Nintendo’s Zelda Netflix series was allegedly canceled after leaks, a new report says. The leak being referenced here is the 2015 leak in The Wall Street Journal, where it was said that Nintendo and Netflix were teaming up to create a TV series on the blockbuster franchise. This never materialized, of course, but now we may know why. A US Comedian, Adam Conover, claims that this was due to the leak. Conover went on The Serf Times News podcast and shared the news.
“I worked at CollegeHumor and we had a secret project where we were going to make a claymation version of StarFox with Nintendo. I know this because Shigeru Miyamoto came to our office, and I remember that because I asked my boss if I could be in the office that day – ‘cos it was the weekend – because I just wanted to watch Shigeru Miyamoto walk by. He told me no and I’m still mad at him…
Then, a month later, suddenly there were reports Netflix wasn’t going to do its Legend of Zelda anymore. I was like ‘what happened?’ And then I heard from my boss we weren’t doing our Star Fox anymore. I was like ‘what happened?’. He was like, ‘someone at Netflix leaked the Legend of Zelda thing, they weren’t supposed to talk about it, Nintendo freaked out… and they pulled the plug on everything, the entire program to adapt these things.”
Very interesting. So Nintendo planned to bring Zelda to Netflix as a series, but in response to a leak, dropped the entire program to develop these projects. It’s sad, but it’s hard to imagine The Legend of Zelda on Netflix actually being good, even if it is Netflix. Let’s keep our sights on Breath of the Wild 2, the next Zelda game set to come out later this year, and not dwell on what could have been.