THE FUSE

To this day, 40 years after the first Legend of Zelda came to the NES, Link has never uttered a word in any of the games. (Well, except in the CD-I games, but we don’t count those.) What started out as a limitation of early hardware grew into one of the Nintendo icon’s defining characteristics. Will the company stick to that for the upcoming live-action movie? I heavily suspect it won’t, though I agree with Majora’s Mask art director Takaya Imamura that the Hero of Time should be kept as quiet as possible.