{"id":4761,"date":"2015-08-24T09:41:15","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T09:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/?p=4761"},"modified":"2015-08-24T09:41:15","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T09:41:15","slug":"ready-for-super-mario-bros-2-nintendo-might-be-making-movies-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/08\/24\/ready-for-super-mario-bros-2-nintendo-might-be-making-movies-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Ready for Super Mario Bros 2? Nintendo might be making movies again…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Always dreamt of a Super Smash Bros<\/em> movie? Well, you might be in luck: Nintendo are apparently planning to start making movies again<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of Super Mario, told Fortune<\/a> that the company were \u201d\u02dcstarting to think more and more about how movies can fit in\u2019 and that the company will \u201d\u02dcpotentially be looking at things like movies in the future\u2019.<\/p>\n

That follows a section in the company\u2019s earnings statement released in June, which stated that Nintendo will take a \u201d\u02dcmore active approach\u2019 to \u201d\u02dcareas outside the video game business, including visual content production and character merchandising\u2019.<\/p>\n

The last major motion picture based on a Nintendo franchise was 1993\u2019s Super Mario Bros<\/em>, which was a critical flop. Bob Hoskins, who played Mario, described it as the worst film he\u2019s ever made<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Nintendo characters also appeared in the critically acclaimed Wreck-It Ralph <\/em>and the less-critically acclaimed Pixels<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The quotes follow multiple rumours about Nintendo\u2019s potential involvement in the wider entertainment industry. Earlier this year, it was claimed that Nintendo were working on a live action TV series based on The Legend of Zelda<\/em> with Netflix, although this was quickly denied<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Last year, leaked emails from Sony<\/a> suggested that they were in negotiations with Nintendo to produce an animated Mario<\/em> film. The emails claimed that the deal was more or less done, although no formal announcement has been made.<\/p>\n

Given the lukewarm reception most video game movies receive, re-entering the movie industry would be a surprise move from the notoriously-protective Nintendo. However, video game movies can turn big profits: the Resident Evil<\/em> franchise, for example, has grossed over \u00a3500 million worldwide.<\/p>\n

Hollywood doesn\u2019t appear to be giving up on videogame adaptations any time soon either; films based on Uncharted, World of Warcraft <\/em>and Uncharted<\/em> are all scheduled for release over the next 2 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Always dreamt of a Super Smash Bros movie? Well, you might be in luck: Nintendo are apparently planning to start making movies again. Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of Super Mario, told Fortune that the company were \u201d\u02dcstarting to think more and more about how movies can fit in\u2019 and that …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4761"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4761"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4763,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4761\/revisions\/4763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}