Chris Pratt will play Mario in next year's Super Mario Bros. movie

[midian182]

Recap: Are you old enough to remember the first movie based on a video game? Many kids of the early nineties were hugely excited by the prospect of seeing a live-action Super Mario Bros. on the big screen, only to find its deviation from the source material confusing and disappointing, setting a trend that would endure to this day. But here's some good news for Mario fans: the plumber is once again getting the movie treatment, and this time he'll be played by the first person you think of when imagining a short, rotund Italian: Chris Pratt.

The new Mario feature is, of course, an animated movie, so Star-Lord isn't going to be taking on the part of the late Bob Hoskins by running around in blue overalls and a red hat. Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto revealed at Nintendo Direct that the full-length feature from Illumination studios will land on December 21, 2022.

The animation has quite a cast. In addition to Pratt, Princess Peach will be voiced by Anya Taylor-Joy, best known for The Queen's Gambit. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia's Charlie Day takes on the role of Luigi, Jack Black will be Bowser, and Keegan-Michael Key will voice Toad. Expect to hear Donkey Kong emit Seth Rogan's stoner-like laugh, Fred Armisen will be Cranky Kong, Kevin Michael Richardson (the new Dr. Hibbert from The Simpsons) will be Kamek, and Spike is to be voiced by Sebastian Maniscalco.

Additionally, Charles Martinet, who has voiced Mario, Luigi, and Waluigi, will appear in "surprise cameos" in the movie.

Illumination is best known for the Despicable Me and The Secret Life of Pets films, and the Mario animation's directors, Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic, are behind the Teen Titans Go! show and its movie, Teen Titans Go! To The Movies.

This will be Nintendo's first major film release since 1993's Super Mario Bros., a movie with a production so chaotic, Hoskins and John Leguizamo (Luigi) spent much of their time on set drunk as a way of coping. Hoskins called it "the worst thing I ever did… the whole experience was a nightmare." It was a critical and commercial flop, not helped by the fact it opened two weeks before Jurassic Park.

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[m4a4]

Eh, give me a trailer first. Movie adaptations of games are pretty hit or miss...

 

[VitalyT]

I think he's gonna do great...

 

[ziffel66]

Yeah, he looks like a short Italian plumber. /s

 

[AMN3S1AC]

Yeah, he looks like a short Italian plumber. /s

He doesn't have to look like Mario.

 

[Neatfeatguy]

The Super Mario Bros movie had to be one of the dumbest game to movie adaption I remember seeing as a kid.

Street Fighter was pretty bad....and it was bad.
Mortal Kombat was kind of bad, it was okay for a beat'em up movie, but that's about the extent of it.
Doom movie was bad.
Resident Evil movies sucked - though I do know a couple of people that really like them.
The list goes on.

I have no hopes for this movie and I think it could be a big failure on Pratt's career doing this. I like Pratt, I think he did a good job with his Star Lord role....but this Mario Bros movie...I can't even think of a story line worth making up to create a movie for it that would make any sense and still be a good movie.

 

[DZillaXx]

It's an animated movie, so these are just the voices.

Nintendo has been pretty basic in terms of voice acting in their games, still relying on text for even their "AAA" games. But seeing this would be an animated movie, it would probably do just fine. But think in lines more like Lego Movie or Wreck it Ralph if terms of what you'd be able to expect.

 

[Beerfloat]

Itsa me, jesusfreak.

 

[3volv3d]

What is a good video game movie?
I feel that even the tomb raider ones felt like each one would be the last and many films think that they won't get a sequel although the cash cow says do 20, yet they lack depth of story try to get to the action too fast, like you have to of played the games to get the background.

And those films that are just based on stretching CGI for fun usually lack.

Free guy was so crap. Disappointing AF. Might look great of you're 12 I guess.