Seth Rogen, Chris Pratt, And Charlie Day All Want Mario x Metroid
The Super Mario Bros. Movie is here, it's great, and it's poised to dominate the box office and spawn a new movie franchise--or maybe even a full-blown cinematic universe with some of Nintendo's many other intellectual properties.
It's an enticing prospect, and hardly impossible to imagine when mega-franchises like Marvel and Star Wars continue to dominate pop culture. And so we couldn't help but ask Mario, Luigi, and Donkey Kong themselves--that's Chris Pratt, Charlie Day, and Seth Rogen--about the possibility of moving past the borders of the Mario galaxy and meeting some other Nintendo folks.
All three had the same first answer: Metroid.
«I always thought Metroid was cool,» Rogen said, referring to the potential enterprise as the «NCU,» or Nintendo Cinematic Universe. «I don't know how it fits into this world necessarily, but I always thought that would make a cool movie.»
«Oh my god,» Pratt said in a separate interview. «Metroid! Metroid would be good.»
«Metroid would be really cool,» Day, sitting next to Pratt, echoed.
Day later brought up Zelda, an option that is likely a cleaner and easier fit for a Nintendo movieverse than most other possibilities. And Pratt ran with it, suggesting that Zelda could work pretty well as a movie because it already has a general plot structure that translates well to film.
«Zelda would be great. There's been there's been some quest movies that are similar. I think Zelda could be cool,» Pratt said, before pondering the potential challenges involved in making a Nintendo movie universe make sense.
«You know, I don't know how you--man, what would be the best like, standalone hit game?» Pratt went on, noting that Zelda's more structured history means there would be significantly less
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