Trivia / The Legend of Zelda: The Sage of Darkness

• Acting for Two: Dan Hogan plays Link, the guard named "Lumpy", the king of Hyrule, a moblin, the voice of the Skull Kid, and also Dark Link.
  • Both Link and Zelda also have past versions of themselves. The desert battle also has several actors playing Ertegun's minions, in addition to their regular roles.
• Blooper: Quite a few minor mistakes, particularly the actors stumbling on their lines.
  • A full Blooper Reel can be found here.
• Cameo Prop: The sword Davik gives Link near the beginning is Sting. It can be seen clearly for a moment after Link takes out Ertegun's Mooks.
• Dueling Movies: With The Hero of Time.
• Edited for Syndication: The version uploaded on YouTube by the creators has some music tracks changed, due to copyright issues.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: The original, unedited version of the movie can only be found via torrent sites.
• No Budget: This movie roughly cost $10,000...and according to the crew, most of that went to buying pizza.
• Schedule Slip: The movie began production in 2006, but was not released until 2008 due to the busy schedules of the cast and crew.
  • This continues to the audio drama reboot. The creators set a schedule of one chapter a month in early 2012. As of February 2014, only three chapters have been released.
• Throw It In!: This is actually why Dan Hogan ended up voicing the Sage of Darkness instead of Davik's actor, Michael Gabriel. The original plan was to have Michael ADR his lines later on. But during the first day of shooting, Michael had a lot of trouble remembering his lines. It got to the point where an increasingly annoyed Dan Hogan opted to read for the Sage himself. The voice Hogan created for the character was immediately beloved by both himself and director Josh Dixon, leading to Dan voicing the Sage.
• What Could Have Been: The creators originally planned to make a full trilogy. In the second two movies, Davik would have gone on to form a cult of followers, and trained Kyrin as his successor. This would eventually have led to a full war between Hyrule and Davik's army. The creators eventually scrapped the sequels due to budget constraints and possible legal issues with the Zelda franchise.
  • An audio drama was in production around 2013, which would have reworked the full story of the unmade trilogy into an original series. Only three chapters were released before the series went quiet. In 2023, director Josh Dixon, responding to comments on YouTube, confirmed the audio drama was cancelled.
  • And before the audio drama, there was actually talks of making a Divorced Installment called Remnant of Shadows where all of the Zelda elements were drastically dropped, though there would be a few hints here and there. It got so far as a Facebook page with some demo tracks, and a preview sample of the movie's draft. IT then got retooled into the current audio drama.
  • There was also a website created for concepts of the retooling of the series, including unique lore, artwork and such. Sadly, the website has long gone defunct, with only (not working) snapshots on the Internet Archive proving that it existed.
• Writing by the Seat of Your Pants: Writer (and Link's actor) Dan Hogan had written about twenty pages of the script before filming began.