Super Mario Bros. is Nintendo's housekeeping IP, which has endured since its debut on the Red and White machine in 1985 as a sequel to Mario Bros. in 1983, and is also the famous game producer Shigeru Miyamoto.
It's hard to imagine such a super classic game IP, which has been born for so many years without a very good film adaptation - although this theme has been made in 1993, the quality of the finished film is extremely poor, which can be called the black history of game adaptation films. But at a time when everything in Hollywood can be changed, there is finally a change.
During the recent Nintendo Direct Livestream 2021, Nintendo announced a partnership with Illumination Entertainment to produce an animated super Mario Bros. movie, now scheduled for Release on December 21, 2022.
Nintendo seems confident in this super Mario animation and has prepared an extremely strong voice cast.
The game's protagonist, Mario, will certainly be voiced by Star-Lord Chris Palat, who also voiced Emmett, the protagonist of 2014's Lego Movies.
As the eternal theme of Super Mario, players have to manipulate 1P Mario and 2P Luigi to rescue the Mushroom Kingdom Peach Blossom Princess who is constantly kidnapped by the Cool Overlord. This animated version of Princess Peach Blossom will be voiced by Anna Taylor-Joy, who starred in "Rear Wing Deserter" and has recently gained momentum.
It seems that the recent collaboration with Lego has also brought more experience to Nintendo, and Mario's brother Luigi also used the voice actor from The Lego Movie, who was Charlie Day, who had voiced the spaceman Benny. In "The Lego Movie", the image of the character of Benny the Astronaut is very similar to Emmett, in fact, from the Lego figure, it is simply a twin brother with different styles, and choosing their voice actors to voice the Mario Brothers will be very appropriate.
Jack Black, a famous nonsense funny actor (though I've always found it funny), will voice Cool Overlord, and the live-action version of that year will be played by the famous villain Dennis Hopper, thinking that this time Black will play a crazy and very different Cool Bully, at least his appearance is very similar to Thatubac - although it is invisible.
In the famous comedy short series "Ki and Peel" (also known as "Black Brothers"), Jigan-Michael Kay voices Princess Peach Blossom's attendant Chinobio - is there no good brother Jordan Peel? I don't believe it!
For the rest of the characters, Kevin Michael Richardson voices Carmeck (the most powerful sorcerer of the Cool Overlords), Sebastian Maniscaco voices Gabon, and Fred Amison voices Donkey Kong! But this is also normal, after all, the first appearance of Mario's character is in the 1st generation of "Donkey Kong", but the heroine at the time, Mario's ex-girlfriend "Pauline", will it appear this time?
At the Nintendo Face-to-Face Conference, Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of the "Super Mario Bros." series, said: "This will be a common project between Lighting Entertainment and Nintendo. I myself have been trying to enjoy a creative process that is a little different from making a game. It may take a while for us to share more updates, but we hope you'll keep an eye on them. ”