The streaming service that brought us Orange is the new black is reportedly diving into video games for his next live action series. The Wall Street Journal reports that a series is based on The Legend of Zelda series is “in the early stages of development” at Netflix, according to an unnamed “person familiar with the matter.”
The logsource describes the show, which is reportedly still looking for writers, as a “Game of Thrones for a family audience”, with a “humorous, kid-friendly tone”.
Link, Zelda and their cronies last graced TV screens in a 1989 animated series that The Super Mario Bros. Super show for one season in 1989. Rumors of a Zelda film have popped up occasionally since then, but they never came to fruition.
Since licensing some animated shows and the disastrous Super Mario Bros. movie in the late ’80s and early ’90s, Nintendo has generally pretty much got the idea of putting its characters on TV pretty much under control. Apart from the long-running pokemon anime, the last Nintendo property to become an American TV show Kirby: Right back to Ya!an animated children’s show that ran on Fox in the early 2000s.