The Legend of Zelda (film)

The Legend of Zelda: The Adventure of Link is a 2002 fantasy-adventure film directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin. The sequel to The Legend of Zelda (1996),

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Pre-poduction
Immediately after finishing The Legend of Zelda, director Robert Zemeckis with help from James Keltie segued into directing a sequel. In late October 1997, Sony hired Paul Higgins to write a script of the film. On November 10, 1997, Universal Pictures announced a sequel for 2002. The film, originally envisioned as a live-action film with an action-adventure fantasy-drama tone, was intended to be developed by DreamWorks Pictures. Around the same time, Brian Grazer, founder of Imagine Entertainment, was bought out by ImageMovers, a studio which uses motion-capture technology to create three-dimensional CGI images of characters.

Tom Cruise described doing the motion-capture as physically demanding work: "A lot of running, jumping, falling, hitting, spinning. I wore a harness for, like, 85 percent of the movie. It was uncomfortable." After spending six weeks outfitted in a special sensor-equipped performance-capture suit while simultaneously performing Link's lines, Cruise's voice sounded too mature for the character and was dubbed over by that of 12-year-old newcomer Seth R. Dusky.

Filming, animation and visual effects
Over 450 graphic designers were chosen for the project, the largest team ever assembled for a Sony Pictures Imageworks-produced movie as of 2002. Designers at Imageworks generated new animation tools for facial, body and cloth design especially for the movie, and elements of keyframe animation were incorporated into the film in order to capture the facial expressions of the actors and actresses. The mead hall battle scene near the beginning of the film, among others, required numerous props that served as additional markers; these markers allowed for a more accurate manifestation of a battlefield setting as the battle progressed. However, the data being collected by the markers slowed down the studios' computer equipment and five months were spent developing a new save/load system that would increase the efficiency of the studios' resources. To aid in the process of rendering the massive quantities of information, the development team used cached data. In the cases that using cached data was not possible, the scenes were rendered using foreground occlusion, which involves the blurring of different overlays of a single scene in an attempt to generate a single scene film.

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 * Main article: The Legend of Zelda: The Adventure of Link (soundtrack)

The music for The Legend of Zelda: The Adventure of Link was composed and conducted by Alan Silvestri. A soundtrack was released December 17, 2002. Silvestri was largely responsible for the production of the soundtrack album, although actresses Robin Wright Penn and Idina Menzel performed several songs in the soundtrack's score.

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