I need to hear a few more details before I can leave this zone of caution, but this is my baby that we're talking about here, and I can't shake the worries just yet. I am already in the brace position for the announcement that Tom Holland has been cast as Link, but this movie could provide the perfect career booster for someone that we've never seen before - how exciting would that be!? I completely understand the financial motive for filling the cast with big names to pull in the punters, but I would really, really like to see a bunch of new, up-and-coming actors take the lead(s) on this one. Come on, Nintendo and Sony is definitely going to throw enough money at it to make this a reality.

An overabundance of greenscreen and The Volume (which I am rapidly seeing as the bane of Hollywood) would be enough to make this look like a steaming pile of Chuchu, but if the filmmakers can build sets, shoot on location and make the most of the real world, then I think this has the potential to be really rather pretty. Regardless of just how beautiful some of those animated renders of Hyrule on the internet may be, I am excited to see what form a live-action Hyrule takes. But, it seems that live-action is what we are going to be stuck with, so I am trying to see the bright side. I had my fingers crossed for Studio Ghibli to step in on this one, I really did. 'Brace position' - Jim Norman, staff writer Image: Nintendo Hopefully it's not all grimdark with fairies and choirs.

The Zelda series is a far broader canvas, though, and there are just so many ways live-action could get it 'wrong.' After a very long career, Avi Arad has some winners under his belt (I've got huge affection for various films with his name attached, the Raimi Spider-Men and the original Blade in particular), but he also feels like an odd choice.

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