In what’s certainly a shock, Nintendo’s confirmed a second Tremendous Mario Bros. film is within the works.
With March 10 being Mario Day, there’s been some non-game releated Mario bulletins. Longtime designer Shigeru Miyamoto took to Twitter to disclose Illumination is already at work on the sequel, which is anticipated to drop on April 3, 2026. For the sequel, each Illumination and Nintendo’s employees shall be collaborating on the movie collectively. Whereas he didn’t have something to say concerning the forged or what to anticipate, Miyamoto teased the group was “fascinated by broadening Mario’s world additional, and it’ll have a brilliant and enjoyable story. We hope you’ll look ahead to it!”
The primary Tremendous Mario Bros. film got here out in April 2023 with nobody understanding the way it’d shake out, given the final time Mario got here to the silver display was…form of a mess. Regardless of a blended reception, the Illumination movie discovered an viewers because of its animation and the quantity of fan service crammed into it, to say nothing of the truth that it’s a Mario film and we’re in an age of prety stable online game diversifications. It went on to gross $1.36 billion {dollars}, turning into the second highest-grossing movie of 2023 (behind Barbie) and the third-highest grossing animated movie of all time (behind The Lion King and Frozen II). Oh, and it was nominated for three Golden Globes and acquired uploaded to Twitter weeks after coming to theaters.
So large was that first Tremendous Mario that it mainly reversed Nintendo’s complete stance on transmedia in a single day. Final November, the corporate revealed it was working with Sony on a live-action Legend of Zelda movie, and that Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’ director Wes Ball had been tapped to direct.
Tremendous Mario Bros. 2—or no matter it finally ends up being referred to as—will launch on April 3, 2026 within the US and different territories. It’ll launch all through the month for different unspecified areas.
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