"The Super Mario Bros. Movie"
"The Super Mario Bros Movie Release Date: Cast, Trailer and Latest News"
is an upcoming computer animated fantasy adventure comedy film based on Nintendo's Mario video game franchise, produced by Universal Picture and Illumination
in association with Nintendo, and distributed by Universal. It is the third feature film adaptation of the mario franchise, following the Japanese anime film Super Mario Bros: The Great Mission to Rescue Princess Peach! (1986) and the American live-action film Super Mario Bros. (1993). The film is directed by Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic (in Jelenic's feature directorial debut). and written by Matthew Fogel. The film's ensemble voice cast features Chris Pratt as the voice of Mario, and also includes Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Day, Jack Black, Keegan-Michael Key, Seth Rogen, Fred Armisen, Sebastian Maniscalco, Charles Martnet, and Kelvin Michael Richardson.
After the critical and commercial failure of the 1993 film, Nintendo was reluctant to license it's intellectual properties for film adaptations. Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto became interested in developing another film when Nintendo was bringing its older games to the Virtual Console service, and through Nintendo's work with Universal Park & Resorts to create Super Nintendo world, he met illumination founder Chris Meledandri. By 2016, the two were discussing a mario film and in January 2018, Nintendo announced that it would collaborate with illumination and Universal to produced it. Production was underway by 2020. On October 6, 2022, a teaser trailer for the film was shown via a Nintendo Direct presentation.
The Super Mario Bros. Movie is scheduled for release in the United States via on April 7, 2023, and in Japan on April 28.
Music
During the Nintendo Direct presentation, meledandri confirmed that Brian Tyler is set to compose the score for the film. Tyler is working closely with longtime Mario composer Koji Kondo to incorporate themes from the games within the film's score. Song from Jack Black and Keega-Michael Key were improvised for the film.
Release
The Super Mario Bros. Movie is scheduled to be released by Universal Picture first in Belguim on March 22, 2023, then Germany on March 23, 2023, and followed by France on March 28, 2023, then Australia, New Zealand, Central America and countries in Latin America such as Brazil, Bolivia, Uruguay, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Paraguay, as well as in Israel on March 30, release in the United States on April 7, 2023.
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