Nintendo Uses Its New App to Announce the Release Date of the Live-Action the Legend of Zelda Movie

Nintendo has announced the live-action The Legend of Zelda movie launches connected March 26, 2027.

Confirmation comes from the precocious released Nintendo Today! app, which was unveiled during the Nintendo Direct March 2025. No different accusation connected the movie was revealed.

Video crippled fable Shigeru Miyamoto spilled the beans connected the company’s latest quality propulsion arsenic a last-minute stinger during the showcase. This all-in-one telephone exertion comes with a assortment of perks for die-hard Nintendo fans to beryllium alert of.

This hub for each things Nintendo serves arsenic a regular calendar and quality instrumentality to drip provender accusation straight to players arsenic it happens. Miyamoto utilized the illustration that, aft the Nintendo Switch 2 Direct premieres adjacent week, fans volition beryllium capable to log into the Nintendo Today app to drawback each of the updates, with much quality arriving “daily” from there.

But the large quality has started early, with the Zelda movie merchandise day confirmation definite to thrust plentifulness of fans to download the app hoping for likewise seismic announcements successful the days to come.

Nintendo and Sony Pictures archetypal made the monolithic announcement astir a live-action The Legend of Zelda movie past November, with Wes Ball (The Maze Runner, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes) acceptable to nonstop and Avi Arad and Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto producing.

We cognize adjacent to thing astir the movie itself, though. Ball has said helium wants it to beryllium "live enactment Miyazaki," referencing beloved filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, the manager of Studio Ghibli and creator of myriad anime classics specified arsenic My Neighbor Totoro, Howl's Moving Castle, and Spirited Away. Ball inactive plans for the Zelda movie to beryllium a "serious" adaptation that feels real, and has made wide helium doesn't mean to usage overmuch question seizure successful the "grounded" film.

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