Nintendo has some strange company policies, and this seems to be no exception. According to Adam Conover on The Serf Times podcast and later relayed by Eurogamer, Nintendo canceled multiple projects after one of them, a live-action Zelda series for Netflix, had leaked.
Not only did Nintendo cancel the Zelda Netflix series, but they also canceled a Star Fox claymation collaboration project with CollegeHumour that had been in the works around the same time.
Why you never knew of this?
Nintendo never acknowledged either project actually happening. In fact, 2 weeks after the Zelda Netflix leak happened, Nintendo said that the reports of the leak had been incorrect.
But Adam Conover said that “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 programme to adapt these things”.
Personally I would have loved to see a Legend of Zelda series. And no not by the likes of the series that aired in the Super Mario Bros Show or Captain N: The Game Master. (Which I did like). But more in the line of;
Till this day I would have loved this to be real … or even if they partnered with Ember Lab;
