What We Want Out of a 'Legend of Zelda' Movie

Nintendo is making a live-action film adaption of The Legend of Zelda–a game franchise best known for its silent protagonist, an infinitely repeating plot, and a timeline so convoluted that trying to understand it inevitably drives one to madness. How do you adapt something like that into a two-hour film? It's tempting to say, "No one asked for this," but that's true of movies based on theme park rides, British teddy bears, and plastic blocks. There is no law that says movies based on video games--or any established intellectual property--must suck. And now that Nintendo has gotten a taste of that juicy box office, a Legend of Zelda movie was inevitable anyway.