Chris Pratt and Charlie Day talk about the responsibility of getting The Super Mario Bros. Movie right

gamesradar.com:

The video game to big screen adaptation is a well-trodden path, from HBO’s gritty The Last of Us to the comedy Detective Pikachu. Now, The Super Mario Bros. Movie is hoping to do justice to arguably the most popular game in history as it reimagines the origin story of the popular plumbing duo Mario and Luigi. 

The pair are Brooklyn-based plumbers in this version who get sucked through a magical pipe into the Mushroom Kingdom. But when they’re split up along the way, Mario must embark on an epic journey to save his brother Luigi from the brutal Bowser. It’s a story of overcoming adversity and the things you do for your family, as well as being filled with plenty of in-game references to the beloved Nintendo world.

"We understood the responsibility," Mario star Chris Pratt tells GamesRadar+ when we sat down with him and his co-star Charlie Day (who plays Luigi) to talk about the new movie. The pair share some insight into their process, what they hope people will take away from the adaptation, and a bit about their own history of playing the games. 

Here’s our conversation with the duo, edited for length and clarity.

This is quite a different origin story for Mario and Luigi than fans might be expecting. Was it quite an exciting prospect to create something new with such well-established characters?

Chris Pratt: Yeah, for sure. I think the medium requires that we learn a lot more about these characters than you need to know to play the games. So to carry a 90-minute narrative, you need to know everything about; where they're from, what their desires are, and what their hopes and dreams are.

Charlie Day: You need to see their work life, you need to see their home life to set up the story.

Chris Pratt: That was really