Ah, IGN, you very nearly had us. Your trailer for a movie based on The Legend of Zelda almost -- almost -- pulled the wool over our young, naive eyes. In fact, this is probably the most impressive, sophisticated April Fools' prank we've witnessed for some time. What gave it away? Well, there's a sliiightly budget feel to some of this. Truth be told, we've seen more convincing Ganons at cosplay conventions, while some of the acting pretty much redefined "hammy."*
Goofy as it is, this is still darn excellent, and certainly more impressive than anything we could ever hope to cook up. So, let's see a show of hands: how many of you would queue around the block for tickets to this?
* Not that this prevented the Lord of the Rings trilogy from being taken seriously. Yes, yours truly is the only individual in the known universe not to enjoy that overwrought, nine-hour bore-fest.
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4-01-2008 @ 12:34PM
Keith said...
Troll sighting: Lord of the Rings... overwrought, nine-hour bore-fest.
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4-01-2008 @ 12:41PM
AnOffday said...
Holy crap. This looks awesome. I'm actually really disappointed that this is a joke.
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4-01-2008 @ 5:52PM
ArmorForVictor said...
yes IGN is evil. on a side note i wonder how much it cost IGN to do this all in favor of breaking every nintendo fanboy's heart.
4-01-2008 @ 12:48PM
Fululian said...
Ah and you noticed the sample of the weapon's clinging in the middle of the trailer - courtesy of warcraft II ?
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4-01-2008 @ 12:52PM
cosmo2389 said...
Oh... Wow, LOTR bored me to sleep as well... It was just...so...boring!!!!
As for the trailer Ganondorf does look, well, awfully cheesy and Link, on last check, has dirty blonde hair... Also all of the IGN labels didn't aid in it looking any more real...
But it was pretty good looking and the article's title almost had me fooled until I remembered it was April 1st, haha!
~cosmo2389
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4-01-2008 @ 12:52PM
Foodie_Monster said...
Ok, I hate April's Fools... STOP PLAYING WITH MY HEART!
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4-01-2008 @ 1:01PM
Dash said...
Next April 1st joke: A Mario movie with real actors in a modern city.....wait, that is (sadly) not a joke.....
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4-01-2008 @ 1:01PM
TigerC10 said...
This "trailer" has been around for years. It was a fan project.
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4-01-2008 @ 1:52PM
zelderman said...
wrong, diferent project. That was homemade, this was made by a real studio, just the movie won't be real.
4-01-2008 @ 4:00PM
Jay said...
It would probably be an OK movie, but as an april fools joke this was amazing.
There's just one glaring innaccuracy....Link is NOT right handed
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4-01-2008 @ 6:39PM
Pie Pants said...
Actually, he is right handed, but only in Twilight Princess, and only on the Wii version. :P
4-01-2008 @ 8:41PM
John B. said...
Link shall never be right handed. He was only that way in TP Wii because of technical reasons.
4-01-2008 @ 4:50PM
Mike said...
You're not the only one. I, as well, think the LOtR movies are a bore-fest.
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4-01-2008 @ 11:25PM
Mooga said...
Hey, it's better then the TV series. I still can't get more then 10 min in without smashing the TV to save my own life...
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4-01-2008 @ 11:44PM
manaman said...
Ahhhhhh! All these LotR movie haters! I must shield myself. I will go in the other room and watch the trailer for that awesome new "Zelda" movie that's coming out! . . . Oh, wait. Dang. :(
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4-02-2008 @ 7:52AM
ultima_omega said...
LOL that was lame. Link looks like a fool in that outfit. Thank god this is a joke.
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4-02-2008 @ 8:13AM
Johnny said...
You may all mock and say it's an obvious fake, but if Zelda had been made by Uwe Boll, a man responsible for many genuine feature length game to movie adaptations, it wouldn't have looked as good as this.
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4-02-2008 @ 6:46PM
The Theory said...
I was a LotR enjoyer-turned-hater. Oneday I was watching the DVD and suddenly realized that I never, ever want to see those bloody movies ever again.
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4-03-2008 @ 12:16AM
Christie said...
LOTR suxxxx. I was forced to see them all in the theaters with so-called friends. I almost suffocated myself with my giant popcorn bucket from boredom.
LMFAO I would most definitely see a Zelda movie if it came out! Why won't they make one!! ;-;
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4-03-2008 @ 2:24PM
Aluvendale said...
I'm so glad this is fake. It would probably destroy my love of the Zelda franchise. I could see an animated film working, but this is just ridiculous!
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