Through Nintendo's work with Universal Parks & Resorts to create Super Nintendo World, he met with Illumination CEO Chris Meledandri. Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto became interested in developing another film during the development of the Virtual Console service.

(1993), Nintendo became reluctant to license its intellectual properties for film adaptations. It features an origin story for the brothers Mario and Luigi, Italian-American plumbers who are transported to an alternate world and become entangled in a battle between the Mushroom Kingdom, led by Princess Peach, and the Koopas, led by Bowser.Īfter the critical and commercial failure of the live-action film Super Mario Bros. The ensemble voice cast includes Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Day, Jack Black, Keegan-Michael Key, Seth Rogen, and Fred Armisen. Produced by Universal Pictures, Illumination, and Nintendo, and distributed by Universal, it was directed by Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic and written by Matthew Fogel.

Movie is a 2023 American computer-animated adventure comedy film based on Nintendo's Mario video game franchise.

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