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#1 Raiden

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Posted 11 December 2014 - 10:13 PM

 

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Sony Pictures and Nintendo appear to have closed a deal for the animated feature film rights to the Super Mario Bros. video game franchise, according to a series of emails discovered in the massive trove of hacked Sony files recently leaked to the media.

“I am the proud father of mario the animated film [sic],” producer Avi Arad told Sony studio chief Amy Pascal in an email dated Oct. 23, 2014, with the subject line “Mario.” Arad then forwarded Pascal separate images of him with Mario Bros. creator Shigeru Miyamoto and Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata, the latter of which included the message, “Happy ceo, lets get together, it’s the mother load. [sic]”

Pascal forwarded that email to Tom Rothman, who heads up Sony Pictures subsidiary TriStar Pictures. “Avi closed Mario brothers,” she said. “Animated.”




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The deal represents only the first step in a very long road to a greenlight for an actual feature film. Animated films especially go through a long and rigorous script development process before a movie starts production. The emails also did not indicate any filmmakers attached to the project, although Pascal does at one point suggest Genndy Tartakovsky, who directed the 2012 Sony Pictures Animation feature Hotel Transylvania and created the Cartoon Network series Dexter’s Laboratory, Samurai Jack, and Star Wars: Clone Wars. “[I]ts soooo perfect for him,” Pascal wrote. (A rep for Tartakovsky tells BuzzFeed News, however, that the filmmaker “is not involved.”)

On Oct. 24, Arad sent an email to Sony Pictures Animation president of production Michelle Raimo Kouyate thanking her for a congratulatory basket she sent him filled with Mario Bros. merchandise. “Thank you Avi!” Kouyate responded. “Let’s build a Mario empire!” Kouyate also sent a photo of the basket to Pascal, and said, “I can think of 3-4 movies right out of the gate on this. So huge!”


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John Leguizamo and Bob Hoskins in 1993’s Super Mario Bros. Walt Disney Home Video / Via gigagamers.com


Curiously, BuzzFeed News could not find any emails in which anyone at Sony Pictures expressed concern about any conflicts with their video game corporate cousin Sony Computer Entertainment, which is a direct competitor with Nintendo. But Mario Bros. is a property that Arad apparently had been chasing for some time: In a Feb. 24 email, Kouyate indicated to Pascal that Arad was traveling to Japan in part “to meet with his Nintendo guy (who he has been courting for a couple years).” Then on July 14, Arad sent the following email to Pascal: “I am heading to Tokyo … I am going to try and bring back a little plumber. I guess we can all use our pipes cleaned.”

Nintendo has famously kept its video game properties away from movie adaptations after the disastrous 1993 live-action film Super Mario Bros. starring Bob Hoskins as Mario and John Leguizamo as his brother Luigi. In 2013, BuzzFeed News asked Mario Bros. creator Miyamoto if Nintendo had any interest in working with Hollywood again.

“There have been a lot of cases where we’ve been approached by different people with lots of different ideas,” he said. “And I don’t want to say that it’s impossible, [but] I don’t want you to get the impression that we are in the middle of making a movie or something. … But we always have to take into account the fact that game entertainment and movie entertainment is quite different — one being passive, and one being active. Those don’t always necessarily mix.”

Reps for Sony and Nintendo did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Rachel Zarrell contributed to this report.

 

 

 

 

 

CREDIT GOES TO SHOVEL KNIGHT. Thank him not me,. Just felt this was important enough for a topic. Never would have thought Nintendo allow it again.


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Posted 11 December 2014 - 10:36 PM

The ONE redeeming part is that Genedy might be directing. He is based at this stuff, and I'd love to see him do this.


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Posted 12 December 2014 - 12:11 AM

I wonder if they'll make a Super Mario Bros Movie the Game... A game based off a movie based off the game the movie is based off of.



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Posted 12 December 2014 - 04:52 AM

Hope that turns out to be true!


 

 


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Posted 12 December 2014 - 06:44 AM

I am really surprised that we have not seen a legend of zelda movie yet. 



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Posted 12 December 2014 - 06:51 AM

An animated one could actually be amazing. 

 

1. Release it at the same time as a new 3D Mario game.

2. Include references to game in movie.

3. Pull out all the stops in the game.

4. Include references to the movie in game.

5. Plug game before movie.

6. Win.


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Posted 12 December 2014 - 07:58 AM

If a game is made based off the movie, it could literally be the highest rated "movie game" in history lol




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Posted 12 December 2014 - 08:01 AM

The game should be about super Mario world :D

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Posted 12 December 2014 - 08:24 AM

Sony and Nintendo joining forces? What parallel dimension did I just fall into!?! Okay, overreaction aside, I'm willing to give this a chance. Think they'll do an animated Zelda move if SMB turns out to be a critical and commercial success?


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Posted 12 December 2014 - 08:30 AM

Sony and Nintendo joining forces? What parallel dimension did I just fall into!?! Okay, overreaction aside, I'm willing to give this a chance. Think they'll do an animated Zelda move if SMB turns out to be a critical and commercial success?

 

 

hmm animated zelda movie? I think i'd prefer live action for that.... perhaps not... maybe cgi. 


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Posted 12 December 2014 - 08:48 AM

hmm animated zelda movie? I think i'd prefer live action for that.... perhaps not... maybe cgi. 

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Posted 12 December 2014 - 09:10 AM

hmm animated zelda movie? I think i'd prefer live action for that.... perhaps not... maybe cgi. 

It almost happened.

Nintendo turned down this movie pitch.



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Posted 12 December 2014 - 09:42 AM

I remember the Mario show. It was pretty cool.

But with Sony making this. People would be jumping down sony neck asking why Mario isn't on the ps4 or any of the other systems lol.

But we will see what happens.
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Posted 12 December 2014 - 09:49 AM

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Posted 12 December 2014 - 09:58 AM

Sony and Nintendo joining forces? What parallel dimension did I just fall into!?! Okay, overreaction aside, I'm willing to give this a chance. Think they'll do an animated Zelda move if SMB turns out to be a critical and commercial success?

Nintendo and Sony never had a fued really, besides that one incident in the past when Sony was making their first console with Nintendo.


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Posted 12 December 2014 - 10:17 AM

Nintendo and Sony never had a fued really, besides that one incident in the past when Sony was making their first console with Nintendo.

 

They worked with Nintendo making the amazing SNES sound chip. Started working on a CD add on called the PlayStation. They day it was to be announced Nintendo drops sony and chooses Phillips. Tho the CD add on again didn't happen CDi did. Sony very angry decided to go ahead with the PlayStation project. Now it was really just that Nintendo went with expensive carts that limited N64 and why PS1 got so much support. That and SEGA rushing Saturn development and messing up the launch day.

 

Sony marketing heavily targeted Nintendo even showing up at their HQ with a guy dressed as Crash.

Tho yes since PS3 their main feud is MS.

 

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Posted 12 December 2014 - 10:58 AM

Sony marketing heavily targeted Nintendo even showing up at their HQ with a guy dressed as Crash.

 



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Posted 12 December 2014 - 02:48 PM

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Posted 19 December 2014 - 06:56 AM

I read somewhere that Mario was going to be a supporting character in Wreck-It-Ralph 2. I would much rather see that, a film made by a company who actually knows what they are doing, than whatever mess Sony Pictures comes up with.






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