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Weekly Ketchup Special Edition: The Legend of Zelda trailer hits the web

by Greg Dean Schmitz | April 01, 2008

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This week, Greg Dean Schmitz has some major scoops on movies in development, and we're not waiting until Friday to tell you about them. Back to Article

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reavus4983 writes:
on Apr 01 2008 12:30 PM

Kingdom Come WOULD be pretty awesome...

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Knockout Ned writes:
on Apr 01 2008 12:35 PM

ummm this is all a joke right?

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onepiece226 writes:
on Apr 01 2008 12:38 PM

It's mostly a joke, April 1st?? cmon, The Titanic 2 one is a dead giveaway! But the only story that seems to be right is the Legend of Zelda movie, The trailer looks so real, and I know that a fan made movie was in the works, so it may be it!

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NotoriA writes:
on Apr 01 2008 12:38 PM

Very good.

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The Great One writes:
on Apr 01 2008 12:42 PM

Damn I completely forgot it was April Fools Day....for a minute I was like, Leo wants to do Titanic 2 seriously?

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whiskeyriver writes:
on Apr 01 2008 12:44 PM

Wacka Wacka Wacka.

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ManofStee1 writes:
on Apr 01 2008 12:57 PM

Entertaining Zelda trailer, but why must you taunt the nerds with that Kingdom Come blurb? A movie like that (only all cgi pl0x) would be like heaven on Earth. I mean... Clint Eastwood as Batman? Awesome.

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alsanali writes:
on Apr 01 2008 01:01 PM

I've never been as hyped for a movie that doesn't exist as I am for Zelda.

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Poor_Frisco writes:
on Apr 01 2008 01:24 PM

This was great... i love April Fool's day

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Tyrant writes:
on Apr 01 2008 01:30 PM

I should have picked up that this was all a joke sooner.....damned april fools day
I know this was a joke but....Titanic 2, Vin Diesel as Thrall? Don't give Hollywood any ideas.

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w@velength writes:
on Apr 01 2008 01:33 PM

I once heard some moron on here say that Nicholas Cage would make a good Link.

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TheIceGhost writes:
on Apr 01 2008 01:36 PM

Tommy Lee Jones as the aging Superman = WHAT? That's the worst fake casting I've ever heard!!

Clint Eastwood as the aging Batman/Bruce Wayne = OH HOLY HELL! YES! Best idea EVER!

They should have played up TITANTIC 2 as a prequel. Call it, "Jack's Landing" or something. That would have been a smidge more believable.

.. The Zelda thing is hilarious. I love when Link puts on his outfit only to see him rocking that flimsy and pointless cap.

People really went all out for April Fool's Day this year, huh?

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MM54 writes:
on Apr 01 2008 01:45 PM

That Zelda trailer is awesome. I know it's fake but still... amazing.

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ShopS-Mart writes:
on Apr 01 2008 01:50 PM

props to whoever made the zelda trailer...it had pretty good sound and graphics and overall production for being an april fools joke

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nordak writes:
on Apr 01 2008 01:57 PM

That Zelda trailer looked like a believable Uwe Boll version...awesome.

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CMoney356 writes:
on Apr 01 2008 01:58 PM

Oh my god i fell like such an idiot for not realizing this was a joke sooner. Plus, I almost threw up when I read the Shining remake thing. HOW DID I NOT REALIZE THIS!!!

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nghisus writes:
on Apr 01 2008 02:01 PM

Happy April 1st! How subtle.

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alsanali writes:
on Apr 01 2008 02:05 PM

It really is a sad state of affairs in Hollywood when something like Titanic 2 isn't immediately recognized by everyone as a joke...

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xtremecnc writes:
on Apr 01 2008 02:17 PM

errrr the Britannic was sunk in the mediterranean sea by a mine! no where near titanic- lets hope they get the ending right!

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RT-Matchity writes:
on Apr 01 2008 02:32 PM

In reply to this comment (#1664740)
xtremencnc,

We meant that the section of the Britannic that was hit by the mine roughly corresponds to the section of the Titanic that was struck by the iceberg. We'll change the language to be less confusing.

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Dark Knight Enthusiast writes:
on Apr 01 2008 02:38 PM

holy crap i feel completely retarded now!!!! hahahahaha

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nathanpoitras writes:
on Apr 01 2008 02:59 PM

If not for the Titanic 2 headline, I probably would have bought this.

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twinsfan2715 writes:
on Apr 01 2008 03:06 PM

wow i actually thought this was real. really dumb, but real. the zelda trailer looks sweet and the Kingdom Come idea just gave me the chills (except i wasn't a fan of the casting)

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mberko1 writes:
on Apr 01 2008 03:12 PM

you have to be a frickin moron/retard to think even for a second there would be a titanic 2. Shame on you, and your retarded offspring

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salsafish writes:
on Apr 01 2008 03:31 PM

Not sure if putting Titanic first was brilliant or not, but it definitely got a grin out of me. Titanic meets Resident Evil: WATERLOGGED. These animated corpses are frightening, hungry, and aesthetically revolting. Oh Leo, you'll live on inside me forever...*gnaws skull*

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jokerboy1991 writes:
on Apr 01 2008 03:32 PM

Its a good joke.

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hewpot writes:
on Apr 01 2008 03:37 PM

zelda seems real(cept looks like a straight to dvd), i mean, who would spend all the time to make that fake trailer just for an april fools day joke? so... yeah

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JamesEarl writes:
on Apr 01 2008 03:39 PM

Did they really need this many jokes? First off, are we really supposed to be stupid to believe some of this, especially the Zelda movie when earlier they reported it as a joke? Now are they gonna have a response tomorrow telling us that this is all a fake or just leave it alone and have fanboys wondering whatever came of the Kingdom Come movie?

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kissman24 writes:
on Apr 01 2008 03:55 PM

When I read the headline, I scanned to the end of the article because it made no sense on soooo many levels! Good try, tho!

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greg_dean_schmitz writes:
on Apr 01 2008 04:04 PM

In reply to this comment (#1664875)
[quote] Did they really need this many jokes? [/quote]

Well... when I wrote the piece, it was actually just 5 stories (Shining, Cloverfield, Warcraft, Kingdom Come, Sopranos), but we then added the Titanic / Zelda stories because they were great too, even if I didn't come up with them myself, and at the same time... it would have been a shame to ditch the 5 original stories that I already wrote (over the weekend, hee). : )

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DreadPirateRanda writes:
on Apr 01 2008 04:05 PM

this was good, i was fairly sure it was a joke going into it (I mean, a Titanic sequel? the boat sank that's pretty final) but still very funny, some of them even a little believable.

i especially love the Zelda trailer; it looks real, up until he puts on the actual video game costume complete with stupid pointy hat.

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Ruckas356 writes:
on Apr 01 2008 04:36 PM

actually a zelda movie would be awsome dude. like totally cowabunga dude!

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Bob* writes:
on Apr 01 2008 04:37 PM

of ocurse is an april's fool joke. beginning with the "WEEKLY ketchup"? weekly in tuesday?! yeah right

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Odo19 writes:
on Apr 01 2008 04:53 PM

Holy ****!! I am almost fell for this. If not for Titanic 2 I probably would have. I almost had an aneurism when I read about the Shining 2.

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tayrank18 writes:
on Apr 01 2008 06:26 PM

In reply to this comment (#1664731)
agreed!
god....first april fools joke that actually got me today

thats most likely a bad thing Hollywood!

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Drunken Mastermind writes:
on Apr 01 2008 06:27 PM

The only fake news that doesn't seem completly and absolutely horrible(even though The fake LOZ trailer does actually look like a real trailer for a real movie. A movie that would probably be hilariously bad, but still a real movie) would be Kingdom Come. Clint Eastwood was an aging Batman would be the best movie news EVER. The fake "Shining" remake was HORRIBLE, even for fake news. I like Justin Long, but Jesus Christ!

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a.n.t. writes:
on Apr 01 2008 06:29 PM

the trailer looked really good and looks alot better then other garbage that's been out that's actually real.

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darkfan writes:
on Apr 01 2008 06:43 PM

I spaced april fools until i read that the climactic scene in the new shining would be on a skateboard.

It's not funny, because i bet that bastard would agree to do it too.

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greg_dean_schmitz writes:
on Apr 01 2008 06:46 PM

[quote] I spaced april fools until i read that the climactic scene in the new shining would be on a skateboard. [/quote]

And that was a typo ! I meant to type SNOWboard, hee !

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Warheart1188 writes:
on Apr 01 2008 06:47 PM

Awesome jokes. I saw the Zelda trailer at IGN and laughed my *** off.

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onepiece226 writes:
on Apr 01 2008 07:57 PM

I think it's impossible that people would waste all that money and time to make a fake trailer! I believe that the real April Fool's joke for The Legend of Zelda......is that it's real

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T45Red writes:
on Apr 01 2008 08:04 PM

LOL Oh man, that was funny. My friend told me that a Zelda movie was coming out as well as Titanic 2, and I thought he was joking around until he sent me the link here. I watched that horrid [although well done considering I now know it's a joke] trailer for it and still thought it was real XD I believed your Zelda story, then after I read all of The Shining story, I clued in that it was April Fools :P Wow, I feel dumb. Not really my fault, just I would actually believe Hollywood would do this kind of stuff to movies nowadays. Tisk tisk. That Titanic 2 trailer [which I've seen before] is still really funny though. Had a good laugh reading that... This is long.

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iakobos writes:
on Apr 01 2008 09:09 PM

You know for any joke to work it has to sound half way plausible. The fact that these sound like something Hollywood would realy do is what's truely scary.

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The_Duckling writes:
on Apr 01 2008 09:13 PM

wow...up until the Sopranos thing you had me. GOD what a ****ty trailer for zelda, but so well done i thot it was going to be another eragon

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CometCowboy writes:
on Apr 01 2008 10:15 PM

Cloverfield 2: Smoke Hawaii Bigger cast=Box office bomb?
This is more like an indirect prequel/sequel to Lost.

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homer42016 writes:
on Apr 01 2008 10:16 PM

Thank goodness it's April Fools man, because when I first read this post and had forgotten about that, I was horrified to read about the "Shining" remake. That would have been so god-awful.

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windors2 writes:
on Apr 01 2008 10:17 PM

The trailer for Zelda WAS pretty weak, but I have to admit that it really depressed me knowing that there probably won't be a REAL trailer for the Legend of Zelda any time soon. I think someone needs to step up and take on the project.

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SPfan79 writes:
on Apr 01 2008 10:33 PM

"Capitalizing on the popularity of the "street dance" movie genre recently, Six Flags has rumored to be looking for a deal for their elderly dancing mascot to get his own movie."

I think that's my favorite joke, but they all made me laugh out loud.

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N720MF writes:
on Apr 02 2008 12:20 AM

lawl

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skingus12 writes:
on Apr 02 2008 12:51 AM

I actually think the soprano's sounds like a pretty cool idea, and I would absolutely love a Zelda movie.

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tallaght24 writes:
on Apr 02 2008 02:31 AM

Legend Of Zelda?,.......I WISH! Come on, thats not true. Nothing on imdb or wikipedia!

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dsence writes:
on Apr 02 2008 05:36 AM

In reply to this comment (#1665171)
You better be wrong, that zelda trailer insulted my intellogence. Play on words intended, for whatever reason

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dsence writes:
on Apr 02 2008 05:38 AM

In reply to this comment (#1665171)
You better be wrong, that zelda trailer insulted my intellogence. Play on words intended, for whatever reason

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noalarms writes:
on Apr 02 2008 10:39 AM

Titanic 2: A New Voyage!! The funniest thing I have ever heard! Talk about a career ending role. This is the best movie joke ever.

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popcornharvest writes:
on Apr 02 2008 11:11 AM

As a big fan of the games, I was very impressed by that trailer. Of course for a real movie this would be terrible, but for a joke I thought this was really great. They captured the Zelda-by-Uwe Boll trailer very well and was the best april fools joke I saw on the internet this year imo.

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stevedubbleu writes:
on Apr 02 2008 12:17 PM

Even if it is April fools day, it's not funny to joke about a legend of zelda movie! I'm gonna be pissed off till it actually happens now.

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Coyote22 writes:
on Apr 02 2008 02:29 PM

Actually, I did hear rumors (6 or 7 years ago) that they were considering a Titanic 2- same ship/catastrophe only that the story would be told from different characters' perspectives but with some scenes to include Jack and Rose.

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Pumpkinking14 writes:
on Apr 02 2008 03:47 PM

after watching that Zelda trailer, my only thought was "This had better be a joke," because I love the Zelda series and that trailer looked worse than a Uwe Boll flick.

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greg_dean_schmitz writes:
on Apr 02 2008 05:54 PM

In reply to this comment (#1664704)
Tommy Lee Jones as the aging Superman = WHAT? That's the worst fake casting I've ever heard!!

I was inspired to think of Tommy Lee Jones as the aging, tired, haggard Superman of "Kingdom Come" after seeing "No Country for Old Men", and the connection between Jones being from West Texas, and Clark Kent's roots as a "farm kid from Kansas." With age, I was thinking Superman/Clark might turn more "countryish", especially since when we first see him that's exactly what he is doing... running a farm. Plus few people do tired/haggard like Tommy Lee Jones, but he can also become very fierce and bad *** too.

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iammusic17 writes:
on Apr 02 2008 08:04 PM

I saw the zelda trailer and almost died. I've been telling people they need to do a zelda movie forever and i was so excited when i heard about it and then when I saw it I was sick to my stomach. I have never been so relieved to realize it's april fools

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TheIceGhost writes:
on Apr 02 2008 08:06 PM

In reply to this comment (#1666682)
I can't deny that Jones can do all the things you've just said, Greg Dean Schmitz, but c'mon... really? Tommy Lee Jones as SUPERMAN? Baaaaah.

But I still say Clint Eastwood as old Batman is, quite possibly, one of the coolest casting ideas 'ever'. Maybe they should make a Batman Beyond flick and give ol' Clint a call... :)

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greg_dean_schmitz writes:
on Apr 03 2008 04:34 PM

In reply to this comment (#1666776)
"I can't deny that Jones can do all the things you've just said, Greg Dean Schmitz, but c'mon... really? Tommy Lee Jones as SUPERMAN? Baaaaah."

That's what people said about Heath Ledger as the Joker.

Thanks for the kudos on the Clint/Batman idea though ! : )

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Trufire writes:
on Apr 03 2008 10:43 PM

Damn you RottenTomatoes. Damn you to Hell! I was so stoked for the Zelda movie and then when I come down to read comments I see that it was indeed, an april fools joke. Uggg. Now I want someone to really make this movie.

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Lemonball679 writes:
on Apr 08 2008 10:15 AM

I have to say that the most devastating peice on info on this page is definatly the Shining remake/sequel! OMG why??? the movie is perfectly great as it is, we dont need some money hungry airhead film makers to come and bugger it up for us. It is totally unecessary, i can allready hear the words "box office bomb" echoing around in my head, how depressing. Whats worse is that thier ideas to "update" the film are horrendous. an extreme sports person, dawky teenage brother, ghost of Jack Torrence!!!!! i'm sorry but who agrees that this would be a huge mistake? i just hope they realise what they are doing and scrap it before it's too late!

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