Nintendo has announced the live-action The Legend of Zelda movie launches on March 26, 2027.
Confirmation comes from the recently released Nintendo Today! app, which was unveiled during the Nintendo Direct March 2025. No other information on the movie was revealed.
Video game legend Shigeru Miyamoto spilled the beans on the company’s latest news push as a last-minute stinger during the showcase. This all-in-one phone application comes with a variety of perks for die-hard Nintendo fans to be aware of.
This hub for all things Nintendo serves as a daily calendar and news machine to drip feed information directly to players as it happens. Miyamoto used the example that, after the Nintendo Switch 2 Direct premieres next week, fans will be able to log into the Nintendo Today app to catch all of the updates, with more news arriving “daily” from there.
But the big news has started early, with the Zelda movie release date confirmation sure to drive plenty of fans to download the app hoping for similarly seismic announcements in the days to come. It was telling that Nintendo’s news app was first with the Zelda movie news, ahead of the company’s own social media channels.
Nintendo and Sony Pictures first made the massive announcement about a live-action The Legend of Zelda movie in November 2023, 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.
We know next to nothing about the movie itself, though. Ball has said he wants it to be “live action Miyazaki,” referencing beloved filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, the director of Studio Ghibli and creator of myriad anime classics such as My Neighbor Totoro, Howl’s Moving Castle, and Spirited Away. Ball still plans for the Zelda movie to be a “serious” adaptation that feels real, and has made clear he doesn’t intend to use much motion capture in the “grounded” film.
Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.
