{"id":378253,"date":"2026-09-18T02:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T09:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=378253"},"modified":"2026-09-30T09:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T16:28:12","slug":"the-legend-of-zelda-live-action-movie-gets-a-release-date-worldwide-debut-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/the-legend-of-zelda-live-action-movie-gets-a-release-date-worldwide-debut-confirmed\/","title":{"rendered":"The Legend of Zelda live-action movie gets a release date: worldwide debut confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nintendo has set a worldwide theatrical release date of <strong>April 30, 2027<\/strong> for <a href=\"https:\/\/the-legend-of-zelda-dungeons-of-infinity.en.softonic.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">The Legend of Zelda<\/a>, the company\u2019s next major attempt to turn one of its biggest game series into something larger than games alone.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nintendo of America president and COO Devon Pritchard has called the movie one of Nintendo\u2019s most exciting projects, saying films give the company more ways to reach longtime fans as well as people who\u2019ve never picked up a controller. After The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Nintendo is plainly pushing harder into film. Zelda, though, is a tougher bet: its more dramatic fantasy tone, older audience, a reported <strong>60\/40 male-female split<\/strong>, a reported 42% US adult brand positivity, and Shigeru Miyamoto\u2019s own \u201cextremely high hurdle\u201d all make this a riskier test.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The live-action The Legend of Zelda movie is being made with Sony Pictures, directed by <strong>Wes Ball<\/strong>, produced by Shigeru Miyamoto and Avi Arad, and is expected to tell an original story set in the Zelda universe rather than adapt any single game.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For people who follow Nintendo closely, the current state of the project says a lot: there are now official images of Benjamin Evan Ainsworth as Link and Bo Bragason as Princess Zelda, but there\u2019s still no <strong>trailer<\/strong>, and fan reaction remains split. Some are hopeful about Wes Ball\u2019s serious, self-described \u201clive-action Miyazaki\u201d tone. Others still think Zelda would work better as animation.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You\u2019ll be able to see The Legend of Zelda in theaters worldwide on <strong>April 30, 2027<\/strong>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo has set a worldwide theatrical release date of April 30, 2027 for The Legend of Zelda, the company\u2019s next major attempt to turn one of its biggest game series into something larger than games alone. Nintendo of America president and COO Devon Pritchard has called the movie one of Nintendo\u2019s most exciting projects, saying &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/the-legend-of-zelda-live-action-movie-gets-a-release-date-worldwide-debut-confirmed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Legend of Zelda live-action movie gets a release date: worldwide debut confirmed&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9351,"featured_media":378252,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[6823],"class_list":["post-378253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","content-category-games"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9351"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":378254,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378253\/revisions\/378254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378253"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=378253"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=378253"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=378253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}