A Mario animated movie by Sony Pictures!?!

Re: Sony Pictures had the rights to make a Mario animated movie

Mcmadness said:
Because its the Super Mario bros movie based off the super mario bros series of platformers. Not the rpgs, not Mario Kart, not wrecking crew, not mario party, the list goes on.

Plus it would be its own version of the SMB world. It wouldn't adapt a previous story, it would continue in its own direction, which it should. I don't want to see a watered down version of another plotline.
Click to expand...
That makes sense. I would prefer stories to the stories based on RPGs.
 
Re: Sony Pictures had the rights to make a Mario animated movie

The movie should have a story of Mario RPG (excluding Sticker Star) quality at least. It should not, however, be based directly off of one of the RPG stories. I'd rather have an original story or at the least an expansion of one of the platformer's stories.
 
Re: Sony Pictures had the rights to make a Mario animated movie

I think this film would have elements from Super Mario Bros, Super Mario Bros 3, and Super Mario World and maybe Donkey Kong or Wario would appear.
 
Re: Sony Pictures had the rights to make a Mario animated movie

In all honesty, I don't think any of the RPG plotlines can be condensed into even a 2-hour film. They would've worked as maybe an anime series or something (which probably would've happened around the time they came out had the movie from 1993 not occurred).
 
Re: Sony Pictures had the rights to make a Mario animated movie

Valerius Dover said:
In all honesty, I don't think any of the RPG plotlines can be condensed into even a 2-hour film.
Click to expand...
SPM could. Just take out the non-Tippi Pixls and secondary characters, cut out most of the return-to-Flipside inter-chapter sequences, and other such streamlining measures, and it's definitely doable. Hell, all the RPGs could be turned into movies if you chop out enough stuff and keep the core storylines, although the earlier PMs are the least likely to survive the conversion in any overly gameplay-faithful forms since even the partners would need to go after their chapters are done for the most part (except, for example, Goombella and Vivian in PM:TTYD, and maybe Koops too). The platformers are the the opposite: story needs to be added to make a decent film out of 'em, but that's also doable. In both cases, it all depends on how good the writer and director are.
 
Re: Sony Pictures had the rights to make a Mario animated movie

If it winds up an adaptation of SPM (which it won't) then I quit.

I don't know what I'm quitting but I quit it.
 
Re: Sony Pictures had the rights to make a Mario animated movie

I honestly don't think a new Mario movie is a good idea.
 
Re: Sony Pictures had the rights to make a Mario animated movie

What about making the RPGs spin off movies to the main series movies? That way, everyone's happy.
 
Re: Sony Pictures had the rights to make a Mario animated movie

Glitchy said:
What about making the RPGs spin off movies to the main series movies? That way, everyone's happy.