The Legend of Zelda live-action director: The series urgently needs a movie

Nintendo is working with Sony and Avi Arad to produce a live-action version of The Legend of Zelda. Director Wes Ball recently told Variety that Zelda is one of the last "untapped titles" that are perfect for a movie, and he's excited to be a part of the film.

“I can’t say too much, but Zelda is very important to me,” Ball said. “It’s right up there with Star Wars in terms of how it shaped my childhood.”

"As for adventure? This is it. It's one of the last untapped pieces that's crying out for a movie. But we'll see where it goes."

Obviously, Zelda has loyal and passionate fans, but for Wes Ball, who made the film version of the beloved series of novels, The Maze Runner, he also knows this very well. He said that he experienced the taste of "the game of expectations" (referring to the trade-off between trying to meet the expectations of the original fans and adapting) in The Maze Runner, and now he feels this feeling when directing Rise of the Planet of the Apes. For Zelda, he may face the highest expectations from fans in his career.

"Obviously, when you're making a thousand decisions a day, you can't have it all. You try your best to laugh at it and hope that you made the right choice out of the thousands of choices that you made. So I consider myself to be a huge Iger fan, and I believe in that as we move forward and hope that it stays with other people who want to see the same thing."