Weird AF Fan Film Reimagines 'the Legend of Zelda' as a Badass Chinese Gangster Movie

It ain't safe on the streets of Hyrule.

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Fan films have been around for decades. They used to be crude, low budget affairs that did little but satisfy fans’ desires to their heroes in motion. But with the advent of cheap digital technology and the fact that most nerd properties are not getting made into films eventually, it means we get some weird, cool alternate takes on characters.

This one might be the strangest though. What do you think of when you think of The Legend of Zelda? High fantasy, magic and quests, right? Not Chinese gangster movies. However, that’s exactly what this new webseries does. Youtube channel Dayside TV have released a trailer for their Zelda series, with he first episode set to drop today. It reimagines the classic Nintendo game as the sort crime movie John Woo used to make in the early 90s. It’s an unorthodox approach, and it doesn’t quite work, but we gotta give them props for trying. 

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