Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto just posted a brief statement on Twitter saying that the upcoming Super Mario Bros. Animated film will no longer be released this year.
The film, which still has no official name and hasn’t released a single promotional image, was originally scheduled to hit theaters on December 21. Now, however, it will be in cinemas in April 2023:
This is Miyamoto. After consulting Chris-san, my partner at Illumination, on the Super Mario Bros. film, we have decided to push the global release to Spring 2023 – April 28th in Japan and April 7th in North America. My deepest apologies, but I promise it will be worth the wait.
Unfortunately, “Chris-san” isn’t actually Chris Pratt, it’s more like it Chris Meledandri, the CEO and founder of Illumination, the animation studio – behind it Despicable Me—that makes the movie.
That’s a long way from now, but also kinda explains why Barring an explosion of casting announcementswe have seen or heard virtually nothing about this film since it was first announced.
Feel free to make your own”A late movie is good after all, but a rushed movie is bad forever” quoted below, but if you do this Keep in mind that the original quote is probably something Miyamoto never actually said!
By the way, I’m a big fan of this tweet. The Nintendo of America Twitter account is usually very formal and structured Place where meticulous planning and public relations work takes place. That reads like Miyamoto just took someone’s microphone away hands at a partyor that like the president He also has a big red phone on his desk, only transcribed that one Tweets and can overwrite the passwords of all regional Nintendo accounts.
So while this message itself is disappointing, please Nintendo give more executives and developers the space to post personal tweets