As games, the Super Mario Bros franchise achieved a deep connection with the imaginations of generations, and has always tapped into a sense of magic due to its music and art.
Over and over, the mythos of Mario has been renewed in the gaming world, but the one and only attempt to translate it into a movie was (a) an embarrassing dumpster-fire, (b)happened a quarter of a century ago, and (c)has not been followed up. And there's no reason for (c).
The failed movie bore no resemblance to the spirit of the games, so it was purely a failure of the movie development process and not an indication that the source material is unfilmable. Further evidence of the fact is the high quality of some of the actors - Bob Hoskins and Dennis Hopper being top-notch, and yet still not able to rescue the disaster. It was simply lack of vision, bad luck, and bad leadership.
But an insightful script and a talented lens could absolutely make a Super Mario Bros movie work. There are so many different approaches that could totally work, even just brainstorming them.
Think about this: Real world. Mario is very old, and it's like 1980 or something. He's telling stories to his grandkids about when he was a plumber in Brooklyn in the '30s or '40s, but some of his experiences were a bit dangerous or disturbing, so he creates this mythic world to explain the stories to them in fairytale terms.
We see the stories through the kids' eyes, but also through his own eyes. When he tells the story of how he got lost in the walls of a building once, his kids see some vivid land of giant pipes and mazes, that sort of thing. And the main story that determined the trajectory of his life was the time he fell in love with the daughter of a mob boss, this thug named Cupa who had a habit of keeping her locked up...
Someone with actual talent should be able to come up with way better ideas, but the point is the mythos is so rich that there's no excuse not to adapt it.
Edit: Five downvotes within five seconds of posting, holy shit. Someone with bots really doesn't like Super Mario Bros. o_O
Submitted September 03, 2017 at 09:31PM by KubrickIsMyCopilot http://ift.tt/2xIEBlb
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