The Watching Artist wrote:Cheeky Devlin wrote:The Watching Artist wrote:Cheeky Devlin wrote:That's not to mention how you cast something like Zelda. I know who these characters are and what they look like. I can just about imagine someone playing Zelda. But I'm having a hard time picturing anyone who could pull off Link or Ganondorf and not look like some cos-playing dick. Will Tingle be in the show?
Exactly why it should be animated.
Yeah. Animation is the perfect medium for it.
It's weird though because if the topic had been Netflix and Nintendo to work on making a Metroid TV series I'd have been far more confident.
Suddenly thinking about it now. Robin Williams would have been all over this as a voice actor.
You could always just watch.........
Metroid: Other M: The Movie
Williams
As for Other M I'm in the it's not that bad camp. If there's one thing Metroid has it's space to explore Samus back story. The fact that she spends 90% of her time in the suit helps as there's less of an attachment to how she looks herself. As long as the suit is right it's fine. Could very easily do an 8-part series. Sci-Fi is less of a leap for TV than the fairytale aesthetic of Zelda.
Alvin Flummux wrote:The Legend of Zelda is a pretty flexible franchise to work with - you've got a lot of death and darkness for the teen angst and more adult drama audiences, but half the series or more is based around child Links, which makes an animated show aimed at younger audiences possible for them to do too. It seems like a series ideally suited to multiple different shows, maybe even about the same Link and his many great adventures.
For me part of the problem is that Link as a character is a blank slate. That works great for games, when you create your own impression of who he is and can imprint your own values and opinions on him. But adapting that for TV or movies it's a very difficult thing to get right. Get it wrong and you get "Excuuuuuse me, Princess!". A character like Samus (To go back to Metroid) gives you enough of her own inner-monologue to give you a sense of who she is. So you do less imprinting which makes adapting her a far easier job. Especially since it's the same character through every Metroid game, as opposed to Zelda and it's multiple Links and Zeldas.
If they do go ahead with it then I'm not entirely sure what the story would be. Would they take from one of the games? Or would they come up with something original within the framework of the series. Actually, I'd love them to try and adapt Majora's Mask. Lots of weird and interesting characters to use, not to mention the darker tone would make for something quite interesting.