More Mario movies are apparently in the works, Mario voice actor Chris Pratt teased in a recent interview, and you might get a glimpse at one of them soon (thanks, IGN).
“It mines this vein of sentiment and meaning from our childhood,” Pratt said. “You have all of this feeling that you almost don’t even realize, going into the movie, how much you care about these characters until you see the outfits, and you hear the music, and you hear the score. So get ready for a lot of these movies.”
While that may just be speculation based on how the cast and crew think the Super Mario Bros. movie will perform, Pratt suggested the film’s post-credit sequence hints at a new movie that may or may not be based on Luigi’s Mansion. He had nothing more definitive to say on the matter, aside from saying he heard there had “been talk” about the project.
Luigi’s Mansion was a launch game for the Nintendo Gamecube in 2001, a spinoff where Mario’s cowardly brother – the “damsel in distress” in the upcoming movie, with Peach empowered as a proper ruler – searches a haunted house for traces of the Big M after he goes missing. Mario is famously absent in the game, so if Pratt has only heard talk about it and not actually worked on the film, that would make sense.
Whatever the case, we won’t have much longer to wait for the tease. The Super Mario Bros. movie releases April 5, 2023, in theaters.
Written by Josh Broadwell on behalf of GLHF
