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Everything We Know About The Super Mario Bros. Movie
The Super Mario Bros. movie that hit theaters in 1993 was nothing like what anyone expected. While the games were bright, colorful, and fun, Super Mario Bros. was a dark, bleak dystopian movie where Goombas were humanoid dinosaurs with shrunken heads, Yoshi was a literal dinosaur, and Bowser–then King Koopa–was a human-dinosaur hybrid played by Dennis Hopper. There’s a possibly apocryphal story of Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto watching the movie and smiling at the end and saying that he’s okay with it because no one will mistake it as having anything to do with his games.
Since then, Nintendo has avoided the big screen. There have been rumors of Metroid and Zelda movies being options from time to time, but we didn’t get anything solid until Nintendo announced The Super Mario Bros. Movie, along with its cast, headlined by Chris Pratt. The movie’s casting has received criticism from every corner of the internet.
Actors like Jack Black, Seth Rogen, and Charlie Day have largely been welcomed by fans, but Pratt has been derided by everyone from Mario fans who want to see longtime Mario voice actor Charles Martinet get his time in the sun, to moviegoers who have tired of Chris Pratt’s increasingly uninspired performances in movies like Jurassic World: Dominion, to Super Mario Bros. movie alum John Leguizamo, who has spoken out about the lack of diversity in the cast. Pratt assured fans that his Mario voice wouldn’t be just his normal voice and would be “unlike anything you’ve ever heard,” but fans have found the trailer to suggest otherwise.
