SPOILERS AHEAD, FOLKS!
If you're reading this and haven't watched The Super Mario Galaxy Movie yet, we'd recommend coming back once you have. You have been warned!
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Okay then! As we covered earlier, Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto and Illumination's Chris Meledandri have been speaking to Forbes about the new movie. As well as discussing the process of Fox McCloud getting greenlit to appear and how actor Glen Powell landed the role, the pair have also brought up some spoiler-adajcent details.
Now, they don't come flat out and totally give away the reveal at the end, but it doesn't take a genius to work out what "Rosalina and Peach’s actual relationship" could possibly be.
More interesting, though, is the fact that the idea of the two being related was born from chats that went down in Nintendo HQ during the development of 2007's Super Mario Galaxy nearly 20 years ago.
Here's what Miyamoto had to say:
“When we were developing Super Mario Galaxy, the director for that game, Yoshiaki Koizumi, and I were discussing what Rosalina and Peach’s actual relationship was. We had this vague idea about what their actual relationship could be, and how it would play into the concept of space. We had a lot of discussion about this, but we never came to a conclusion. So we decided that let’s take this opportunity to give this idea some meat and get into the specificity of it, and we had a lot of fun having this discussion back and forth."
Meledandri highlights that the sense of "discovery and surprises" were key elements they were hoping to capture. It's probably worth remembering that while these sibling revelations might not be hugely surprising to hardcore Nintendo fans — the people who have had two decades to mull these things over and formulate fan theories — a reveal like this may well come as a genuine surprise to a younger audience.
Talking of surprise-not-surprises, Miyamoto highlights elsewhere in the interview that, yes, with all the characters at their disposal, you can look forward to the expansion of the so-called 'NCU' in the years to come:
“I will say that the team that’s working on the movie, including the actors, there are a lot of Mario fans. From them, there are a lot of ideas about wanting to use different characters, almost to the point that we couldn’t fit everything in. So we’re really looking forward to creating more films."
So there we are. Official word once again that they're going to make more films in the billion-dollar-hit series. Shocker!
Let us know below if the Peach/Rosalina reveal surprised and/or delighted you, and keep an eye out for our review of the film posthaste.