Zelda Film Announced

I've been looking around and found this place to be the best place to formaly announce my new and up coming Zelda project this summer. The script is nearing finishing and the costumes are half done. We've found locations and are working hard on fight choreography. Filming plans to start within the next month and hopefully will conclude by august. I will keep you all posted and will have some pictures up soon. Tell me your guy's ideas and what not, I would be very much abliged.

 

If you pull this off, and it doesn't suck, you will be my new hero.


Rick McCallum loves you!

 

try to remain true to the spirit of the original game. if youve ever seen the 80s cartoon, think something like that, just not as cheesy. as well, try to stick with characters that people are familiar with from the games, dont invent new villians, itll just detract from the whole film...

that being said, i say good day and good luck...I.Say.Good.Day!

 

try to include the music of the game from the forrest...I loved that!!Maybe when you kill an enemy you should include some easter egg sounds from the original game!

~Rory

 

I'm planning on using the music from the game (orchestrated version of course) and we're sticking as close to the game as possible, just our own story, like a spin off i suppose. Oh yes a new update is; the use of 11 horses is confirmed.

 

Just curious, which game are you basing this off of? IMHO, Ocarina of Time seems like it would make the best film, but all of them would work if done right.

 

If I'd ever make a Zelda fanfilm, I'd use CG and voice acting, but since you're not doing that, then good luck to you, you'll need it.

 

Another vote for Ocarina of Time!

And, have any of you guys seen this?
http://www.nintendo.com/gameminiav?gameid=54610f14-1826-4d46-9981-8f72874aee2e&anchor=avcontent-24075380-ce06-4c00-8

 

Yep, Ocarina of Time is what its based off. Or atleast the characters.

 

Cool! Looking forward to it.

 

I couldn't help but get a LOTR feel from watching that clip...Are you intending to make it like LOTR or will Link be on his own quest?

Maybe you can make him as nimble as legolas!!!

~Rory

 

*sigh*

This makes 3 Zelda films...and I thought I was the first *grumble*

Also what sucks is that I wanted mine to be the first Legends of Zelda movie...of course, I have no doubt that mine'll be very good (shamless I tell ya...) but I still would've liked to be the first...

Anyway, ours won't be starting filming until later this year, at the earliest...pre-production is going on sort of now...but we're not going to focus on it until we get most of Revenge of the Sith out of the way.

*sigh* oh well, Good luck I guess

 

Holy crap thats freaking sweet.
I hope you can pull it off, good luck.

 

here is a web page link to some of the costumes and props (not link's yet sorry) http://groups.msn.com/almighty-clan/zeldaprops.msnw?Page=Last

 

Props are pretty, but don't really have that Zelda feel to them. You have the hero shield and green hat done? Those are some of the most characteristic pieces.

 

And here's the other Zelda film checking in!

First things first, welcome to the boards. We're glad to have ya here! And I wish you luck with the film. As with Krill's film, mine isn't the highest of priorities at the moment, and I don't have anywhere near the amount of money that it would take to make the film as good as I would want it to be. We also had planned on using the Original Orchestrated soundtrack for the film, seeing as it is precisely what Koji Kondo wanted all the songs to sound like. We also some other neato stuff planned for it, but right now it's more of a lucid dream than anything.

Anyways, I checked over the props, and I have to agree with the last poster, they don't really have that Zelda feel to them. The sword could maybe get by, if you had your film take place after Link placed the Master Sword back in the Temple of Time at the end of Ocarina of Time (locking the Sword Chamber) and grew up using a different sword. But the sword still doesn't carry that kind of fantasy look that is so particular to the Zelda universe.

Well, again, I wish you luck with this, and I hope your film turns out well!


Cheers!
-Derycke

 

Hey thanks for the replies you guys. Well to answer some of the last comments: This sword isnt intended for "Link's Sword" it will probably be an extra or a one of the villains. As I said before link's costume isnt finished yet and we will have his hat and sheild, we do have another sword on the way the relates to the master sword much more than this other one. I'll keep you all posted.

 

Oh, don't worry, a Master Sword is physically possible.

http://www.smitesoftware.com/images/Sword3.JPG
http://p082.ezboard.com/fpropreplicasfrm35.showMessage?topicID=216.topic

Though a similar one with the triforce on it should do the trick.
I've heard you can make prop swords easily out of automotive leafs. You may want to look into that.


About the film, sounds interesting and judging from the use of horses, you seem to be attempting OOT. It will be awesome to see Link galiantly riding Epona across the fields of Hyrule.

Also, what creatures will you be attempting? Zoras would be simple, but complex ones such as Gorrons or Gannon (pig version) would be more difficult. Or perhaps you're using CGI for those.

BTW, your MSN site is down for me.

 

WOW it cost him 3000 rupies! Oh I mean dollars.
**crawls back inside hole**
~Rory

 

We've got plenty of Zoras to do, umm... we're trying to make it as real as possible so some of the other creatures may be left out. (not to great with cgi) but other than that we're still working out some minor details.

about the msn site, i'll check it out and try to identify the problem.

 

I thought Brandon was making the Zelda film.

 

What are you shooting on? What format/camera?

-Laker

p.s. Huge Zelda fan here, don't screw this one up buddy

 

I've got a pretty standard mini dv camera. its a jvc-dr310 if youre looking for details, I've got premiere pro to edit it on and other forms of everything. But when its done hopefully i can host it here.

 

JVC!?

*falls over choking and sputtering*



[EDIT: Just for kicks, I tried to look up your camera...jvc-dr310 doesn't seem to exist as nothing came up in Google or the JVC website... ??]

 

oops my bad, its a gr-dvL310. sorry about the misunderstanding.