Nintendo ‘needed to be involved’ in new Mario movie, says Miyamoto

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Mario, now the most famous character in video game history, stars in 'The Super Mario Bros. Movie,' a major new animated film released in theaters by Hollywood giant Universal Pictures.

LOS ANGELES — When Shigeru Miyamoto first created a princess-rescuing plumber more than four decades ago, Nintendo's future mascot was just a collection of pixels who didn't have a flamboyant Italian accent—or even a name.

"It's like seeing a 2D illustration come to life as a 3D puppet, and then that coming to life, becoming a human." But in order to successfully bring that authentic Nintendo spirit to the movie, "I was certain that we needed to be involved, otherwise it could not be done," said Miyamoto.The result is a colorful, kaleidoscopic action movie, frenetically paced to appeal to children, but stuffed with winks and nods to the games that generations of nostalgic Nintendo fans grew up with.

Until then, beyond the odd "Wahoo!" catchphrase, Nintendo designers would not add "anything extra or unnecessary" to characters, because "we didn't know what kind of games they would be used for" next. Instead, films like Spielberg's "Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark" had inspired Miyamoto's video games, which include the critically adored "Legend of Zelda" series.

An explanation for that apparent oversight is woven into the movie's plot, and should help to assuage some of viewers' skepticism.

 

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