Nintendo will co-produce the film with Sony, and will feature the creator of ‘Super Mario’, Shigeru Miyamoto, and Avi Arad, producer of films such as ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’
The Japanese video game developer and distributor Nintendo announced this Wednesday that he is developing a live-action film of the ‘The Legend of Zelda’ franchise.
The film will be produced by the creator of ‘Super Mario‘, Shigeru Miyamoto, and Avi Arad, producer of films such as ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’, as detailed by the Kyoto-based company in a statement, where it did not announce a possible release date.
The movie will be co-financed by Nintendo and sony, although the first will be in charge of more than 50% of the financing, while the distribution will be carried out by Sony, said text stated.
‘By becoming deeply involved in film production with the goal of making everyone smile through entertainment, Nintendo will continue its efforts to produce unique entertainment and offer it to as many people as possible,’ the company said in said statement.
The announcement comes after this year’s release of ‘Super Mario Bros.: The Movie’a huge box office success that also helped boost sales linked to this franchise, something that Nintendo would now seek to transfer to Zelda.
Also a day after Nintendo announced its results for April-September, where increased its net profit by 17.7%up to 271,298 million yen (1,685 million euros), a record figure for a first half and driven by the weakness of the yen.
One of the sales drivers was precisely the launch in May of the video game ‘The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom’, of which it has sold 19.5 million copies.
The turnover of Nintendo’s mobile titles and IP management business soared 133.3% to 55 billion yen (341.8 million euros), driven by the premiere of ‘Super Mario Bros.: the movie’ and the effect this has had on the increase in sales linked to this franchise.
Nintendo was today the second most traded company of the day on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and rose at the mid-session break around 6.40%, its best result since December 2020.