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Cypher997
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Avi Arad is involved, expect something to go wrong. No, I still haven't forgiven him for the mess that was Spider-Man 3.
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Kurohei
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| Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2025 3:09 pm |
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Sonic 4 scared them away.
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Dr. Wily
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| Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2025 3:22 pm |
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They had to finish a few sidequests before the movie could truly be ready for release.
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MFrontier
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| Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2025 4:22 pm |
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Probably need as much time as possible if they're going to at all get this right.
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Kiwi93
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| Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2025 5:32 pm |
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I still don’t understand why they went live action for this instead of animated like the Mario movie.
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BadNewsBlues
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| Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2025 5:50 pm |
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| Kiwi93 wrote: | | I still don’t understand why they went live action for this instead of animated like the Mario movie. |
Mario was likely done in animation to begin with because it had already been done in live action.
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Silver Kirin
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| Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2025 7:12 pm |
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| Kiwi93 wrote: | | I still don’t understand why they went live action for this instead of animated like the Mario movie. |
If I had to guess, I think that Nintendo and Sony Pictures are aiming for something similar to the Peter Jackson Lord of the Rings movies, maybe trying to make Zelda into a big blockbuster fantasy epic. Not to say that you cannot make an epic animated movie, but aside from some anime movies like Princess Mononoke, which was only a huge blockbuster in Japan, I don't think producers think that an animated movie could work as a serious action fantasy film, I mean, even more oriented animated movies like the Spider-Verse films and Transformers One have a lot of comedy-based gags. I bet Sony wants a PG-13 action fantasy movie and those are more easily marketed in live-action
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Aperture Clyde
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| Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2025 8:01 pm |
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They should just cancel it entirely instead.
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Ashen Phoenix
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| Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2025 9:59 pm |
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Neither the director nor script writer give me a lotta hope, but I'm still praying this film turns out to be good somehow because it damn well deserves it.
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BadNewsBlues
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| Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2025 11:36 am |
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| Aperture Clyde wrote: | | They should just cancel it entirely instead. |
But why? I thought one of the biggest problems with modern Hollywood is that they never take risks.
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Dr. Wily
Joined: 09 Nov 2007
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| Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2025 2:27 pm |
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| BadNewsBlues wrote: | | Aperture Clyde wrote: | | They should just cancel it entirely instead. |
But why? I thought one of the biggest problems with modern Hollywood is that they never take risks. |
I mean, making a movie out of one of the biggest/most popular game franchises of all time is not really taking a risk. It might have been when video game movies were looked down on as automatically trash, but since Mario and the Sonic franchises became big successes (maybe not critical darlings, but we're not talking like, Resident Evil here), people are more willing to actually believe give video game movies the benefit of the doubt.
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Nekbone
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| Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2025 4:27 pm |
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| Dr. Wily wrote: | | I mean, making a movie out of one of the biggest/most popular game franchises of all time is not really taking a risk. It might have been when video game movies were looked down on as automatically trash, but since Mario and the Sonic franchises became big successes (maybe not critical darlings, but we're not talking like, Resident Evil here), people are more willing to actually believe give video game movies the benefit of the doubt. |
Quality aside, the Resident Evil movies were incredibly successful and spawned many sequels. Any movie based on an existing IP is inherently not a risk compared to an original one.
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Avec ou Nous
Joined: 17 Feb 2023
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| Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2025 7:40 pm |
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Akira Himekawa made some wonderful manga adaptions of Zelda that I would personally love to see turned into an anime one day, but Nintendo seems to be focused on the Hollywood audience.
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BadNewsBlues
Joined: 21 Sep 2014
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| Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2025 11:27 pm |
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| Dr. Wily wrote: | | I mean, making a movie out of one of the biggest/most popular game franchises of all time is not really taking a risk. |
It is when the medium has seen a number of adaptations of beloved media properties some of which went on to be very successful and far too many that were money losing flops. Sonic & Mario succeeding doesn’t suddenly lower Zelda’s risk of sharing the fate of those bad adaptations I alluded too.
| Nekbone wrote: | | Any movie based on an existing IP is inherently not a risk compared to an original one. |
If this were truly the case why did the performance of the Ratchet & Clank movie kill the Sly Cooper movie?
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MarshalBanana
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| Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2025 3:00 pm |
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Given recent video game adaptions trends. I predict it to make a billion dollars and have a sequel greenlight within a month.
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