Nintendo pushes back live-action Zelda movie to May 2027

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

Now that the Switch 2 is retired successful the wild, Nintendo is acceptable to denote immoderate atrocious news. The upcoming live-action movie based connected The Legend of Zelda has been delayed — though lone by a fewer weeks. The movie was previously slated to deed theaters connected March 26th, 2027, but Nintendo present says that it volition beryllium retired connected May 7th instead.

There wasn’t an explicit crushed fixed for the delay, but successful a connection connected X, Super Mario and Zelda creator Shigeru Miyamoto — who is serving arsenic a shaper connected the movie — said that the determination was made for “production reasons” and that “we volition instrumentality the other clip to marque the movie arsenic bully arsenic it tin be.”

There inactive aren’t a batch of details astir the movie itself, different than the information that it volition beryllium live-action and directed by Wes Ball, who astir precocious helmed Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. The movie is portion of Nintendo’s larger extremity of expanding beyond games done ventures similar diagnostic films, which started with the animated Super Mario Bros. Movie, which pulled successful much than $1 cardinal astatine the container office and is getting a sequel.