The Super Mario Bros. movie is out in theaters now, but it’s not really Hollywood’s first attempt at a Mario movie. In 1993, directors Annabel Yankel and Rocky Morton produced a live-action version of Super Mario Bros., starring Bob Hoskins as Mario and John Leguizamo as Luigi. It was panned by critics.
The main difference between 1993’s Super Mario Bros. and the Super Mario Bros. Movie is that Nintendo was directly involved in the new animated film, with Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto himself being the executive producer.
Morton said variety He had a “polite” meeting with Miyamoto before production began on the first Mario movie, but the two never spoke again. , the rest is history. Despite the cold reaction to the film, Morton claims Miyamoto actually enjoyed Super Mario Bros.
Morton said he might have viewed it differently had Miyamoto been more involved in the 1993 film. If he had been a producer and understood what we were doing, he wouldn’t have made certain things happen,” he said. “We would have been a team and it would have been a different movie.” I guess.”
The film was marred by production issues, including last minute rewrites and rewrites. Leguizamo and Hoskins drinking on setHoskins, who died in 2014, said Super Mario Bros. was the worst movie he ever made and called the production a “f**king nightmare.” ‘, he said.
“It was a very painful experience,” Jankel said. But at the same time, the director sees the film in 2023 as “a truly enjoyable experience that finds its place in the annals of history.”
Check out Variety’s interview Join Jankel and Morton to learn more about what went wrong in the original Mario movie.
The Super Mario Bros. movie aired Wednesday after earning over $30 million in the US in just one day. Worldwide by Sunday, he’s earned $225 million and is expected to climb the charts, making him one of the highest-grossing video game movies of all time.
In the Super Mario Bros. movie, Chris Pratt is the voice of Mario, Keegan-Michael Key as Toad, Charlie Day as Luigi, Anya Taylor-Joy as Peach, and Jack Black as Bowser. Charles Martinet, who voices Mario in the game, has multiple roles in the film.
For more information, check out GameSpot’s review of the Super Mario Bros. movie. You can also read GameSpot’s featured interview below.
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