Live action Legend of Zelda series

[Cassie]

Report: live-action Legend of Zelda series being developed at Netflix | Ars Technica

The streaming service that brought us Orange is the New Black is reportedly dipping into video games for its next live action series. The Wall Street Journal reports that a series based on The Legend of Zelda series is "in the early stage of development," according to an unnamed "person familiar with the matter."

The WSJ's source describes the show, which is reportedly still searching for writers, as a "Game of Thrones for a family audience," with a "humorous, kid-friendly tone." Nintendo is reportedly working closely with the streaming service to ensure fidelity to one of its most popular game series. Netflix and Nintendo have not officially commented on the report.

Link, Zelda and their cohorts last graced TV screens in a 1989 animated series that ran alongside The Super Mario Bros. Super Show for a single season in 1989. Rumors of a Zelda movie have popped up occasionally since then, but never come to fruition.

Since licensing out a number of animated shows and the disastrous Super Mario Bros. movie in the late '80s and early '90s, Nintendo has generally been quite controlling with the idea of putting its characters into TV. Aside from the long-running Pokemon anime, the last Nintendo property to become a US TV show was Kirby: Right Back at Ya! , an animated children's program that ran on Fox in the early 2000s.

Will Link's name be Link? OR SEXYBEAST125?

 

[The Tomtrek]

He better say "EXCUSE ME PRINCESS" right! RIGHT

 

[CaptainWacky]

Will Tingle be in it? Can we have a "Tingle casting thread" thread, please?