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Forbes
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Forbes
‘The Legend Of Zelda' Movie May Land A Perfectly Cast Princess, Per Report
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 20: Hunter Schafer attends the HBO Max FYC event for 'Euphoria' at ... More Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on April 20, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Emma McIntyre/WireImage) It remains to be seen where Wes Ball's upcoming Legend of Zelda movie is a good idea at baseline, but now a casting search appears to be spooling up for its major roles, including the titular princess. A new report from inside DanielRPK reveals that a specific actress is being eyed for the role, one that social media fans were theory-casting even before this news broke. That would be Euphoria's Hunter Schafer. As soon as the movie was announced, side-by-side comparisons started emerging about how perfectly she would fit into the role. Now, the film may have taken that to heart and may be pursuing the star. Schafer first rose to prominence in Euphoria, the controversial HBO teen drama that is finally filming its third season after a lengthy break, Schafer included. Since then, she's appeared in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Yorgos Lanthimos' Kinds of Kindness and the horror film Cuckoo. She's about to star in the upcoming Blade Runner 2099 series and has 5-6 other projects on the way. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess It is not yet clear which game story is being adapted for The Legend of Zelda movie, one that many were surprised was going to be live-action at all, given what Nintendo did with the massively profitable Super Mario Bros. movie. It feels like a big risk, but much of this will come down to casting. It's easy to see Schaefer as a good Zelda, but the key role will be Link, a character who barely, if ever, speaks in the games, and it's going to be very interesting to see how that aspect is handled. Here's what Zelda superfan and the film's director Wes Ball said about the project to Totalfilm back in March of 2024: "I have this awesome idea," Ball said. "I've been thinking about it for a long freakin' time, of how cool a Zelda movie would be... I want to fulfill people's greatest desires. I know it's important, this [Zelda] franchise, to people and I want it to be a serious movie. A real movie that can give people an escape." So, this seems to be pitched as high fantasy rather than the more cartoony versions of the game we've seen. And that makes a lot of sense for live-action. I hope we hear more about the film soon, and if it's confirmed that Schafer will play Zelda? That would be a great start. Follow me on Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram. Pick up my sci-fi novels the Herokiller series and The Earthborn Trilogy.
Metro
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Metro
The Last Of Us 3 suffers new blow as Naughty Dog admit to second secret game
The makers of The Last Of Us are working a second new game that doesn't seem to be a sequel and is by the creative director of Mavel's Avengers. It's now five years since Naughty Dog has released a brand new game. That means they haven't launched anything entirely new on the PlayStation 5, just remakes like The Last Of Us Part 1. They did announce Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet last year, but they didn't say when it would be out or show anything other than a few seconds of gameplay. The assumption is that Intergalactic will be their next game, but studio head Neil Druckmann has revealed that he's also working on a second unannocued new game. Naughty Dog has said before that they're making 'multiple' new single-player games at the moment, but there's no clue as to what they are. However, whatever this second title is it's very unlikely to be The Last Of Us Part 3, because Druckmann says he is not the director. Druckmann has been inconsistent when discussing The Last Of Us Part 3, at times implying it has little chance of ever being made and at other times admitting he has an outline for the story. Sony would no doubt love a third game, but Naughty Dog's fame and level of success appears to give them the freedom to do whatever they want, including cancelling plans for The Last Of Us Online. Druckmann's comments were made as part of a Press X to Continue podcast, where he revealed that, 'there's another game that's being worked on at Naughty Dog where I am more of a producer role.' 'I get to mentor and watch this other team, and give feedback and be the executive in the room,' he added. Unless he feels it's something Sony has forced upon the studio, it seems very unlikely that Druckmann would take such a back seat role for The Last Of Us Part 3, considering he was a director on the first two games (and heavily involved in the TV show). His comments give no clue as to what this secret game is but back in March movie insider DanielRPK suggested that Naughty Dog has a second game underway, that's not The Last Of Us Part 3, and is being led by Shaun Escayg. More Trending That matches very closely with what Druckmann said, with DanielRPK suggesting that the new game has already been in development for three years (a triple-A game usually needs at least five years nowadays). Escayg started as an animator, before directing half-sequel Uncharted: The Lost Legacy and becoming creative director for Marvel's Avengers and then The Last Of Us Part 1 (as that implies, he left and then rejoined Naughty Dog). Although there have been rumours of a remake, Naughty Dog has stated multiple times that it is done with the Uncharted franchise, with reports that Sony has been trying, so far unsuccessfully, to get other studios to work on it instead. That's where the solid rumours dry up but there has been fan talk for some time now that Naughty Dog is working on a new fantasy IP, possibly one involving dragons. There's little evidence for that, but if the new game has been in development for three years, that could be the source of those rumours… Email gamecentral@ leave a comment below, follow us on Twitter, and sign-up to our newsletter. To submit Inbox letters and Reader's Features more easily, without the need to send an email, just use our Submit Stuff page here. For more stories like this, check our Gaming page. MORE: Hideo Kojima's Metal Gear spiritual successor won't be out this decade MORE: Anno 117: Pax Romana hands-on preview – building a better Britain MORE: You can play Switch 2 at Gamescom 2025 as Nintendo confirms attendance
