Composer Grant Kirkhope is a legend for a certain generation of Nintendo fans, having created iconic music tracks for Rare classics like GoldenEye 007, Banjo-Kazooie, and Donkey Kong 64. In 2023, The Super Mario Bros. Movie rather infamously sampled the latter game's opening DK Rap while leaving Kirkhope out of the credits, and it seems he's still annoyed enough about the whole ordeal that he still hasn't seen the film.
Kirkhope commented publicly on Twitter about his exclusion from the credits at the time, and because he'd recently worked with Nintendo on the arrangements for the Banjo-Kazooie music added to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, he had a contact at the publisher. So he reached out to find out what the deal with the credits was.
