Analyzing The Super Mario Bros. Movie's Poster
After several delays, the Super Mario Bros. movie is now only six months away. Many fans are cautiously optimistic about this collaboration between Nintendo and Illumination, makers of animated film franchises like Despicable Me, The Secret Life of Pets, and Sing. Featuring a host of celebrity voice actors including Chris Pratt, Jack Black, and Anya Taylor-Joy, this movie promises to be unlike anything the Super Mario Bros. franchise has seen yet.
The Super Mario Bros. film will have a trailer premiered at New York Comic Con on October 6, and there will be an associated Nintendo Direct airing around the same time. Nintendo and Illumination know it's going to be a big deal, and are treating it with the appropriate pomp and circumstance. To announce the Nintendo Direct, the companies have released a poster featuring Mario seen from behind as he looks up at Toad Town and Peach's Castle. This is the first look at the Mario movie's art style, and there are a lot of surprising details packed into this one image.
A Game Adaptation of the Mario Movie Seems Inevitable
Story teasers seem to be carefully omitted from this poster. The Super Mario Bros. movie poster simply offers a look at the new art style and a principal location, that being the core of the Mushroom Kingdom. Mario is seen alongside a particular Toad wearing a red cap and possibly a blue vest, the classic Toad look. However, this Toad is also wearing a backpack that calls an image of Captain Toad to mind. It's likely that this is the primary Toad voiced by Keegan-Michael Key, standing in for all the playable Toads throughout the Mario series.
It seems this Toad is showing Mario around Toad Town, which may hint at this movie's plot and where it falls in the Mario
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