Nintendo and Illumination announce new movie in “the world of Super Mario Bros.”
Nobody explicitly said it's a sequel to The Super Mario Bros. Movie, but it still could be
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Today is Mario Day, a.k.a. March 10, a.k.a. Mar10 (which looks like “Mario”), meaning it’s the one day of the year when the world comes together to celebrate brotherhood, plumbers, coin collecting, vaguely Italian heritage, and the ceremonial stomping of turtles. When Mario Day carolers go from house to house, saying “Wahoo!” and “Let’s-a go!” in exchange for mushrooms. When we wish for the day we may find our princess, for she remains in another castle. When we all dream of reaching the top of the flagpole and hearing the cacophony of the celebratory fireworks. You know, Mario stuff.
As part of this holy day’s festivities, Nintendo and animation studio Illumination announced that they’re making another movie set in “the world of Super Mario Bros.” Mario’s papa Shigeru Miyamoto and Illumination boss Chris Meledandri shared some details in a special video, like the fact that the team who made last year’s hit Super Mario Bros. Movie is returning for this one—including directors Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic—and that it’s set to be released on April 3, 2026 in the U.S., but there were some other notable things that were suspiciously left out… like whether or not this will be a sequel to last year’s movie or just another movie set in the Super Mario world.
Both Illumination’s video and Nintendo’s tweets about the news neglected to use the word “sequel,” simply saying that this is a new film related to Mario, which means it could actually be some kind of spin-off that doesn’t necessarily focus on the Mario brothers, Peach, and Bowser (though, if we’re talking a Mario sequel, the villain should obviously be the evil frog Wart). If we were to throw out a totally baseless prediction, we’d say it could be a Donkey Kong spin-off, or maybe a Yoshi movie to pay off the post-credits scene from the first one? Yoshi can’t normally talk, so that might be weird, but they’re the ones making the movie.
The other (arguably more likely) option is that we’re reading into this too much and it’s just going to be Super Mario Bros. 2, or maybe it’ll effectively be a sequel but they’ll call it Super Mario World or something (as a nod to the introduction of Yoshi and to avoid giving friendless dorks a chance to say “Buh, what’s about Wart? Hur hur hur.”). We’ll probably know at some point before April 3, 2026.
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Gritty Dr. Mario, where Mario’s a high-flying plastic surgeon. He’s done Peach’s nose, Daisy’s arse, and one day a drop-dead gorgeous nightclub singer femme-fatale called Pauline drops by wanting a pair of double-Ds installed, only her jealous, idiot gangster boyfriend Wario ain’t too keen on another man groping around her tits, even if he is the one installing them…and then, one night, he comes back with a gun, and a shot Waluigi, tell Doc to patch him up, on the quiet, drawing our favourite drainage technician/plastic surgeon in a world of violence, dames, pills, and, of course, shrooms. All of this is built upon the money and drugs tied up New Donk City’s filthy, corruption construction industry…which Mario then has to tear down brick by literal brick…
Now it’s Wario’s time to shine!
And is “heterosexual” life mate Waluigi!
Great, now I really want these two voiced by Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes.
I want it to be Luigi’s Mansion but if it’s not a straight up sequel to the first movie, I feel positive it will be a Donkey Kong Country movie.
They’d better get Kirkhope on the tunes…
It’s actually a Doki Doki Panic movie but reskinned/redubbed to be about Mario.
I think you guys are missing a very obvious clue. They’re planning on releasing this film on Good Friday, i.e. this film is about Mario and his friends commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus Christ through fasting and prayer.
Italy IS a very Catholic country.
big news for children and adults with sad lives!
It’ll be about Birdo’s journey towards self-acceptance.
Finally, a Waluigi porn movie.
I’m thinking the Koopa Kids show up, bust Bowser out of jail so they can get him to command his army to help them (after which he ends up back in a cage and becomes anti-villain-ish for the rest of the movie), and then fight Mario & Friends. I’m shocked they haven’t already announced a Donkey Kong spin-off movie. They set up almost the entire cast! Donkey Kong and Cranky were major characters in the Mario movie, and they even had cameos by some of the DKC classic characters like Dixie and Diddy. We need at least the following sequels and spin-offs:Two more “Super Mario Bros” direct sequelsPeach spin-off movieLuigi spin-off movie that is a version of Luigi’s Mansion2 Donkey Kong movies cribbing from DK 64 and the DKC gamesEnd it with a two-part film that is basically the Super Mario Bros Illumination Avengers Team-Up movie, where they all fight Smithy in a Super Mario Bros RPG adaptation.