At the latest Nintendo Direct, a called Nintendo Today debuted, and it acts as a calendar and news feed for everything Mario, Zelda, Pikmin, and so on. You might think that sounds slight if you're not a Switch superfan, but the company immediately used the app to drop a release date for the hotly anticipated Legend of Zelda movie: March 26, 2027.

I feel like I've been hearing there's a Zelda movie on the horizon for about as long as I've understood human language, so having an authentic release date pinned is pretty surreal. As reported by , according to Hollywood influencer and leaker Daniel Richtman on the other side of a paywall, [[link]] the film's actors have signed on for three movies' worth of Hyrulean antics.

Anything unverified like this is obviously to be taken with mountains of salt, but it's making the rounds in the headlines regardless—and assuming these movies are any good, it's an exciting prospect. I admit my assumptions are doing some heavy lifting there, but a guy can dream, right?

To try and rassle Zelda's anime-inspired art style into live action is certainly a choice, and the games have never had such complex yarns that you'd need nine or more hours to spin them, but there's no way to pass judgment until we've gotten a look at the final cut. It's hard to imagine a version of this movie that isn't at least fun to watch, regardless of which Mario movie it resembles in terms of quality.

That's if it comes out at all, of course. There are plenty of other games with movies that seem to be perpetually in development: , , and , just to name a few. [[link]] And even though we've gotten enough decent adaptations to say that videogame films aren't inherently cursed, they still tend to be more often than not, and I can't say I've ever seen a truly exceptional one.

While you wait, there's plenty of Zelda-related to be had on PC, including a stunning fanmade of Majora's Mask, even as Nintendo tends to meet such passion projects with an . It's clear that enthusiasm for the series, which remains one of the most influential and acclaimed in the entire videogame [[link]] medium, is simply impossible to keep down. However this movie (or these movies) turn out, I doubt that will change.