Fri. Apr 19th, 2024


Nintendo has dropped the second trailer for The Super Mario Bros. Movie in a short Nintendo Direct. This new footage shows much more of the film, which is still slated for April 2023.

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The trailer blazes through many iconic items, characters, and locations from the series, including Fire Flowers, karts, various familiar platforming hazards, the Tanooki Suit, and more. Luigi, Peach, Bowser, Toad, and Mario also get more speaking time. And while Donkey Kong doesn’t utter a word, Shigeru Miyamoto noted that the character was slightly redesigned to have a more comical look reminiscent of the original character.

The film stars Chris Pratt as Mario, Anya Taylor-Joy as Princess Peach, Charlie Day as Luigi, Jack Black as Bowser, Keegan-Michael Key as Toad, Seth Rogen as Donkey Kong, Fred Armisen as Cranky Kong, Kevin Michael Richardson as Kamek, and Sebastian Maniscalco as Spike.

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The Super Mario Bros. Movie is being directed by Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic (collaborators on Teen Titans Go! To the Movies) from a screenplay by Matthew Fogel (The Lego Movie 2: The Second PartMinions: The Rise of Gru). Illumination founder and CEO Chris Meledandri and Nintendo legend Shigeru Miyamoto are producing. Nintendo and Universal Pictures are co-financing the project.

By Dave Jenks

Dave Jenks is an American novelist and Veteran of the United States Marine Corps. Between those careers, he’s worked as a deckhand, commercial fisherman, divemaster, taxi driver, construction manager, and over the road truck driver, among many other things. He now lives on a sea island, in the South Carolina Lowcountry, with his wife and youngest daughter. They also have three grown children, five grand children, three dogs and a whole flock of parakeets. Stinnett grew up in Melbourne, Florida and has also lived in the Florida Keys, the Bahamas, and Cozumel, Mexico. His next dream is to one day visit and dive Cuba.