Nintendo submitted original sketches of the family for Super Mario Bros.: The Movie.
Super Mario Bros.: The Movie is breaking all records at the box office and will compete at the Oscars with the theme Peaches. Video game fans have been very satisfied with the final result of the film that adapts the Nintendo’s most iconic series. It is a feature film full of details that can be easily recognized and other hints that are more difficult to see. The last thing we’ve heard is that the Mario’s father it is based on an original sketch that Nintendo never used.
The Japanese creative Shigeru Miyamoto has supervised the project, something that can be seen in many scenes. Super Mario Bros.: The movie has become a ode to the plumber games, in addition to telling the origins of the character in a closer way. In the first minutes, you can see unpublished characters from Mario and Luigi’s family like their parents. In a interview with Polygonco-director Aaron Horvath revealed that Mario’s father is a version very close to the original.
This is because Nintendo shared original sketches for the making of the film. “They sent us sketches of characters that they had done years ago and that they had never used; Mario’s father is almost like a one-to-one design adaptation of the original design of Mario’s dad that they provided us. It was really cool to be able to include that in the movie.”Horvath explained. Something similar happened with the rest of the family, but Horvath acknowledged that more liberties were taken with other characters like the grandfather who “he looks a little more like Mario”.
Charles Martinet is Mario’s father in the animated film
To the great surprise of the fans, the movie is very accurate in many aspects like the platforms, the pipes or the scary personality of Luigi. Super Mario Bros.: The Movie has a great cameo that could not be missing. Charles Martinet is the original voice of Mario in the video games, but in the film he plays up to 2 different characters both in original version and in Spanish. Martinet gives the voice to Mario’s father and Giuseppe, a character dressed as Jumpman who appears at the beginning playing an arcade machine.
A great nod to the beginnings of super mario That did not go unnoticed by the fans. If you have missed something, we also tell you the explanation of the post-credits scenes of the film. So you can look at all the details in a second review, since there are dozens of references to games like Mario Kart, Donkey Kong or the mythical Super Mario 64.