Nintendo has delayed its live-action The Legend of Zelda film. Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto–who created Zelda–said in an announcement that the delay comes right down to “manufacturing causes.” The movie is slipping from March 26, 2027 to Could 7, 2027.
“For manufacturing causes, we’re altering the discharge date of the live-action movie of The Legend of Zelda to Could 7, 2027. Will probably be some weeks later than the discharge timing we initially introduced, and we’ll take the additional time to make the movie pretty much as good as it may be. Thanks in your endurance,” Miyamoto stated.
No particular motive for the delay past “manufacturing causes” was disclosed. Hollywood motion pictures get delayed on a regular basis, so this isn’t all that stunning, and the shift just isn’t all that lengthy as delays go.
The film is a co-production between Nintendo and Sony Photos, with Miyamoto producing. Marvel veteran Avi Arad is one other producer on the film.
The live-action Zelda film will probably be directed by Wes Ball, who is thought for his work on the Maze Runner collection and Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. The filmmaker desires to swing for live-action Hayao Miyazaki aesthetics with The Legend of Zelda film, in addition to for it to “really feel like one thing actual. It stays to be seen precisely what which means, nonetheless.
Ball, the director, beforehand teased his imaginative and prescient for the Zelda film. “I’ve this superior concept,” he stated. “I have been eager about it for an extended freakin’ time, of how cool a Zelda film can be… I wish to fulfill folks’s biggest needs. I do know it is vital, this [Zelda] franchise, to folks and I would like it to be a critical film. An actual film that can provide folks an escape.”
There isn’t any phrase but on casting particulars for the Zelda film, so we do not but know who could play Hyperlink, Zelda, or another characters who present up.
Whereas the Zelda film is delayed, Nintendo’s The Tremendous Mario Bros. Film 2 stays on observe for April 2026.