What are your thoughts on the Disney Super Mario Bros. movie?
Well, when we first initiated talks about a Super Mario Bros, movie, I tried to emphasize the point that the Mario Bros. games are fun as videogames and if we were going to make a Mario Bros. movie, that movie should be entertaining as a movie, and not a translation of the videogame. I think that they tried very hard and in the end it was a very fun project that they put a lot of effort into. The one thing that I still have some regrets about is that the movie may have tried to get a little too close to what the Mario Bros. videogames were. And in that sense, it became a movie that was about a videogame, rather than being an entertaining movie in and of its self.
Did you collaborate a lot with Disney to create this movie?
I didn’t collaborate with them a whole lot. Obviously, I was involved in the initial pitch about them wanting to make a movie. After they had started production and had filmed some scenes, there was a step there where we were a little bit involved.
Was there a big difference between what Disney pitched to you and what the final movie was?
When they came to us with the initial pitch for the movie they had a kind of a very rough outline of what the movie would be and we approved that. As we started to go into production then the theme and the focus of the movie shifted to follow more along the lines of what the videogame was, but I wasn’t terribly involved because my feeling was that I make videogames. I wanted someone who makes movies to create the Mario Bros. movie and that would be the best way for it to be an entertaining movie. But gradually, as they went through production, the movie began to follow the videogame more and more closely.
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(I recommend reading the whole interview.)
This is pretty neat, I never thought I'd see the day Miyamoto would talk about the Super Mario Bros. movie. I hope you all enjoy.