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.
“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.”
“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 Razzie; KEEN would be an understatement.
Read Miyamoto’s interview with Fortune in full here.
Via Collider.