A Live-Action ‘Legend of Zelda’ (Might) Be Coming to Netflix!

Hold on to your replica Master Swords for a little while longer, Geekscapists. A Legend of Zelda live-action series might be coming to Netflix.

From The Wall Street Journal:

The video streaming service is in the early stages of developing a live action series based on “Zelda,” about an ordinary boy named Link who must rescue a princess named Zelda and save a fantasy world called Hyrule, said a person familiar with the matter. As it seeks writers to work on the show, Netflix is describing it as “Game of Thrones” for a family audience, this person said.

As of right now Netflix has not commented, so don’t celebrate just yet.

Still, the fact that there are rumblings even remote to this kind of project is amazing. We talk often about how geeks have become the mainstream, but I’m still reminded on a daily basis how wide the gap still is between geek and mainstream cultures. Even when Game of Thrones is the hottest show on TV and the Marvel movies make more money than third-world GDPs, you would be surprised how wide the gap between the cultures still remains.

But back to a Zelda series, this is just so BOSS. I’m not the biggest Legend of Zelda fan, but I would totally watch a TV series based on the games. I’m familiar with them enough and I know the series’s mythology is pretty wonky, so there’s no harm in creating a continuity unique to just the show.

I love the idea of a family-friendly fantasy series. Not everything has to be grim, depressing, and aiming to be “realistic,” whatever that fuck that means. We might be raising a generation of pessimists with the amount of depressing television out right now.

Sit tight as we hope to learn more about a LIVE-ACTION Legend of Zelda series. This wouldn’t be the first TV series based on a video game, as far as I recall, but we explore the movie option so much we forget TV is a viable option. And we’re living in its golden age!