agreed to bring The Legend of Zelda to the big screen? The first two hit the mark with Super Mario Bros. The Movie, for the record. The other reality is that in 1985, a year before Link debuted on the Famicom, a fantasy movie was released. with interesting elements in common. Enough so that, with a few adjustments here and there, it makes us dream of an adaptation that never was.
The movie in question is Legend, dry, and you can currently see it on Disney Plus. And beware, it’s not just any old thing: it stars a very young Tom Cruise who plays Jack O’ the Green (a green Man), the wise Princess Lily played by Mia Sara and a faultless Tim Curry playing the villain (for a change) as the Dark Lord. In the direction, none other than Ridley Scott. If we add to his footage that of other contemporary classics such as The endless story either through the mazethe result ends up being a total fantasy.
The video, 80s Dark Fantasy Legend of Zelda Movie has been uploaded since the filminick channel and shares the parallels of the saga of Legend of Zelda with many of the adventure and fantasy films that were released four decades ago. Of course, it must be recognized that there are elements placed here and there that will not appear in the Hero of Hyrule saga until much later, such as the concept of the fairy that accompanies and guides the protagonist. Something that didn’t appear until Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
In fact, this fake trailer has a description and short synopsis inspired by the Nintendo 64 masterpiece. And, to be fair, we wouldn’t need much more to mobilize fans of the Zelda saga to movie theaters.
When an evil lawlessness was in control of the kingdom, the stranger appeared to sacrifice himself. In this classic 1983 trailer for Universal Pictures and The Jim Henson Company’s The Legend of Zelda, Link receives a message from the Great Deku Tree.
“Link, you are in danger. And I must leave you. The story is much deeper than you think, and you are part of it. Now, everything depends on you”
At this point it is time to show how the film is legend from 1985 to establish the similarities and differences and really appreciate filminick’s work with the fake trailer. And, for example, the following advance with which his arrival in theaters was anticipated almost 40 years ago.
Of course, the orchestrated version of Koji Kondo’s music and the sounds taken directly from the video games end up doing the magic and breaking down the barriers between the movies used for this fake suit and the Nintendo video games. And we are not going to deny it, the young Tom Cruise would have been a great Link and Mia Sara would not have even had to change Legend’s wardrobe to play Zelda.
Will we ever see a The Legend of Zelda movie?
The success of the film Super Mario was only the beginning: Shigeru Miyamoto himself, creator of the saga as well as of Legend of Zelda, Pikmin or Donkey Kong, it is clear that we will see new productions based on Nintendo franchises. From here the questions are reduced to two: What games and when will we see them?
We know from Chris Pratt, the voice of Mario in the film, that the actors’ and writers’ strike has paralyzed Universal and Nintendo’s plans to produce a sequel. However, there has been talk of individual projects for Luigi, Donkey Kong and of course, The Legend of Zelda. An adventure in which, by the way, Link would speak. Although to be fair, he already did it in the classic cartoon series and the infamous Zeldas on CD-I.
In any case, the fans have produced a huge number of films and small projects based on The Legend of Zeldbecause they can be found without much difficulty through the network of networks. In VidaExtra, in fact, we made a very special selection with the best short films and unofficial productions.
Now, Nintendo’s adventure saga will have some rope left for a while: to the enormous commercial success of Tears of the Kingdom, we must add that Switch has not stopped receiving essential classics from the saga every little while. In the absence of a blockbuster Made in Hollywoodthe gates of the Kingdom of Hyrule are wide open on Nintendo consoles.
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