APRIL FOOLS OR NO APRIL FOOLS?

Placing a drawing pin on a colleague’s seat, making a prank call, wearing a funny wig, informing a friend their entire family has perished in an accident – all classic April Fool’s Day gags.

But producing a high-budget action-packed CG-heavy trailer for a movie version of The Legend of Zelda? That’s a whole new level of commitment

Kudos, then, to our friends at IGN.com, for we wonder if they’ve done just that – putting out a call for actors with green vests, long hair and pointy ears (possibly) and creating from scratch a full-length trailer for an imagined Zelda movie.

We’d be surprised to learn that IGN had entered the motion picture production business, but the trailer is so convincing that we’ve found ourselves constantly checking the date in our diaries as well as the release date touted on the trailer – April 1st 2009 – and wondering if it’s not just strange timing…

The Legend of Zelda franchise, which began in 1986 with Shigeru Miyamoto‘s classic videogame, has spawned an animated series and a short-lived line of comics, but a movie version has never been forthcoming despite much fan speculation.

Until that changes this trailer is a suitable substitute, and, it’s worth pointing out, probably better than anything Uwe Boll could do with the franchise… So is this the real thing? Check it out now and make up your own minds!