[quote=@BangoSkank]




You don't cast Ron Perlman as Link.  You don't cast Christopher Walken as Zelda.  I would generally not want to see Famous Actor/Personality/Musician cast unless it was just a virtually perfect fit.  I don't want Beyonce Zelda because that would be Beyoncé, not Zelda.  I wouldn't even want someone in her level of celebrity in the film because regardless of the role it would be a distraction.  Same with Chris Pratt or Chris Hemsworth.  Don't cast them as Gorons or Gannondorf or whatever.  Just don't cast them.
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The reality of movies is that you need to sell to an audience and despite what people on the internet think, movies and shows based on source material are not made to sell things solely to that audience because that is not how money is made (and also they have every reason to believe that the people who complain the loudest will watch it anyway). This is why animated movies from studios and even Ghibli dubs cast actors that normies have heard of. This is why Chris Pratt is Mario and Jack Black is Bowser and this is why Sandra Bullock was in the Minions movie and why Benedict Cumberbatch was the Grinch and why Chris Evans was fuckin Buzz Lightyear. The only difference between a movie and a series is that a series is more likely to cast voice actors and not celebrities doing voice work, but even still in a movie you're going to have to expect a celebrity cast because that's how the business works. 

But obviously they're not going to do whatever hypothetical stunt casting that people say. They're not stupid but also if someone can't get past a celebrity actor in a voice performance then that's moreso on the individual. The only difference between casting, say, Daisy Ridley as Zelda or Emily O'Brien is that most people have heard of who Daisy Ridley is. No one should even assume 'Beyonce as Zelda' both because she's not exactly the first choice in most movies considering her blatant lack of a wide filmography and because there are way more obvious celebrities that I have to wonder why the first choice wouldn't be Taylor Swift. 

Video game movies are not hard to make anymore.


Anyway, One Piece Odyssey is pretty good