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I'm... oddly hopeful.
I love The Legend of Zelda and I'm hoping that they'll get the aspect of the dungeons right. There are many avenues they can take that will make it a great movie, at least potentially, but the people behind this venture are, well, mixed in terms of know-how; even their record is mixed.
The problem is not that Link will have to be speaking but that it will be a film that's around two hours long, maybe two-and-a-half at best (but that will never happen). Even with movies like Killers of the Flower Moon and Oppenheimer, making movies extra-long (in any way from the two-hour mark) just doesn't happen enough. It should. But it won't in this case; it'll be marketed as a blockbuster film.
Oh yeah, and they might make it too Lord of the Rings-esque... which may also be the only way they can do it, but the "whimsical" nature of Zelda and its best lore would be lost in the translation to film.
Honestly, there's a lot of ways they could take this film and that's what has me excited, but of course, the people involved would have to be on their A-game.
I really don't like the Hollywood royal court that decided through a series of whispered favors and backroom deals that the producer and writer should both be clowns, but if it's actually good and you're happy, I'll be happy for you.
The producer... I could care less about.
The writer? Now there's the rub...
It needs good writing, but honestly, the fact that it's not animated really limits the whole thing...
The problem with a bad producer is that they have backroom influence over the entire production, from who gets hired to how people there get treated, and it can have subtle but profound effects on the finished work.
Huh.
In many ways, I always assumed that a "producer" was a glorified position.
that's usually "executive producer"