What The Super Mario Movie Can Learn From Uncharted's Surprise Success
The as-yet-untitled Super Mario movie will undoubtedly be very different to the recent live-action adaptation of Uncharted, but there are many things that the plumber’s animated debut can learn from the surprise success of Tom Holland’s smash hit. Almost 30 years on from 1993’s Super Mario Bros., the upcoming Mario movie is a collaboration between Nintendo and the animation studio Illumination. The Super Mario movie boasts an all-star voice cast including Chris Pratt as Mario, Charlie Day as Luigi, Anya Taylor-Joy as Princess Peach, and Jack Black as Bowser.
Although Super Mario’s plot is currently being kept secret, there has already been a backlash on Nintendo’s casting announcement and list of characters who are likely to appear in the movie. Uncharted received a similarly frosty reception when the first reports of Holland and Wahlberg’s roles in the film were announced, yet it has since gone on to commercial success despite its poor critical reception. The film received an impressive $44 million at the US box office on its opening weekend – one of the highest ever seen for a video game adaptation.
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Despite the disparity between the two films, there is much that Super Mario can learn from Uncharted. Rather than following the narrative structure of a singular game in the popular series, Uncharted instead stands as a prequel to the videogames, exploring the origins of Nate and Sully’s relationship as they go on a quest to find the lost gold of Ferdinand Magellan. This approach to using an original story set in the video game’s world is a model that should be utilized by the Super Mario movie. Unlike the Uncharted series, the Mario games are not
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