The Legend of Zelda is getting a live-action film from Nintendo and Sony

Sony and Nintendo have not collaborated on a lot of something since the Nintendo PlayStation went awry. However Sony’s movie division is placing its cash along with its console semi-rival to provide a live-action The Legend of Zelda movie.

Particulars are scant past a Nintendo press release and Hollywood reporting by Deadline. The director is Wes Ball, director of the Maze Runner movie trilogy, and the author is Derek Connolly, who wrote the Jurassic World trilogy and was tagged to work on a putative Metallic Gear movie.

The movie shall be produced by Nintendo legend Shigeru Miyamoto and Avi Arad, the founding father of Marvel’s movie arm, Marvel Studios, who later produced Marvel and different IP-based movies for Sony, together with Uncharted and the Spider-Man and X-Males movies. Arad, Deadline stories, was “a lynchpin” to finalizing a movie that has lengthy been within the works. Arad can be reportedly concerned within the gestating Metallic Gear movie.

Nintendo will present greater than 50 p.c of the financing, in response to Deadline, with Sony dealing with the theatrical launch. The Super Mario Bros. Movie ranks because the yr’s second-highest-grossing movie at $1.36 billion, which possible helped green-light one other movie centered on one other well-regarded Nintendo property.

Miyamoto posted on X (previously Twitter) that he had labored with Arad on a Zelda movie “for a few years now.” The movie is “now formally began,” with “Nintendo closely concerned within the manufacturing. It’ll take time till its completion, however I hope you stay up for seeing it,” Miyamoto wrote.

No launch date or plot particulars can be found.