SCRIPT TO SCREEN: The Super Mario Bros Movies That Never Were
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 มิ.ย. 2024
- We're looking at the long development of the 1993 Super Mario Brothers Movie. Seven screenplay drafts, several different plots, lots of deleted/alternate scenes, and plenty of dinosaurs await!
Read the scripts here!
www.smbmovie.com/SMBArchive/pr...
0:00 Intro
2:09 Draft 1 (Super Mario as a Dark 80's Fantasy)
24:23 A Change in Direction
26:32 Draft 2 (Enter the Dino Dystopia)
44:32 Drafts 3 & 4 (Revisions)
52:52 Drafts 5, 6 & 7 (More Revisions)
56:52 The Extended Cut and Conclusion - ภาพยนตร์และแอนิเมชัน
It's kinda funny that in the 90s studios went out of there way to make things more realistic and less cartoony because of budget instead of just making an animated movie. It's the same think that happened to tank girl
Sadly this whole trend wouldn't die off until around the late 2000's, only to come back for revenge by turning kids media into horror slashers.
The 2 animated segments were the best part in Tank Girl.
Not so much "realistic" but more just the fact they wanted it DARK and GRITTY. The directors of the movie even took inspiration from Batman '89 and TMNT. But Mario just doesn't work as a gritty, somewhat violent cyberpunk movie. Who looks at the game's art style and thinks "Hmm. It needs more of Tim Burton's Batman and the turtles swearing." Unlike those films which took themes from their original darker comics, Mario was never that to begin with. And this came out before all remakes and reboots had to be both gritty AND realistic post Nolan's Batman in the 2010s.
@@brandonspain12345 Unfortunately.
This trend seemed to died off in the 2010's with scott pilgrim vs the world and spiderman into the spiderverse embracing a colorfull abd well execited direction that homages the original work
It's crazy to think about what 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie could've been. The earlier script could've been a really entertaining film.
I would've liked it if they didn't make Mario an all out douchebag.
if the first draft was actually made it would definitely be a cult classic today
Pretty sure the one released counts as a cult classic or close to it. Otherwise the Rough Cut wouldn't be a thing.
Oh, so Mortal Kombat (1995)
@@brandonspain12345 Definitely but change Hildy's name to Daisy and the old hag's name is revealed to Peach and the ending with Daisy becoming princess of Sarasaland with Luigi becoming her boyfriend and true love and Peach becoming princess of the Mushroom Kingdom and Mario becoming her boyfriend and true love and a post credit scene that sets up a sequel.
@@spongebobcoolduke1537 Also if this draft made Mario more likable, it might have potential.
@@supermariof0521 Definitely
The first one would have definitely been in the right direction judging from what I saw from the images here, but they managed to completely mess it up with their own dark version of Mario in an underground city that nobody was asking for.
“Takes great liberties with the source material,” that’s the understatement of the century.😂
To be fair, they didn't have much to work with.
@@pgj1997 No, but I seriously doubt this was the best they could do.
@@pgj1997 The Dic cartoons didn't hace much lore to work with and they made better adaptations of the games.
There is no excuse here,ir should have been qn animated movie instead of a live action one.
If they used Draft 1, I'm sure the movie would've become an instant classic and a big hit
Maybe the first draft will be adapted for the Universal/Illumination film but with some minor changes.
I dunno. It would've been more like the games, but with how much of an detestable cunt Mario is in Draft 1, it kinda reminds me of the early version of Woody from "Toy Story".
"Italian man explores a foreign land and encounters scaly reptilian beasts"
That's Dante's inferno poorly explained
or the tales of Marco Polo
It's fascinating to me how Draft 1 Mario and Luigi's characterizations are reversed from the 1986 Mario anime film. In that, Mario's the daydreamer who wants to save the princess, while Luigi's the greedy one only in it for the money.
14:27 Also, it's funny how you bring up the risqueness of Draft 2, considering the final draft still proved risque enough that Disney (who distributed the film under Buena Vista) took issue with it. Disney originally wanted to promote the film by having the Mario characters be walk-arounds at the parks. But after Disney saw that the final film was hiring actual strippers for the Boom Boom Bar scene (strippers who kept stripping on set despite being told numerous times to stop), Disney backed down on doing walk-arounds. Could you imagine, meeting Mario characters at Disneyland? Coulda been great...
Oh.. just wait till they get the rights to Nintendo.
@@jaggerguth4391 While is true that Disney buys a lot of stuff they can't buy companies if the owners doesn't sell them. Everything single thing they bought was up for sale.
While not faithful to Mario and Luigi's characters from the games, it was a welcomed interpretation. Their chemistry reminded me of George and Lenny from Of Mice and Men, where you have the older stressed brother taking responsibilities and looking after his younger and taller brother who's somewhat mentally challenged. And it was nice to see Mario have his character growth and seeing his mistakes for being a selfish brother, especially when Luigi turns to stone. That part definitely got me.
@@jaggerguth4391 Universal already got that covered.
If Dinohattan became a section of Hollywood Studios or smth in Disney Parks, we'd probably be seeing a lot more kids getting into punk culture, not like they aren't already.
The your princess in another castle lines were kneeslapers and excellent comedic timing
This original script honestly sounds a million times better than what the 1993 version was telling. Heck maybe even better character designs
True it is more in line with the games, but if I were in charge of that script, I would've made Mario more likable as honestly Mario was an insufferable dickbag in the original draft. Like he could still be a cynical middle age boomer, but have him still treat Luigi as a brother and not as a verbal whipping boy. Like maybe his motivation behind telling Luigi that true love ain't possible cause of his past failed love life, and he just doesn't wanna see Luigi deal with the same heartache that he dealt with.
If you're a Kaiju fan, you'll know it was like when TriStar rejected the original Godzilla script from 1994 that was closer in spirit to the original movies and was replaced with the movie that no way resembles the source material. That usually tends to be the opposite of how Hollywood does it today. When you're changing everything that fans loved about the series, that's probably not ideal. (At least for the studio.)
@@supermariof0521 Instead of making Mario less of an idiot, why don't we reverse the roles and make Luigi the grumpy, fearful brother?
@@cav33ra You mean like what the DIC cartoons did to some degree?
@@supermariof0521Exactly! I know the personalities weren't that defined, but we already had them in the DiC cartoons! And even, have Lou Albano and Danny Wells in Draft 1
The version where Princess Peach is "Hildy" actually sounds decent, that could have been a good movie.
Well I mean it could've been decent if Mario in that initial draft wasn't depicted as being more unlikable than Chicken Little's Dad, "Buck Cluck". That's one of the few things the final film got right. Mario was still a cynical middle age boomer, but he still genuinely gave a crap about his brothers well being.
@@supermariof0521 don't you think that draft gave mario a good character arc/redemption?
@@jackhamilton9604 I get what they were going for. I just felt they made Mario too dickish.
@@supermariof0521 can’t believe I missed this, sorry for the late reply. How would you have gone about it?
@@jackhamilton9604 Maybe have Mario be cocky but well meaning. Like he cares about Luigi and tries to be the bigger person for him.
That first draft with these unique concepts seemed like it would have been a much better movie than the one we've got. I wished that alternate dimensions and dimension traveling was real, so that I'd be able to travel to that dimension where this version of the movie got made, and buying a DVD/blueray for that film to rewatch it in our dimension. :)
I agree the first draft is much more like the games, but with how much of a detestable cunt Mario is in that first draft, it reminds me of the early "Black Friday" version of Woody from "Toy Story".
With those AI generated dark fantasy photo videos, we can maybe gather up a small team to make this a reality. Who knows the direction AI will go in 5 years!
It wouldn't work because that movie doesn't exist in our dimension.You would need to watch that movie in that dimension in that case😂
@@tiamysticIt is a possibility
@@ericklostreloaded It could work if our DVD/Blueray players work with discs from other dimensions. ;)
I like that to represent the wizard from the firts script you used the wise man from the Mario anime movie and to represent one of Toad’s friends you used Toadbert from the Mario & Luigi series.
The first script sounds like a modern mario movie someone would make now.
The Mario and Luigi on a field trip
I had know idea the original drafts of this movie reached that deep. Honestly, this give me respect for the movie in spite of its reputation. Like you said it has a nice charm to it, and your detailed analysis show that the people behind it put a lot of effort in trying to get this movie right.
Big Eddie Delphino? Who knew we were going to get a reference to Super Mario Sunshine years before the game ever came out?
I can't unsee Eddie as Don Pianta from Paper Mario TTYD. It'd make even more sense why Mario'd be worried about paying him back; wouldn't wanna get chuckster'd, right?
7:09 ...that art is pretty badass. :D
Can you imagine that in live action makeup? That would look frickin amazing! Especially if Arnold Schwarzenegger was written for the part.
I like how even when the world and characters changed in the later drafts, you still drew them like how they are in the games. It reminds me of how since I was a kid, when I read a book after watching a movie or tv adaptation, I still visualize them in my head like they do in the visual adaptation despite the descriptions being different since it’s easier for me to understand.
I hated when I discovered that we didn't got this not because of budget problems, or anything like that... but because Hollywood producers. The good ol' joke has always been real.
But I admire how the staff tried to fix this in the sequel
[what sequel?]
They started to wrote down the script for a SMB2 movie, but the insucces of the first one didn't allow the project to go. But "recently" the movie's archive responsibles found the sequel's script and are trying to publishing it as a webcomic. The story so far explains that, with Koopa's downfall, now Dinohattan is "Jurassic Park"-ing itself into bring back the fauna and flora lost during Koopa's reign, such as the Piranha Plants. All this while Wart is trying to invade Dinohattan with the Shy Guys.
Wasn't the comic already released? There's even PDFs available.
@@troin3925 i dunno, I've remained to chapter 4 page 1, in the web, i dunno if they managed to release it
@@troin3925 Yep, still stuck at chapter 4.
@@MariuigiKhed whats the link for it?
Too bad it wasn't animated, just imagine a musical akin the the Disney Renaissance.
Truthfully, I still unironically liked the 1993 movie, as I have some nostalgia for it.
And they ARE Brothers in the 1993 movie, people like the Nostalgia Critic just got confused by how Luigi in the movie stated his older brother was like a parent to him.
It's not as unusual as some think, even "Lilo & Stitch" has her older grown up sister as her legal guardian.
Still, interesting how different the original scripts were.
It's sad they didn't go with the first draft's storyline. I thought it was the most game accurate of them all.
I see everything else as a downward spiral to failure.
They should've made this movie animated. To keep it as game accurate as possible, do stuff from the games that are otherwise impossible for live-action, and go easy on the budget.
While needs some work, the first draft is quite good, and could have been a more fun, heartfelt adventure than what we got from 93.
Imagine if the sequel for the 1993 had Koopa returned as a different creature that actually resembles Bowser?
Then he would change his name to Bowser as part of his transformation.
Yes, finally get to learn about these scripts!
24:23
My fan made post credit scene:
Meanwhile, at Koopa’s castle, the camera moves slowly towards the lava Koopa fell into. After a few seconds, Koopa’s hand slowly emerges from the lava. The screen cuts to black.
That sounds exactly like the one from the Street Fighter movie...which means it works.
@@ggrarl thank you.
The end result does leave a lot to be desired, but I still have a soft spot for the movie. Honestly, it probably wasn't that far off from the types of Mushroom World stories my friends and I would make up on the playground at recess, we didn't really have a canon or anything to reference back then.
I do too! I think once the new Illumination film comes out (which I'm intrigued to see) we'll see a new appreciation for the 1993 film as its own take instead of the only major attempt at a Mario movie.
This is probably one of my new favorite videos to watch on your channel. I love watching videos discussing the development of the 90s mario movie since it’s really fascinating hearing the production and how it was pretty messy. But I love how creative and weird they got with the scripts, which is what I appreciate about the final product. Also that golf scene should have been in the final movie, that sounded hilarious.
Just realized something;
In the second script Eddy is much more of a comical side character than an all out antagonist. The script mentions his wife left and the bros get his daughter back but....Leena came too and switched sides.
Do you think they would have implied Leena got with Eddy since he's no longer married and Leena has a new life on Earth?😂
Something tells me about an idea of a Fanscription esque idea of a What If Mario Bros Movie was done by the Jim Henson Company or Don Bluth
Henson Mario would be the one where film adaptation was handled big the Jim Henson Company and directed by hypothetically Brian Henson and effects done by the Jim Henson's Creature Shop
It was actually supposed to be made by the crew and director behind a movie called Mom and Dad Save the World (1992). If you've seen or heard of that movie, you'll see why they were considered making the movie with them because the sets and characters look straight out of a Mario game in live action. All men in prosthetic makeup and animatronics.
@@brandonspain12345 I better check that movie out.
Now I really want a plush toy of a blooper in a lab coat. I don’t know why, but that drawling looks hilarious
My fancast for the original fantasy script written by Jim Jennewein and Tom S. Parker
Danny DeVito as Mario
Tom Hanks as Luigi
Meg Ryan or Winona Ryder as Princess Hildy
George Carlin as Woltan
Brian Henson as Toad (voice)
Michael Clarke Dunkan as Big Eddie
Arnold Schwarzenegger as King Koopa (voice)
Brad Dourif as Mugger (voice)
Mark Hamill as Beedleman (voice)
Frank Welker as Junior, Piranha Plants, Koopa Troopas, Goombas, Thrwomps and all the puppet/animatronic characters that are not King Koopa, Beedleman or Mugger
Director: Greg Beeman or Ron Howard
Puppetry and special effects: Jim Henson’s Creature Shop
The first draft should've been the final draft
Thank you so much for doing this video on the history of the first Mario movie in 1993. The other script drafts are quite interesting. It’s amazing how much risky material was in the second draft. This was indeed quite fascinating! I highly enjoy your channel and your videos are wonderful to play in the background while I’m doing long and tedious chores! Yay for Mario! I certainly hope to see the new movie later this year!
I really am looking forward to the new movie immensely, but as is often with these remakes, reboots, sequels, etc., it means lots of videos looking back on what came before, meaning the old live action SMB is gonna be getting lots of love now! I'm an odd duck, I LIKE the movie, despite it's flaws (which are many), but it will always have a strange charm for me.
This is a very good video! However, I never got the impression that Mario and Luigi weren't blood relatives in the final movie. I always thought Luigi just meant that their parents died when he was very young and Mario was the one who raised him, but maybe you're right about the ethnicity of Hoskins and Leguizamo leading to a change where they aren't blood related.
The script sounds and looks like those A.I. what if (insert recognizable brand here) was a dark 80s fantasy movie
The AI definitely sampled many scenes from this movie
I wonder how much, if at all, of the first script was re-used for the new one.
Honestly really enjoy this film. Pretty fascinating and fun on its own terms. Interesting development history for sure.
I’m one of a few who enjoyed this film, but seeing what could’ve been does make me interested.
Why do I wanna see a fanmade comic based on these two earlier drafts? I mean, we got an official comic sequel to the movie we got, and a comic adaptation to the early script of Star Wars, so we should be able to have this too.
Personally, the first draft is my favorite.
Honestly I love cranky middle aged Mario. He makes for a fun character in contrast to Luigi
It's a unique take on Mario that feels kinda welcoming and is a nice character arc for him during their journey and learning to become two brothers looking out. I think Luigi was written to be somewhat autistic or at least with the mindset of a kid who doesn't know his responsibilities yet.
So do I, but I think they should've found a way to make him likeable while still being a bit of a mood.
Damn draft one needs to be made real
I hope if the new Mario movie is good we’ll also get a Zelda movie
If the Zelda movie is good, though.
@@Dylan-Hooton I’m sure it would
Such a strange film. Never understood how it turned out the way it did, so this was very enlightening, even if some of the choices were still rather baffling. Great work!
22:32: That bit reminds me of the ending to Tearjerker.
Very interesting. Not sure it would do well in theaters but the first one is still closer to the video games and would be loved by fans. The second draft has potential as well but probably would have gotten the same hate as movie we got. Should have kept the pizza gag at the end though.
Great retrospective and analysis
Yeah, Nintendo was not happy with the outcome of this movie. When Illumination obtained the rights to make a Super Mario Bros. movie, they decided to oversee it to make sure it was more faithful to its original source material. Let's hope so. Otherwise it will probably end up like Ratchet and Clank or Angry Birds.
I saw the movie in the 90s, when it came to theaters and I felt it was as weird as that Heman movie (Masters of the Universe)
I love your drawings so much
I requested this. Thank you
You have made an hour of my life unforgettable and pleasant. Get yourself a nice cannoli!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I'm not gonna lie, I unironically love the movie we actually got.
The early concepts seem very fun though
It looks very amazing.
I love super Mario Bros. it's a video game from Nintendo
Same here.
@@michaelsanchez440 I play super smash bros it has Mario
@@traviswillden You do have.
@@michaelsanchez440 thanks buddy
It would be crazy if elements of these were taken towards the sequel to the animated film.
Saw a Mario Movie ad before this
I like how you made Eddie scarpelli look like Wario when he was turned in to a chimpanzee I wish as like an insult Mario would have called him Donkey Kong as a reference to the Donkey Kong arcade game that Mario first appeared in.
What Script to Screen episode will you do next? I've got a few ideas:
.Barney's Great Adventure
.Thomas and the Magic Railroad
.Disney's Beauty and the Beast
.Disney's Aladdin
Pretty much everyone has already covered "Thomas and the Magic Railroad".
I wish they stuck to the fantasy story instead.
Same here, at least we got a similar one that's gonna be released in April.
If they did go with that, it could be an underground cult classic
@@KaminoKatie The more sci-fi one was trying to juggle too much.
This way more interesting and polished than the final film
Something about Mario adaptations for TV and film I find interesting is that they all contradict the info the games themselves provide about Mario's history. In this film, as well as the DIC Mario cartoons, the Illumination film, and even the 1986 japanese anime movie, the very first animated adaption of Mario, it's said that Mario and Luigi used to live in the 'real world' before finding a magic warp zone and being sucked into the Mushroom Kingdom. However in the games, most notably the Yoshi's Island series, Mario and Luigi are shown as infants who were born in, what we can assume to be the world of the Mushroom Kingdom. Furthermore, in Mario Odyssey New Donk City is strongly implied to be where the original Donkey Kong took place, what with the numerous red girders, Pauline as mayor, the Festival being one giant love letter to the game, and the numerous references to DK characters scattered through the city, including Diddy and K. Rool. So were they born in The Mushroom Kingdom then got sent to the real world after the events of Donkey Kong somehow before coming back to deal with Bowser in SMB?
I just think this is fascinating.
To be fair, all that media (minus the Illumination movie) came before Yoshi's Island launch
@@hugocastilla3102 But even after, I think. With New Donk City, people started to realize "we lived a lie all this time" and I think we still do, since Nintendo states NDC was the place were the original Donkey Kong took place, but stuff like Donkey Kong Land confirms it took place on DK Isle (New Ape City is confirmed by Cranky to be the place where he fought Mario and in DKCR has the 25m levels in the background of the Factory, an abandoned construction site [MMMM...]), then during Donkey Kong Jr., Mario cages DK, flies to his "hideout" oversea were NDC presumably is.
My theory is... Mario and Luigi are delivered in the Mushroom Kingdom and there they stay for some years, then they move to the city (Big City from DK94, which more likely is gonna be renamed New Donk City, or was already named like that and Big City is just a nickname), they try to "colonize" DK Isle without success, the Kongs are brought to Big City where later the DK94 events takes place, while in the meantime, Mario and Luigi returns to the Mushroom Kingdom where SMB's events are taking place.
Super Mario is an isekai
@@MariuigiKhed good theory
@@KaminoKatie no, it cant: i don't see Mario unusefully remember that he had a past life
Hey ColinLooksback with the Mario movie from illumination coming out this spring, what do you think of the movies done by illumination?
18:10 favorite emotional scene.
16:57 🎶"Fairy Meeting"
I find amusement in how much Mario was more like Wario in the first script, it sounded really funny if only how wildly out of character it would be for Mario.
Very Interesing!
Having siblings born 20 years apart does happen sometimes, and I always assumed that when Luigi said he didn’t know who his parents were he just meant that he didn’t remember them because they died when he was a baby or something like that,
Mario being greedy and grumpy in the first draft, that kinda sounds like Wario then Mario…
Finally, You Guys Made A Cancelled Greg Beeman Version Of The Super Mario Bros. Movie 😄
Sorry Mario but your princess is in another castle: that’s a classic sentence
Awesome
We may not talk about Bruno, but Bruno doesn't talk about Luigi...
Sounds like its imperfect but a better movie. Creatures back then could have been animatronic puppets.
Hilarious how 180 these two films are: the 90s one completely it’s own thing with minor nods and not 100% faithful w/ the new movie which is just jam packed with it and very faithful to the source material. Even funnier how initially that 90s one WAS gonna be more faithful.
Poetic in a bizarre sense that the guy who designed bowser’s dinosaur phases later went to work on the ‘98 Godzilla (w/ the designs being striking in resemblance) a film notorious for how different and detached from the source material.
I personally like the first draft the most, even with its flaws. It’s simple, but very effective in being an adaptation of Mario. If they tweaked a few things around (like giving Hildy a bit more to do, such as trying to escape a few times, but be thwarted every time, or making Mario less of a jerk), this could be seen nowadays as being like the original Kombat movie, or the Sonic and Mario OVAs; something that takes a couple of liberties with the source material, but still adapts the story in a fun way while also giving some nods to the games and is considered a cult classic. Heck, it could’ve even been a live-action/animation hybrid, with the stuff in Brooklyn taking place in live-action, while the stuff with the Mushroom Kingdom takes place in animation. I also think the Illumination movie could’ve been a bit better if they took a few cues from this script.
Though, I also agree that the second draft has a lot of fun stuff in it, and if it was mixed with some of the later drafts and refined the story more, it might still be a cult classic like the final product, but in a way something like the original Street Fighter movie is because it differs greatly from the source material, with a few exceptions, but can still be a fun time to enjoy with friends.
Overall, it’s a shame the 1993 movie went the way it did, because even the earliest drafts and the anime OVA showed that you could make a movie about Mario. You just need to keep things focused and build off the games.
I can imagine Jim Henson’s Creature Shop involved with the first draft (the fantasy script written by Jim Jennewein and Tom S. Parker), with Junior, Toad, Koopa Troopas, Goombas, Thrwomps, Piranha Plants, Beedleman MagiKoopa and maybe King Koopa being animatronics and puppets.
It could be one of this live-action fantasy movies from that time, like The Wizard of Oz (1939), Jim Henson’s Labyrinth, Willow, The Dark Crystal and A NeverEnding Story, but with a slapstick comedy similar to 1994’s The Flintstones making jokes with fairlytales’ cliches, just like Princess Bride and Shrek.
Mario, Woltan, Big Eddie, Luigi and Princess Hildy would be played by real-life actors while the other characters would be puppets made by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop. Mushroom Kingdom would have the same aesthetic from Willy Wonka and The Chocoate Factory, The Wizard of Oz, Tim Burton’s Alice and A NeverEnding Story.
@@juregobviooogroverde9107Do you think Bob-Ombs would've been puppets as well, or homemade wind-up toys like in the final cut?
Does he mention that one draft had Spike and Iggy be the former servants before Koops took over?
Not sure if it's been said yet but the locket reminds me of the necklace Peach wears in the 1980s anime. Luigi knows about it and everything.
I feel this 1993 movie could’ve been better if they stuck to the original first draft and didn’t get ruined due to executive meddling. I’m glad we got the recent Mario movie that year that turned out well and got well-received, due to Nintendo and Illumination teaming up together to make it.
HOLY SHIT YEAS
I like these
If anything I'm surprised that they actually REJECTED ideas for this movie
And that THIS was the "good" option they actually went with!
Wish Toad was in the final film more
Kind supposed the Hammer Bros and the “Another Castle” joke wasn’t used considering it’s in most of the other scripts
something you didn't mention was that in the second draft koopa was planned to be played by Arnold Schwarzenegger needless to say I'm glad you didn't attempt a Schwarzenegger impression when reading koopas lines. on a serious note I'm curious if the illumination Mario movie used any of these scripts for reference during development probably but I can totally see them using the vert first draft for ideas
update yeah I'm replying to my own comment but bare with me. I actually watched the movie Monday and I doubt illumination ever used any of the scripts during development it's closest to the second draft but the connections are very broad and could've easily been made on their own .
I like the first one
Wow, interesting
You know you're getting old when people refer to 1993 as a long time ago. I still think of Ghostbusters II as a new movie! (That's 1989 for those who don't kno... I'm just making this worse for myself.)
Given that this was such a long, long time ago (and Bob Hoskins' wished it was in a galaxy far, far away) I'd forgotten most, if not all, of it. I never played the games, I only had a Speccy back then (not helping your age perception here Inferis!), so I really didn't get the film at all. Sounds like no-one involved had every played the games either! That's the one thing that the new movie will have going for it; you'd be hard pressed to find someone who hasn't played a Mario game now. I still haven't though!
Mario and Luigi are brothers in the 93 movie. It always annoys me how many people make this dumb ass joke, which originated from the Nostalga Critic. In the movie Luigi says Mario brought him up, Mario was his Mother his father and his brother his whole life. That doesn’t mean he’s Mario son like si many people misunderstand. It means Mario and Luigi were orphan children on the streets of Brooklyn and Mario the older brother stepped up to raise his younger brother me. This happens often and was especially common In the 70’s 80’s and especially the 90’s, especially for Italian families and Spanish Families. My mother dropped out of school to help her mother raise her brother and sister. I have family friends who raised their younger siblings after their parents were arrested, killed or just abandoned them. I have a friend I grew up with who emancipated herself at 16 worked three jobs and raised her younger brother and cousins after her parents and uncle were killed. She had to fight to get custody of her brother and cousin but she did it. Mario and Luigi are actually brothers in the 93 film, Mario just also acted as a perental figure to Luigi because they were left to fend for themselves. Why do people always misunderstand this. I believe it comes from the Nostalgia Critic or the fact that people either don’t listen to Luigi in the dinner scene or that they can’t seem to comprehend that not everyone had a traditional upbringing with loving parents. Some people lost their parents at a young age for whatever reasons and had to raise themselves and in some cases their younger siblings as well. This still happens today, it’s not even that uncommon. It was especially common in the 70’s and 80’s but also in the 90’s and early 2000’s.
People shit on this movie a lot, and yes I know the story that lead to its creation, but any kid who actually grew up watching this will tell you that this movie was best. It was weird it was different but it was still the Mario brothers. And anyone who says otherwise either didn’t grow up watching this movie or is to afraid praise a movie the internet says is bad. This movie is what happens when you take the game and take it as literally as you can. While also trying to come up with reasons to explain the silliness of the very few games and very limited backstory that we had. The movie actually tried and succeeded in covering and referencing as much of the games at the time. It libraries with alot of things that’s for sure, but it doesn’t change the fact that this movie was a great cyberpunk, Dinopunk, And Fungus-punk film. That was a blast to watch, especially at the time. Did it bomb, yeah but not because kids hated it. It bombed because critics hated it and parents listened to the critics. Just like Batman Returns, do you really believe that kids hated that movie. They may have been spooked by it, but every kid who watched it loved it. The ones who said otherwise were just repeating what their parents and the media told them to say. Like that kid who said Batman Returns was not suitable for kids, he didn’t think that, that’s what his mother and the show host told him to say. If the Super Mario Bros movie was named anything else there wouldn’t be as much hate for it now. It would have been forgotten about until nerds on the internet remember it and started talking about. They would have praised it for being uniquely different and for the creativity of the set’s world props and story. Really it no different then the hundreds of other forgotten 80’s and 90’s cult films that are remembered fondly today.
If only the 1993 movie had stuck with the first draft.
10:29 oW. , my heart
Here's an idea for another episode for "Script To Screen" a video about an earlier script for an American Godzilla movie from 1998. written by the people who write scripts for Aladdin, Shrek, and Pirates Of The Caribbean.
It has almost the same lore as the actual movie. I like this version of the story better than the actual thing
I may make an actual video out of this story for an actual Mario movie
Nice drawings
Why the only thing that they used from the games is Mario and Luigi color suits and the Bomb Omb?
I don't quite hate the live action Mario movie and I do find it to be an interesting part of Nintendo history but I'm not quite part of the cult following it has either. Very interesting information in this video. It's interesting what the movie could've been. I am interested in seeing upcoming animated Mario movie.
I still like the live action sci fi movie
One thing to note about the first draft you read? It's more in line with the games, but the catch is that Mario was a straight up douchebag in the initial draft.
Talk about Sugar Bear from the Sugar Crisp commercials
🎶"Can't get enough of that Sugar Crisp!"🎶
"Homer, I can barely see anything ahead of me. Did you remember to put fog lights in the car?"
🎶"Guess I forgot to put the fog lights in!"🎶
the pictures for the 1st script look like random npcs for a game bootleg or not probably some other things you can think of
I'm going to have to precede this comment with the fact that Mario was one of the BIG childhood franchises I take really seriously (right up there with the Muppets and most of the Disney Afternoon). I HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE the 1993 movie. It's a bad video game movie, a bad Mario adaption, a bad alternate universe Mario movie, a bad movie if it was called "Mikey and Lenny go to Dino World," bad cyberpunk, and not even a good bad movie. Compare it to the first Street Fighter movie, not a good video game movie, but at least so stupid and over the top, it's just charming and delightful. This movie was just disgusting. Now, I will give it credit. John Leguizamo and Dennis Hopper are at least having a crapload of fun, and the practical effects, wrong as they are, were actually quite good and more than the film deserved. Having said that, I did sort of like it when I first saw it as a kid, but overall grew to just hate how the fantasy elements of Mario were tossed aside for bad cyberpunk like 3 years too late to even be relevant.
Having said all that, the early fantasy draft, while not perfect, sounds like it would have been a much more in spirit to the games and delightfully dreamy film, akin to the 1980's family fantasies like Labyrinth. And while I would otherwise not approve Mario being an angry, bitter, sourpuss with sibling rivalry, the emotional turn they took with it was just chef's kiss sweetness. Luigi turning to Mario saying that their mother told him to take care of Mario so he doesn't become a miserable person legitimately had me fighting back tears. There is NO emotional core like that in Cyberpunkio Bros, that's for sure. And yes, I'm chomping at the bit to see the new one. That's the movie my 10 year old self would have wanted. Something that reminds me of the Mario cartoons and comics I loved watching and reading back then.