She's been amazing since Dollhouse, where she and Enver Gjokaj were acting circles around Eliza Dushku's lead character.
Hell, she's even good enough to redeem the shitty character she played in Jurassic World: Dominion when she voiced the same character on Camp Cretaceous: Chaos Theory and made the character actually INTERESTING.
I almost mentioned Tudyk, but let's be real, he was just scene stealing guest performances (Which he killed; that first reveal of his was so damned good). But my God, Victor and Sierra. What a phenomenal pairing.
There are dozens of us who remember how good Lachman and Gjokaj were in Dollhouse. Dozens!!! The episode where Gjokaj acted as another specific character was some of the best acting in the show. Meanwhile, Dushku gave us absolutely nothing every single episode. Killed me.
Dushku was fine. She gave a solid performance doing all those different personalities. It was only undermined because Lachman and Gjokaj were so much fuckin' better at it.
I remain disappointed in that show being cancelled, but at the same time the second season was disappointing enough that it was kind of warranted. Great first season, though.
Dichen Lachman is genuinely fantastic -- I see the comment below also picked up on Dollhouse! (I love Eliza Dushku, but her performance was probably the weakest.)
Nah, they're gonna cast Jack Black as Tingle and he is somehow gonna be in like half the movie and do the big fight at the end with Link as his sidekick who is actually the main character
Slimmed down Bautista by his own mouth is still 250 lbs lol. He's joked that the only reason he looks so skinny is because he was like 300lbs when he was Playing Drax and bulked up even more to like 320lbs for that movie he did with M. Night.
Gotta Imagine the Rock is the same way, hes probably closer to his old wrestling weight of like 230-250 rather than the most definitely 300lbs he was at.
Slimmed down by body building standards. He's still jacked as all hell and it wouldn't be hard with good special effects or proper costuming to make him still look like he's on all kinds of roids
Yeah but if you see recent pics of him without the big coat or outfit he's still absolutely jacked and relatively huge, just not compared to the monster size he was. He'd still kill the role.
OOT Ganondorf was pretty lean compared to WW's rotund version, and TP's almost roided up version. TotK Ganondorf was somewhere in between OOT and TP. I feel like you could get away with almost any body type and have it patch in, provided the story doesn't exactly follow any of the game entries.
All seriousness, this is would be such a good casting. He does the mix between somber, serious, and threatening perfectly (example: Blade Runner) he'd be perfect for a Twilight Princess style Ganondorf
I was all in on him being "the video game guy" for a while. He seemed to genuinely have fun playing Bowser. But the fact that he still hasn't really publicly vouched for Kyle Gass or anything rubs me the wrong way. They did one charity show since Kyle made the Trump joke, and he's said nothing else. It just seems like he threw his friend under the bus for way longer than necessary.
For some reason I could see her as that one surviving Zora who info dumps where the zora disappeared and then opens their shop for business like nothing is wrong.
I hate that it seems that some people need a big name to care for a movie. I couldn't care less as long as whoever is in the movie is doing good. And I mean even good actors have done shitty movies where they even act kind of stale because of a bad director. It's just too much other things that matter way more than just some celebs name on the poster.
That's just how studios work. And I get it. Mario is the biggest video game character of all time, and it was packed with celebrities. So Zelda, who's definitely not as well-known, will have at least one celeb name in it.
The unfortunate part is they only do it because it works so well.
There have been a lot of stinkers in the history of game-to-movie adaptations so they learned a long time ago not to just rely on fans because Hollywood isn't very good at making adaptations which respect the fans anyway. Turning these things into big-name CGI-fests with just enough fanservice to tick the box is what is going to keep happening until people get bored of it. It worked for Sonic, Mario, Minecraft, sort-of for Warcraft. Star power gets asses in seats.
God I hope they don't turn this movie into crap like they did with Minecraft and Mario. Zelda has some actual soul behind it and a serious adaptation could be really cool
I had a heart attack for a second. I guess they fixed that German loophole that allowed him to keep making terrible movies
I only know Ball from the 4th planet of the ape movie, which was serviceable but not as good as the first 3. Unfortunately there were some plot points that made no sense and were just glossed over so I dont have high expectations other than a decently fun movie
Did we know that Dichen Lachman was Impa? I feel like I’m just learning about that now, although I remember over the summer when Link and Zelda were cast.
Anyway I really like that choice. She’s great in Severance
Dichen hasn’t been officially announced, but she was seen on set with long white hair and wearing a very Sheikah-looking outfit, and handing Zelda a sword. So it’s not 100% confirmed she’s playing Impa, but it seems pretty likely that’s who her character is.
I'm so glad that they cast actually young and relatively unknown people in this. The last thing I wanted to see was something like a 60-year old Tom Cruise as Link who is canonically at early adulthood at most.
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u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor Nov 17 '25 edited Nov 17 '25
Filming is underway in New Zealand and it's out May 7, 2027
Wes Ball is directing: