Lead Designer Says Nintendo Movies Could Be On The Cards

Let us all take a moment to remember the sight for sore eyes that was Super Mario Bros‘ live-action adaptation for the big screen.

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While Nintendo’s foray into filmmaking started and finished in 1993 with the release of Super Mario Bros (with a loss of $20 million at the box office) legendary Nintendo designer Shigeru Miyamoto has fuelled rumours that the gaming platform could take another crack, decades later – as Nintendo movies could be part of the company’s media expansion.

In an interview with Fortune, Miyamoto—who has been the key creative behind Nintendo classics since 1979, including Donkey Kong, Super Mario Bros, and the Legend of Zelda, among dozens more—the designer said the relationship between video games and cinema is often mistakenly linked.
“Because games and movies seem like similar mediums, people’s natural expectation is we want to take our games and turn them into movies. … I’ve always felt video games, being an interactive medium, and movies, being a passive medium, mean the two are quite different.”
However, Miyamoto claimed Nintendo is experiencing a period of transition and expansion – with the prospect of pioneering new mediums within their established franchises looking more and more likely. Most notably, this could include more Nintendo MOVIES. 
“As we look more broadly at what is Nintendo’s role as an entertainment company, we’re starting to think more and more about how movies can fit in with that—and we’ll potentially be looking at things like movies in the future.”

While adapting Zelda or Mario Kart or Donkey Kong is, realistically, an idea already begging for a RazzieKEEN would be an understatement.

Read Miyamoto’s interview with Fortune in full here

Via Collider.

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