Zelda Was Haley Joel Osment's Star Wars, and He Wants to Be in the Live-Action Movie
We can guess that there are plenty of Hollywood stars who want to appear in the upcoming live-action The Legend of Zelda movie, and Haley Joel Osment is one of them.
Osment stopped by our IGN Arcade series to look back at movies like The Sixth Sense as well as talk about his most recent film, Blink Twice. But, as part of the show, he also played a little bit of The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time, which is when he asked, “Are they ever gonna make a movie out of [The Legend of Zelda]?”
When we told him that yes, there is a live-action film on the way and asked him if he’d want to throw his hat in the ring, Osment didn’t hesitate.
“Oh, my hat’s in the ring, they know my hat’s been in the ring,” he said. “Link was like 37 when he did all this, right!? Seventeen, 37? As a kid, I was like, ‘obviously they’re gonna make [Ocarina of Time] a movie soon, the story’s all written out for you!’ And you’re like, ‘that’d be very challenging to make into a compelling two-hour movie.’ “
As far as what Zelda lore he’d like to see in the film, Osment said, “Ocarina and Majora’s Mask, those are my original Star Wars [trilogy].”
Nintendo and Sony Pictures first made the massive announcement about a live-action The Legend of Zelda movie last November, with Wes Ball (The Maze Runner, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes) set to direct and Avi Arad and Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto producing. Unfortunately for Osment and other Zelda fans hungry for information, Ball refused to reveal his favorite Zelda game in a previous IGN interview, so we’ll likely have to wait and see if he’s an Ocarina of Time and Majora’s Mask fan like Osment.
“Ocarina and Majora’s Mask, those are my original Star Wars [trilogy].”
We’ve gotten a few other pieces of information since then, including the fact that Ball plans to take a “grounded” approach to adapting The Legend of Zelda. We still don’t have other key pieces of information however, including castings and a release date.
For more from our IGN Arcade interview with Osment, check out his comments on potentially saying goodbye to Sora after Kingdom Hearts 4 or watch the full episode below:
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Alex Stedman is a Senior News Editor with IGN, overseeing entertainment reporting. When she’s not writing or editing, you can find her reading fantasy novels or playing Dungeons & Dragons.
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