Nintendo put a simple name on its biggest theatrical swing in years. During today’s Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct, Sony and Nintendo’s live-action adaptation was confirmed with the title The Legend of Zelda — no subtitle attached.
That choice is intentional. Series creator and producer Shigeru Miyamoto told the Direct audience the bare title will make sense once audiences see the film, with more details still to come. The Wes Ball–directed movie remains dated for a worldwide theatrical release on April 30, 2027, after earlier calendar shifts that had briefly parked it in May.
Per Deadline’s same-day report, the film is co-financed by Nintendo and Sony Pictures Entertainment, with more than half of the financing from Nintendo, and produced by Miyamoto alongside Avi Arad. Bo Bragason stars as Zelda opposite Benjamin Evan Ainsworth as Link. Uli Latukefu plays Ganondorf, with Dichen Lachman, Yvonne Strahovski, Lydia Peckham, and the late Sam Neill also in the cast. T.S. Nowlin wrote the latest draft of the script.
For readers watching the Hyrule leap from console to multiplex, today’s Direct was less about a new moniker than a statement of confidence: after decades of false starts and a franchise that has sold well over a hundred million games, the movie is simply called what the series has always been called. April 2027 is now less than a year away.