Super Mario, the famous mustachioed plumber made at Nintendo, is set to storm theaters on April 5th!
Fans are already dying to see the world of video games come to life on the big screen!
Moreover, according to the first reviews of the feature film, the latter would be very successful, making us forget the disaster embodied by the 1993 live-action film.
Although Super Mario is arguably the most famous video game character in the world, his creator is probably less in the public eye.
The latter is called Shigeru Miyamoto, nicknamed the “Spielberg of video games”. Born in November 1952 in Japan, he is 70 years old. He started at Nintendo in 1977 and hasn’t left the company since.
Shigeru Miyamoto
The video game designer is behind many of the firm’s successes and the father of the most popular characters from the Big N. From Super Mario to Donkey Kong via Zelda, Star Fox or Pikmin, Miyamoto has been blowing up Nintendo for over 40 years.
Originally, the developer was supposed to make an arcade game centered around Popeye in the early 1980s. However, Nintendo only owned the rights to Spinach Eater for handheld video games. That’s why Miyamoto created Mario instead of Popeye.
The rest is history! Super Mario is a hit and the character becomes Nintendo’s mascot, daring to become even more popular than Mickey in the United States.
Today, Miyamoto-san sees his baby come to life on the big screen in an animated film he directed as a producer.
Together with the company Illumination, Nintendo ensured the respect of the world of the mustachioed plumber, while lending its unique know-how to the Despicable Me studio.
“Whenever I meet a Hollywood producer, he tends to explain that our license could lead to a successful film, but Chris Meledandri Especially during the conversation, we noticed that we had a similar idea of the artistic”Shigeru Miyamoto explains.
Mario and Luigi
“So our approach to film production was very close to the way I developed my game, and fortunately, it was very enjoyable for me. On set, of course, we don’t solve all problems on philosophical principles alone.”continues the designer.
“We went through trial and error and our discussion: What does the story tell us about Mario? What kind of scenes do fans want to see? Which of the many characters deserve to be in the movie? We talked about a lot of things.”Miyamoto-san reveals.
“The core ingredients of Nintendo’s game series lend themselves particularly well to entertaining, original and inventive film projects aimed at audiences completely new to the world of gaming”– says Chris Meledandri.
Super Mario Bros. hits theaters on April 5th.
Source: Allocine
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