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Nintendo Eyeing the Big Screen
techstar25 writes "Coming soon reports that video game giant Nintendo is going to Hollywood by creating an in-house unit to develop animated features based on the numerous properties owned by the company. The plan calls for Nintendo to create a movie based on one of its own franchises for theatrical release in 2006. The original story is from Variety (reg. required)." It doesn't really say what properties to expect, but obviously it's Excite Bike.
The plan calls for Nintendo to create a movie based on one of its own franchises for theatrical release in 2006
Sadly, it will be marketed to the kids and useless parents who cannot say "No!" will take the sprogs, ensuring huge profits.
Also watch for:
The McSuper McMario Happy Meal!
Metroid Special Edition Pepsi!
Mr. Driller Bubble Gum Flavoured Toothpaste!
and the drones will gobble it all up...
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yeah.....because Super Mario Brothers was great! .......
Although a Zelda movie would be pretty neat.
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haven't we done this several times before. hell, even with a nintendo property. anyone still remember the crappy mario brothers movie? and we've already seen more pokemon movies than anyone should ever have to endure.
if they want any hope of pulling this off, it *has* to be animated (like final fantasy). and it has to be targeted at a real and intelligent adult audience. this simply won't work if it's targeted at 8-14 year olds.
even then, it needs to be a powerful franchise. metroid - doable. zelda - doable (potentially in the vein of LoTR). but, excite bike? what are they going to do? make it like The Fast and the Furious with Mario as referee?
i guess all we can do is wait and see, but i'm not holding my breath for anything groundbreaking.
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This is not what this announcement is about. Nintendo are moving into Japanese Animation, to produce movies akin to the likes of Studio Ghibli's productions. The latest Ghibli movie looks set to gross over $450 million in Japan alone, You can see why Nintendo would want in on that market.
Yes, this may end up as a vehicle to cross-promote their games, but the first slated movie that they are said to produce is based on collections of centuries old Japanese literature.
Doesn't exactly sound like a Mario movie.
Super Mario Brothers isn't in the Bottom 100, but IT SHOULD BE!
I swear they could have done a good film, but the feel of it is that they filmed it in one day and threw it together. There were probably merchandising tie-ins, which probably failed miserably. It's poor execution like this on Hot Property which does the whole genre serious damage.
It'll probably take years for people to trust Hollywood enough to see another Dr. Suess movie, though it seems a lot of people ignored the early warnings and saw it anyway.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Then again, I also liked Final Fantasy (it was nonsensical plotwise, just like the game) and I thought the first Tomb Raider movie was good, though I didn't go see the second one.
Murphy was an optimist.
It is your solemn duty let the Washington Post know they can't get away with this kind of abuse.
Go to their contact form immediately and let them know how offensive Rob Pegoraro's article was. If anyone knows Rob's personal email address, I'd love to have that, too.
TRON was a movie before it was a game. Kind of a big difference there...
Although a Zelda movie would be pretty neat.
No, it wouldn't.
Don't you remember thinking "Oh, an Alien VS Predator would be neat!" or "Man, I can't wait for the Matrix sequels!" or "Hurrah! SW: Episode One comes out today!"?
Videogames are neat. Movies are neat.
Put 'em together and you have crap. Either a crappy videogame based on a movie or a crappy movie based on a game. Stop deluding yourself, it's not healthy.
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The problem with FF:TSW, was that it wasn't Final Fantasy. Had they simply called it The Spirits Within, it would have been an alright movie, but they called it Final Fantasy. Where was the rousing score, the magic, chocobos, moogles, or summons? Nothing that makes Final Fantasy seprate from any other fantacy title was there, so it became a huge let down. When you hear 'Final Fantasy,' there are somethings you can just expect, and none of that, except for a guy named Cid, was there.
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Considering that the Wizard was not much more than a low-budget multimedia marketing campaign for the unreleased Super Mario Bros. 3, a game which then went on to be the best selling standalone videogame of all time, you might say that it was a crappy movie but you can't say that it went wrong for Nintendo.