{"id":279764,"date":"2025-11-12T14:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T14:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/279764\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T14:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T14:55:09","slug":"nintendo-hit-goes-to-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/279764\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Hit Goes to Space"},"content":{"rendered":"

Video game movies are bigger than ever, between recent hits like \u201cFive Nights at Freddy\u2019s\u201d<\/a> and \u201cA Minecraft Movie\u201d<\/a> that defied box office expectations to gross massive numbers worldwide. And next year promises to have another video game to movie hit: On a Nintendo<\/a> Direct on Wednesday, November 12, Nintendo released the first trailer for \u201cThe Super Mario Galaxy Movie<\/a>,\u201d the second animated film adaptation of their flagship \u201cMario\u201d game series. <\/p>\n

A sequel to 2023\u2019s \u201cThe Super Mario Bros. Movie<\/a>,\u201d which was produced by Nintendo in partnership with Illumination<\/a>, the film is based on 2007\u2019s \u201cSuper Mario Galaxy,\u201d a 3D platformer released for the Nintendo Wii console system. The game follows the plumber Mario as he \u2014 like most entries in the series \u2014 races on an adventure to save Princess Peach from the villainous Bowser. The twist for \u201cSuper Mario Galaxy\u201d is that the game departs from the Mushroom Kingdom for an interstellar adventure, as Mario teams up with the star-shaped Luma aliens and their caretaker Rosalina to find and defeat Bowser. The entry was a massive success, selling 12.80 million units worldwide by 2020, and received significant critical acclaim, often being listed by critics as one of the greatest video games in history. <\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Super Mario Galaxy Movie\u201d will loosely adapt the original game, with both the Lumas and Rosalia being featured. In addition, the main voice cast of the original \u201cSuper Mario Bros. Movie\u201d will return, led by Chris Pratt as Mario, Anya Taylor-Joy as Peach, Charlie Day as Mario\u2019s brother Luigi, Jack Black as Bowser, Keegan-Michael Key as Toad, and Kevin Michael Richardson as Bowser\u2019s right-hand man Kamek. Seth Rogen and Fred Armisen, who played Donkey Kong and Cranky Kong, were also featured in the original movie but have not been announced to return. The film is directed by Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic, who return after helming the first movie. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe Super Mario Bros. Movie\u201d originally released in April 2023. Critical reception to the movie was mixed (IndieWire gave it<\/a> a B) but the film proved tremendously successful financially, grossing $1.3 billion worldwide, making it the second highest-grossing film of the year behind \u201cBarbie.\u201d Other upcoming video game films include \u201cFive Nights at Freddy\u2019s 2\u201d in December and \u201cMortal Kombat II\u201d in May. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe Super Mario Galaxy Movie\u201d releases in theaters on April 3, 2026, almost exactly three years after the original film. Watch the full trailer below. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Video game movies are bigger than ever, between recent hits like \u201cFive Nights at Freddy\u2019s\u201d and \u201cA Minecraft…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,63,1842,10844,105,160200,160201],"class_list":["post-279764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-illumination","tag-nintendo","tag-technology","tag-the-super-mario-bros-movie","tag-the-super-mario-galaxy-movie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}