Nintendo confirmed in its Fiscal Year Ending March 2021: Corporate Management Policy Briefing on Wednesday that Illumination’s animated film adaptation of Nintendo’s Super Mario Bros. game franchise will open in theaters in 2022.
The Buzzfeed website reported in 2014 that Nintendo was in talks with Sony Pictures for film rights to the Super Mario Bros. franchise.
The Super Mario 3D All-Stars compilation game will ship for the Nintendo Switch on Friday, while the Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury port game will launch on February 12.
Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel directed the 1993 live-action Super Mario Bros. film starring Bob Hoskins, John Leguizamo, and Dennis Hopper.