I'm not a big fan of Illumination, but as long as they keep their fart jokes and Minions out of it, it might end up being decent.The day many thought would never come has arrived. The Wall Street Journal reports that Nintendo has made a deal with Illumination Entertainment, the animation studio that makes the Despicable Me movies (as well as recent hits Sing and The Secret Life of Pets) to do an animated Mario movie.
According to the report, the companies have been in negotiations for a year and the fact Universal (which finances and distributes Illumination’s movie) has partnered with Nintendo for several theme parks was helpful. Right now, the deal is one for one movie, but there is potential for more.
Of course, Nintendo is almost laughably protective of their intellectual properties, especially after the disastrous 1993 live action Super Mario Bros. movie. They’ve made Pokémon movies but, beyond that, rumors of movies based on Mario and The Legend of Zelda have been around for years. This is the vide game company’s first big move forward in a long time, and the implications are extremely significant.
The animated Super Mario Bros. film is currently in “early development,” which doesn’t mean much. Animated films, especially ones as important as this, tend to take a long time to make, so don’t even bother to start holding your breath yet. But still... wow.
New animated Super Mario movie in the works.
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The only thing about Illumination that makes it seem like they'd be the right company for this is how they've managed to write expressive characters that don't exactly speak English. I agree, hopefully the writing isn't total trash. Miyamoto's looking beyond his lifetime to secure Mario's position as a cultural icon lately.
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So... does this mean I might get to make a Metroid movie?
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^absolutely, nintendo's very supportive of metroid fan products
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One thing is for sure is that they can't make it worse than the last one!
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Of all the companies they could have choose, why illumination? How many GOOD films did they make?
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Illumination is an... interesting choice for studio, but I'll give it a chance.
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To be fair, I thought the first Despicable Me movie was pretty nice.
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And literally everything after that was pure garbage.Random User wrote: ↑Fri Nov 17, 2017 10:08 pmTo be fair, I thought the first Despicable Me movie was pretty nice.
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Re: New animated Super Mario movie in the works.
That's also a fair point.