{"id":87219,"date":"2026-08-06T13:54:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T17:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=87219"},"modified":"2026-08-06T14:42:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T18:42:02","slug":"the-legend-of-zelda-live-action-movie-may-have-found-its-ganondorf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=87219","title":{"rendered":"The Legend Of Zelda Live-Action Movie May Have Found Its Ganondorf"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The live-action The Legend of Zelda movie from Sony Pictures and Nintendo has already cast its Zelda and Link, but what about all the other roles? A new report claims that Australian actor Uli Latukefu, best known for the TV series Young Rock, will play the villain, Ganondorf. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is according to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/kylebuchanan\/status\/2085391932738707714\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/kylebuchanan\/status\/2085391932738707714\">veteran Hollywood reporter Kyle Buchanan<\/a> of The New York Times. He said he&#8217;s &#8220;been hearing&#8221; that Latukefu got the role, but it&#8217;s not yet officially confirmed by the studio. <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/08\/legend-of-zelda-uli-latukefu-ganondorf-1237027872\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/08\/legend-of-zelda-uli-latukefu-ganondorf-1237027872\/\">Deadline<\/a> also reported on his casting, going on to say he made a multi-movie deal.<\/p>\n<figure data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-ref-id=\"1841552\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.core.image.showLightbox\" style=\"cursor: zoom-in\" height=\"601\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-06-at-1.35.27-PM-1.png?w=636\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1841552\" \/>Uli Latukefu could play Ganondorf. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In terms of confirmed casting, we already know that Bo Bragason is playing Zelda and Benjamin Evan Ainsworth is portraying Link. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/leaked-footage-from-sonys-live-action-legend-of-zelda-movie-emerges-showing-off-zelda-and-more\/1100-6536257\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/leaked-footage-from-sonys-live-action-legend-of-zelda-movie-emerges-showing-off-zelda-and-more\/1100-6536257\/\">Photos that leaked from set<\/a> appear to suggest that Severance actor Dichen Lachman may be playing Impa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The live-action The Legend of Zelda movie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/zelda-movie-gets-a-new-release-date-again\/1100-6539951\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/zelda-movie-gets-a-new-release-date-again\/1100-6539951\/\">releases in theaters on April 30, 2027<\/a> from director Wes Ball (The Maze Runner). \u00a0\u201cThe team is working hard to deliver the film to everyone as soon as possible. There\u2019s less than a year to go until release, so thank<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The live-action The Legend of Zelda movie from Sony Pictures and Nintendo has already cast its Zelda and Link, but what about all the other roles? A new report claims that Australian actor Uli Latukefu, best known for the TV series Young Rock, will play the villain, Ganondorf. This is according to veteran Hollywood reporter&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":87221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87219"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87222,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87219\/revisions\/87222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/87221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}