The idea sounds clean and dirty at the same time.
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/rumor/39215/sony-working-on-a-super-mario-bros-movie
Nintendo and Sony Pictures are working on an animated Super Mario Bros. movie, following the ongoing massive leak of e-mails from the movie studio.
While nothing is officially greenlit, the e-mails suggest that film producer Avi Arad recently acquired the rights to produce animated films based on Super Mario as of October 23 of this year. “I am the proud father of mario the animated film" said Arad in an e-mail to Sony Pictures co-chairman Amy Pascal. Arad then forwarded Pascal photos of him with Shigeru Miyamoto and Satoru Iwata. Pascal forwarded these e-mails to Tom Rothman, chairman of the Sony-owned TriStar Pictures, and added "Avi closed Mario brothers, animated."
The e-mails also include Arad thanking Michelle Raimo Kouyate, the President of Production at Sony Pictures Animation, for a gift basket filled with Mario merchandise, with replies from Koutate of wanting to "build a Mario empire!” and that she "can think of 3-4 movies right out of the gate on this. So huge!”. There are also talks of bringing on Genndy Tartakovsky, creator of the cartoons Dexter's Laboratory and Samurai Jack, as director of the film.
Nintendo and Sony Pictures have yet to officially comment.
Sony making a Mario Bros. animated movie?
http://kotaku.com/report-sony-making-super-mario-bros-cartoon-1670192558/all (http://kotaku.com/report-sony-making-super-mario-bros-cartoon-1670192558/all)QuoteThe film, which the emails say will be animated, is only in the very earliest stages of production, with no personnel currently attached (though there are daydreams that Samurai Jack's Genndy Tartakovsky might be tempted).QuoteYet the Buzzfeed report says they "could not find any emails in which anyone at Sony Pictures expressed concern about any conflicts with their video game corporate cousin Sony Computer Entertainment, which is a direct competitor with Nintendo."
Thinking this over, I really can't picture a compelling Mario 3D animated movie....
now if they did a Samus/Metroid movie, a Link/Zelda movie or maybe even a StarFox movie.... or better yet, a Nintendoverse movie in the vein of maybe The LEGO Movie, where Mario gets caught up in a whimsical adventure that takes him into all sorts of **** and lands in him all of Nintendo's properties to resolve it, involving all he comes across, then maybe that will work. But just Mario & Luigi.... in the mushroom kingdom.... I'm just not seeing it.
what will be interesting though, is who get the game rights to the movie? and will it appear on a system other than a Nintendo one?
So this is being run by the guy who wrecked Spiderman?
Sounds legit.
So this is being run by the guy who wrecked Spiderman?
Sounds legit.
I haven't seen The Amazing Spider-Man 2, but the first Amazing Spider-Man movie was pretty good.
