Nintendo Delays Live-Action The Legend of Zelda Movie

Nintendo has delayed the motorboat of its upcoming live-action The Legend of Zelda movie, the institution has conscionable confirmed.

A connection by Nintendo fable Shigeru Miyamoto, posted to societal media this afternoon, states that "extra time" volition present beryllium taken to amended the film's quality.

The movie had been acceptable to get connected March 26, 2027, and volition present get May 7, 2027 — the day antecedently held by the now-delayed Avengers: Secret Wars.

"This is Miyamoto," the connection reads. "For accumulation reasons, we are changing the merchandise day of the live-action movie of The Legend of Zelda to May 7, 2027.

"It volition beryllium immoderate weeks aboriginal than the merchandise timing we primitively announced, and we volition instrumentality the other clip to marque the movie arsenic bully arsenic it tin be. Thank you for your patience."

Nintendo did not elaborate further connected its determination to determination the Zelda film's motorboat date, but the company's determination to instrumentality vantage of the erstwhile Avengers: Secret Wars slot suggests Nintendo wants to instrumentality vantage of Marvel's erstwhile motorboat window, and steer wide of respective different large hitters astir its erstwhile motorboat day successful March.

Zelda's erstwhile merchandise day had been conscionable 1 week aft the scheduled merchandise of Sonic The Hedgehog 4, connected March 19, 2027, and would person seen it quadrate up straight with Godzilla x Kong: Supernova.

Avengers: Secret Wars is present acceptable for December 17, 2027, meanwhile.

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