On April 5, the long-awaited Super Mario Bros will land in the cinema! If the famous character is no longer to be presented, do you know his dad?
Super Mario, the famous mustachioed plumber made in Nintendo, is ready to invade cinemas on April 5!
Fans are already stamping their feet at the idea of seeing 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 live film of 1993.
While Super Mario is arguably the most well-known video game character in the world, its creator is perhaps less so in the eyes of the general public.
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 in 1977 at Nintendo and hasn’t left the company since.
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The video game designer is behind many of the firm’s successes and the father of the most popular characters from Big N. From Super Mario to Donkey Kong via Zelda, Star Fox or Pikmin, Miyamoto is making a splash Nintendo for over 40 years.
Initially, the developer was supposed to make an arcade game centered on Popeye in the early 1980s. However, Nintendo owned the rights to the spinach eater only in handheld electronic games. Miyamoto therefore created Mario to replace 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 himself supervised as a producer.
Alongside the company Illumination, Nintendo ensured that the universe of the mustachioed plumber was respected, while letting the studio of Despicable Me bring its unique know-how.
“As soon as I meet a Hollywood producer, he tends to explain to me that our license can lead to a successful film, but with Chris Meledandri [PDG d’Illumination]we especially noticed during the conversation that we had a similar conception of the artistic “explains Shigeru Miyamoto.
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Mario & Luigi
“Therefore, our approach in the production of the film was very close to my method of developing games, and luckily it was very pleasant for me. On the set, of course, we do not solve all the problems only with philosophical principles”continues the designer.
“We went through trial and error and through our discussions: what does the story tell us about Mario? What kind of scenes do the fans want to see? Of the very many characters, which ones deserve to appear in the film? We talked about a lot of subjects”reveals Miyamoto-san.
“The main ingredients of Nintendo game series lend themselves particularly well to entertaining, original and inventive film projects aimed at viewers who are completely unfamiliar with the world of games”says Chris Meledandri.
Super Mario Bros hits theaters April 5.