Shigeru Miyamoto announced on June 9, 2025 through Nintendo Japan’s social media channels that The Legend of Zelda movie is now delayed due to production reasons. The delay is relatively small by only six weeks.
“This is Miyamoto. For production reasons, we are changing the release date of the live-action film of The Legend of Zelda to May 7, 2027. It will be some weeks later than the release timing we originally announced, and we will take the extra time to make the film as good as it can be. Thank you for your patience.”
This comes as little surprise to Zelda fans, of course. Plenty of games in the franchise have been delayed in the past, with some of them by three years or more. Responses to the delay have been relatively positive. No further reasons were given for the delay, though some have noted that the previous release date of March 26, 2027 would have been direct competition with Godzilla x Kong: Supernova, which opens the same day, and the Sonic 4 movie, which releases only a week earlier on March 19 that same year. Others have noted that the Zelda movie appears to be scheduled in a previously vacant spot left behind by the upcoming Avengers: Secret Wars movie, which is now delayed to December 17, 2027.
Whatever reasons The Legend of Zelda movie is delayed for, we can only hope it’s for good ones. You can read more about what we know so far regarding the movie here.
