Movies: The Super Mario Bros. Movie

[Taro Tsujimoto]

Illumination (HQ: Santa Monica, CA USA) and Nintendo Co., Ltd., (HQ: Kyoto Minami-ku; Representative Director and President: Tatsumi Kimishima) today announced a partnership to develop a movie starring the Mario character.

The project will be produced by Chris Meledandri, Founder and CEO of Illumination and Shigeru Miyamoto, Representative Director, Fellow of Nintendo.

The film will be co-financed by Universal Pictures and Nintendo and distributed theatrically worldwide by Universal Pictures.

News Release : Feb. 1, 2018

Well, it can't be any worse than this unmitigated disaster:

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[xtra]

I don’t know if Mario is the right franchise for a big screen adaption but they do have other properties that they could make into movies.

Legend of Zelda is the most obvious one,
Star Fox and Metroid

 

[Ozz]

I want a movie about (Root Beer) Tapper.

 

[MMC]

 

[LevelingSolo]

Casting solid...I think? Still don't know how well Mario will work in a film

 

[John Price]

Kevin Michael Richardson as Kamek
Sebastian Maniscalco as Spike

this is now worth watching

 

[John Price]

 

[RandV]

Live-action I would be highly skeptical on, but I think an animated Super Mario Bros could work great.

 

[Emperoreddy]

 

[Osprey]

I might be interested, but only if the animation is 8-bit and it ends in a cliffhanger.

 

[Oogie Boogie]

Charlie Day as Luigi has me all sorts of hyped actually.

 

[Seedtype]

Live-action I would be highly skeptical on, but I think an animated Super Mario Bros could work great.

When I saw the casting list I thought it was a huge joke, but since it's animated I guess it works.

 

[Taro Tsujimoto]

Apparently there's a Donkey Kong spinoff movie in the works, too:

 

[Osprey]

Apparently there's a Donkey Kong spinoff movie in the works, too:

It'll probably involve Pauline rescuing Mario from Donkey Kong.

Seriously, I know that he'll be the hero and, in fact, it's kind of surprising to me that he's been one for twice as long as he was a villain. He'll always be a villain to me, though.

 

[Taro Tsujimoto]

And delayed.

 

[Shareefruck]

It'll probably involve Pauline rescuing Mario from Donkey Kong.

Seriously, I know that he'll be the hero and, in fact, it's kind of surprising to me that he's been one for twice as long as he was a villain. He'll always be a villain to me, though.

I think canonically (well, the canon that Rare made up, anyways), the villainous Donkey Kong that you're referring to is technically Cranky Kong. Donkey Kong Jr. from the Arcade sequels/Super Mario Kart is his son, and the modern Donkey Kong is Jr's son/Cranky's grandson.

Also, your last sentence is very Cranky Kong.

 

[MMC]

 

[BertCorbeau]

The internet isn’t ready for this

 

[No Fun Shogun]

This'll probably be my Mario Kart-loving son's first movie in the theaters (it'll come out a couple weeks before his 5th birthday), so I'm looking forward to this.

I'll probably hold off on watching any trailers or teasers like I do with basically any film that I'm interested in, as I like my movies to be as visually fresh as possible.

 

[MMC]

 

[MMC]

Not sure how I feel about Pratt as Mario still but otherwise I thought that trailer was great

 

[MMC]

 

[Very Stable Genius]

 

[Emperoreddy]

Looks pretty good to me.

 

[HanSolo]

"Chris Pratt says he’s ‘updated’ Mario’s voice for the Super Mario movie - Polygon" Chris Pratt warns his Mario voice is ‘unlike anything you’ve heard’

I can't stop laughing