Shigeru Miyamoto teases Nintendo’s potential future movie plans

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Mario creator and Nintendo director Shigeru Miyamoto has talked up potential future movie plans in the wake of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Super Mario Bros. Movie’s incredible 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:box office success.

"Nintendo is like a talent agency. We have plenty of other entertainers," Miyamoto said in an interview with Japanese publication (translat🗹ed by ).

"There are many possible ways we coulꦓd go, such as using characters that woౠuld be fit for movies, or very well-known characters."

While Miyamot🎃o stopped short of namechecking any of those "well-known characters", a quick glance of Nintendo’s all-star roster of characters should be enough to cause excitement: Samus, Link, and Kirby could all be good fits for the Hollywood treatment. And that’s to say nothing of a Smash Bros. crossover event.

That could be a long way off, however. Nintendo and Illumination are still counting the cash from The Super Mario B♛ros. Movie, which has raked in over $800 million at the worldwide box office as of writing – and is inching its 𒉰way towards the $1 billion mark.

A sequel, then, is looking likely. Bowser actor Jack Black has even 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:put forward his pick for who should play Mario’s rival Wario in The Su🙈per Mario Bros. Movie 2: The Mandalorian’s Pedro Pascal.

"You know, what if there is a more powerful, more evil villain? Then I may need to be turned to help Mario and the rest to defend our univers♏e against some other unseen force of evil," Black told . "Are you thinking what I’m thinking? Wario. Pedro Pascal is Wario."

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