Culture news “Money must be seen on the screen”, the director of the film Zelda reveals his ambitions for this highly anticipated project!
Wes Ball has spoken about The Legend of Zelda film project that he is going to direct, and everything indicates that the budget allocated to the feature film will really be felt on the screen. He claims to have learned lessons from his previous projects.
If Wes Ball is currently busy promoting his latest feature film – Planet of the Apes: The New Kingdom – he is already preparing for his next big project: the live-action film The Legend of Zelda, in collaboration with Nintendo. And the least we can say is that he has ambition.
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This is on the occasion of an FAQ on the subreddit dedicated to the films of the license The Planet of the Apes, that director Wes Ball answered questions from Internet users regarding his projects. If most of them only concerned the simian franchise, one of the users asked him about the lessons that the filmmaker learned from the said project, and which will impact his future project: the adaptation of The Legend of Zelda.
Money must be seen on screen. You have to be ambitious. Have confidence in the talent around you. Try to do something great – Wes Ball (Reddit).
These words, if they are not currently based on anything concretehelp to reassure fans of the cult Nintendo license, in the same way as the time when he declared he wanted “fulfill people’s greatest desires”, during an interview with Total Film. Fact, the choice of live-action for the project had already caused a lot of ink to flow when it was announced, despite total supervision of the project by big N, who had already conquered theaters with the film Mario. Since then, the question of the budget has become centralalthough nothing has yet been revealed on this subject, to hope for an adaptation worthy of Zelda. Wes Ball had declared, on this subject, knowing that “this franchise is very important to people, and I want to make it a serious project. A real film where people can escape”.
A long-standing project
Long before all these stories, Wes Ball was already interested in adapting The Legend of Zelda on the big screen, but then imagined it completely differently. In fact, it was in 2010 that the director shared on his X account (formerly Twitter), that he clearly saw a feature film all in motion-capture for Zeldain the manner ofAvatar by James Cameron.
Since I could never even hope to have the chance to direct it… the next big mo-cap Avatar-like movie should be… THE LEGEND OF ZELDA.
— Wes Ball (@wesball) January 29, 2010
Ball did not comment further on the project, it is because according to him, “Nintendo would come out of the bushes and shoot me”, indicating therefore that Discussions about the film are still hot. While waiting for reassuring news or not, Wes Ball’s latest film, Planet of the Apes: The New Kingdom will be in theaters from May 8.
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