Illumination's Mario Movie Is "Moving Along Smoothly", Aiming For 2022 Release

My son will love this

@Coolmeesje Why would it?

@Hagemaru He loves Mario so yeah I'd imagine he would love it

I am so excited for this. Hopefully the start of seeing more Nintendo franchises coming to the big/small screen.

This is just reminding me of how much I wanted Ghost of a Tale to make it to Switch, but doesn't seem likely

Yes. Yes please

Wondering if they'll have to do a Mario redesign like they did with Sonic? Hoping they get Vin Diesel to voice & give him a gun.

My heart says Spielberg, Dean DeBlois or even Edgar Wright for the director's chair... my brain says it's some French no-name directing on behalf of Melandari.

Hey, who knows? I like Minions (in small doses) and the Grinch wasn't half-bad, so... maybe?

Also: Dwayne Johnson as Bowser and Tina Fey as Peach. PLEASE.

I have no idea what to expect from this.

That article picture hurts my soul.

Freakin Illumination

I don’t think it will be live action, just based on they have only made one live action movie and it didn’t go so well. Honestly illumination’s animation style fits well with the modern Mario style. As long as the writing it’s good, this will probably become one of my favorite movies of all time, considering watching the super Mario bros movie back in the day and being disappointed.

Yay. About time they revisited Dinohattan...

...Please don't lynch me. It was a joke.

Serious comment, I'm hyped for this. Mario and friends haven't had an official animation since the Super Mario World cartoon, I think. So glad to hear that Nintendo and Miyamoto are keeping a close eye on production this time.

Please no Fluffy Mode.

Oh god no not Illumination...they make nothing but garbage

Ugh... Why did they have to pick this studio? I can't stand them!

Ugh... I know why. They want the movie to have global appeal, and for some God forsaken reason, that means it must not be glorious 2D animation from any talented Japanese studio, it's gotta be...

This.

But it's Nintendo, and they're usually pretty protective of their IP. I hope they keep the fart jokes, and stupid humor to a minimum.

What I mean by "stupid humor" is the "hey, look, we intentionally wrote an idiotic character, let's laugh at him being an idiot! Don't worry, we didn't bother having any more character depth than that! Look! He hurt himself again! Look! He did something disgusting! Isn't that just so funny!"

I can't stand that!

Idc what anyone says. I’m excited for this and I think it will be a fun movie. Hopefully it’s a success so Nintendo can continue to bring its IP to TV & movies. I don’t need a live-action Zelda, but make something similar to Castlevania on Netflix, boooyyyy 😮

Appeal to the whole family (not just very young children) and have an intelligent screenplay. Please.

I don't trust Illumination to make a good product

I do however trust Miyamoto and Nintendo to make a good product

as long as they keep close tabs on it, it should be okay

@sikthvash seeing as it's going to be a CGI film I don't see them changing Mario's design from he's using in the current games/any cgi work with Mario

Only reason Sonic got a redesign was due to his film being live action

@ClassSonicSatAm I know, was just being silly ^_^
Imagine if they were controversial and went with the original red dungarees for Mario's design?!

@sikthvash can't be any worse then the Mario live action movie XD if anything I think the changes to animation would be the same minor ones Mario got in the rabbids kingdom battle crossover, seeing as Minions and Rabbids came from the same designers/animators

That's nice that Miyamoto is co-producing at least!

Ah, yes. Illumination. The same masterminds behind the beloved Hop.

You know people are going to pull a Peewee Herman while watching this.

I was interested in the idea until learning the worst animation studio currently active was producing.

I wish it was made by literally any other animation studio.

Im actually really excited about this project
Hope its a big succes. I will def watch it.

2022 is a ways off....that's a bummer that's it's moving so slowly

I wonder if they'll be Chris Pratt to play Mario.

@mazzel Because this "studio" like to do that in all films

I'm expecting something incredibly bland at the very best. I dont understand why Nintendo would allow this medicore at best studio create a movie on Mario. I also expect Nintendo to be very hands on too which can be a bad thing, come on, Mario games are not known for a good story! Unless of course they go the Mario & Luigi route, and tbh those games havent had a decent story since the 3rd game.

Say what you want about the original Mario movie, it is no way boring or bland! I'd rather have something like that movie than something dull and uninteresting.

Of all the companies that'd do this, they go with the cheapiest one possible. Typical modern era Nintendo - they're cofunding it though, which is a good sign. Maybe this will be a Mario Rabbids situation, and the work will get elevated?

@hadrian Because it's the THRIFTIEST place to get animation done, and these days Nintendo is all about that.

@Welshland did he loved the Bob Hoskins one????

@T7Hokage017 they tryed it.... Several times. Google for Mario Cartoon, Manga, Anime.... There where many tries.

@Zequio; I'm not a bad parent so no, I've not shown him the Bob Hoskins one lol

It's hard to believe that Universal once almost ruined Nintendo in a court battle over Donkey Kong. I guess they got over that quickly when The Wizard was filmed.

@tendonerd You called it.