Could Zelda finally be coming to Netflix?

Rumours have once again emerged that a big budget Zelda adaptation is coming to Netflix, and it could be revealed next month.

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Talk of a Legend of Zelda series on Netflix goes all the way back to 2015, when supposedly it was in the ‘early stages’ of development and being positioned as ‘Game of Thrones for a family audience’.

Like so many rumours of Nintendo film and TV projects it seemed to come to nothing though, until rumours this week that Adi Shankar, producer of the well-received Castlevania animated show (and one of the figures at the centre of Apu’s alleged axing from The Simpsons) is in talks to work on the project.



On Monday he posted a message on Instagram saying he was ‘working with an iconic Japanese gaming company to adapt one of their iconic video game series into a series’.


As incredibly vague as that it is The Wrap claims to have learnt that the series in question is The Legend Of Zelda.

There’s no indication whether it’d be a live action or animated show, and since Shankar has worked on both it’s impossible to guess which it is.

Given all the fantasy elements in the average Zelda game a live action show would be extremely expensive, but there has been something of an arms race lately with fantasy shows on TV – started by Game of Thrones but leading to a number of would-be rivals including a new Lord of the Rings show by Amazon.

At the moment though all this is speculation, but unlike the 2015 rumour Shankar has promised to reveal what he’s doing on November 16 at 1pm. (He doesn’t say which 1pm but if that’s L.A. time it’d be 8pm on Friday.)

As difficult as it might be Zelda is theoretically one of the easier Nintendo properties to turn into a traditional TV show, although all there’s ever been so far is a cheap and forgettable cartoon series from 1989.

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