Overview
- Series creator Shigeru Miyamoto announced via Nintendo’s official X account that Bo Bragason will portray Princess Zelda and Benjamin Evan Ainsworth will play Link in the live-action adaptation.
- Bragason’s credits include BBC’s Three Girls, Disney+’s Renegade Nell and the horror film Censor, while Ainsworth is known for The Haunting of Bly Manor, Flora & Ulysses and voicing Pinocchio.
- Wes Ball, director of the Maze Runner trilogy and Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, is leading the film’s pre-production with a vision to blend Studio Ghibli–inspired fantasy and grounded realism.
- The movie is a co-financed venture between Nintendo and Sony Pictures, produced by Miyamoto alongside Marvel veteran Avi Arad through Arad Productions.
- Industry reports indicate the leads may be signed for a planned trilogy over six years, though no plot details or narrative approach have been confirmed.