In 2022, Machine Gun Kelly and wife Megan Fox dressed as Link and Princess Zelda from The Legend of Zelda for Halloween.

 

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Now that Shigeru Miyamoto has announced that he's developing a live-action movie based on the best-selling Nintendo game, MGK wants to play Link, People reported.

MGK, real name Colson Baker, shared an Instagram story with the caption, “if I don't play Link we have a problem.”

Digital graphic artist BossLogic also shared a post on X (formerly Twitter), with a digital rendering of Baker as Link, with the caption, “Here you guys go. @machinegunkelly as link…”

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The project is still in its early development, with Miyamoto working with Avi Arad. However, that hasn't stopped fans from fan-casting the movie on the internet.

Euphoria star Hunter Schafer has expressed her interest in playing Princess Zelda.

According to Nintendo's statement: “By producing visual contents of Nintendo IP by itself, Nintendo is creating new opportunities to have people from around the world to access the world of entertainment which Nintendo has built, through different means apart from its dedicated game consoles.”

“By getting deeply involved in the movie production with the aim to put smiles on everyone’s faces through entertainment, Nintendo will continue its efforts to produce unique entertainment and deliver it to as many people as possible,” the news release concluded.

The Legend of Zelda live-action adaptation does not have a production or release date announced yet.