From ‘The Last of Us’ to ‘Mario Kart’: This is Mario Bros played by Pedro Pascal

What if every video game got a reimagining for HBO? Well, that is the question that seems to have been made on Saturday Night Live. And it couldn’t be with another actor. Pedro Pascal has played another famous character in a video game.

Currently, the actor we met giving life to Oberyn Martell in ‘Game of Thrones’, plays Joel Miller in ‘The Last of Us’ on HBO. The series is turning out to be a huge phenomenon and one of the best video game adaptations to date. However, what if HBO continues to put its own spin on video games after the success of the series? Well, here comes the choice for Super Mario that the famous American television program has proposed.

The sketch takes the beloved world of Mario Kart and brings us the idea of ​​a gritty, post-apocalyptic world where Bowser rules. (played by Kenan Thompson). And it’s up to Mario (Pascal) to turn things around. You must carry a person, aka Princess Peach (played here by Chloe Fineman) to Rainbow Road while running from shells, goombas (the famous mushrooms) and even Bowser himself.

Who knows if HBO finally decides to go to these parts within the adaptations. Surely, and realistically, no. Although it is very funny to see the relationship with Pascal’s own adaptation of the game mixed with a topical story about the world of the Mario brothers.

Anyway, soon we will have the version of the movie of Super Mario Bros. There were a lot of people who weren’t really interested in the idea of ​​Chris Pratt as Mario. We will see this film in theaters on March 31, 2023. Without a doubt, Pascal’s version is much more hilarious and comes as a breath of fresh air for the Mushroom Kingdom. However, whether or not we are lovers of the famous Nintendo video game, it is curious to see how the world would look adapted to the environment of ‘The Last of Us’.

In this HBO-style version of the famous video game, well-known characters appear, such as Yoshi, played by Bowen Yang (‘Bros’, ‘Satudary Night Live’) saying that he is bisexual and then Toad by Marcello Hernández, also a comedian from ‘SNL’ saying the same thing. same. It is such an unlikely concept, and unnecessary, why not say it, to imagine Pedro Pascal as Mario. He already has enough to immortalize Joel in the series that is already one of the best series of 2023.

‘The Last of Us’ has just released the fourth chapter. The next one will arrive early because of the Super Bowl, and will be available on February 11.