Chris Pratt will voice Mario in the upcoming Super Mario Bros. movie, and one of the directors commented on why Pratt was the right choice to play the lead character.
Co-director Aaron Horvath said: total film The movie tells the story of how Mario becomes Super Mario, and the movie features Mario and Luigi as normal “blue-collar guys” from Brooklyn trying to build careers in the plumbing industry. . Casting Pratt as Mario “makes perfect sense,” Horvath said. That’s because Pratt is known for playing the role of an ordinary guy who becomes a hero.
“He’s really good at playing blue-collar heroes with a lot of heart. For the way Mario is characterized in our films, he’s perfect for it,” Horvath said.
Pratt voiced an unlikely hero named Emmett, one of the main characters, in the 2014 Lego Movie. He also played a regular blue collar guy on the TV show Parks and Recreation. His Guardians of the Galaxy character Peter Quill is also a bit aloof and goofy, but definitely Also a hero.
Pratt’s casting as Mario was met with criticism, with some believing that video game Mario’s voice actor, Charles Martinett, should have taken on the role.
The Super Mario Bros. movie is set to release on April 5th, and the final trailer will be shown during a special Nintendo Direct on March 9th. In addition to Pratt as Mario, Peach is played by Anya and his Taylor Joy. The rest of the cast includes Seth Rogen as Donkey Kong, Jack Black as Bowser and Charlie Day as Luigi.
The animated film will be produced by Illumination, the company behind the Despicable Me minions franchise, and directed by Horvath and Michael Jelenic. Matthew Vogel of “The Lego Movie 2” is in charge of the screenplay. Shigeru Miyamoto, who created Mario, will serve as the producer of this work.
The Super Mario Bros. movie is expected to do big business at the box office. The highest-grossing video game movie of all time is Warcraft with approximately $440 million worldwide. For more, check out GameSpot’s roundup of the highest-grossing video game movies of all time.
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