While Nintendo had made an appointment at the end of this year to discover the animated film based on the Super Mario Bros. license, Shigeru Miyamoto let it be known via Twitter that the festivities were finally postponed to 2023. “After speaking with Chris Meledandri, my partner at Illumination for the Super Mario Bros. movie, we have decided to postpone its release to spring 2023 – April 7 in the United States, April 28 in Japan, he explains. . I sincerely apologize to you, but I promise you it's more than worth the wait." Precisely, Chris Meledandri also split a tweet in which he specifies that he and Miyamoto-san are working hand in hand on every aspect of the film, and that they are eager to share all of this with the fans.
This is Miyamoto. After consulting with Chris-san, my partner at Illumination on the Super Mario Bros. film, we decided to move the global release to Spring 2023 – April 28 in Japan and April 7 in North America. My deepest apologies but I promise it will be well worth the wait.
— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) 26 avril 2022
For the record, the animated film Super Mario Bros. was announced in 2018 after months of rumors. In the process, Shigeru Miyamoto had made it clear that he would make no concessions in terms of respect for the universe that he himself built. "When I spoke to Chris [president of Illumination Entertainment], he told me that he had read several of my interviews, and that he felt that he had the same approach as me on the creative, he said at the time. This first contact took place two years ago, and we recently took a step that allowed us to make an official announcement. […] That said, we are also d agree that if we can't produce something interesting enough, we'll drop it, but we've already met several times to talk about the script, and things are moving forward. Hopefully we'll be in able to make an announcement once we have settled certain things, such as the schedule for example."
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— Illumination (@illumination) 26 avril 2022
While purists thought that Mario's historic voice actor, Charles Martinet, was going to lend his voice to the mustachioed plumber, it was Chris Pratt (Guardians of the Galaxy) who was chosen. However, Charles Martinet was indeed asked - probably to avoid a bad buzz - but Nintendo prefers to keep the surprise. Logic.
