When Annabel Jankel and Rocky Morton in 1993 Super Mario Bros.. It was released in the theaters in the spring of 1993, it was almost immediately mixed by critics and fans of the Nintendo video games. The fans were angry that the film had no resemblance to the games, transforming their weird, friendly cartoon kingdom, setting into metal, dirt, "Blade Runner" Urban Dystopia. The villain of the games, a wicked fire co -operation (a variation of the Chinese turtle dragon, essentially) by the name of Bauser, was also converted into a humanoid dinosaur named King Coopa, played by Dennis Hopper.

The story was also completely original. "Super Mario Bros." It is based on the premise that the meteor that killed the dinosaurs actually created a parallel time schedule. In one, dinosaurs died, primates climbed to importance, and Homo Sapiens evolved on earth. In the other, the dinosaurs lived, continued to develop and eventually became humanoids just like us. In the 1990s Brooklyn, the Mario Mario Brothers (Bob Hoskins) and Luhnon Leguzamo find a portal between the two dimensions and stumble into Dino's world. There, the brothers and sisters in Mario should save a dinosaur princess (Samantha Matisse) and prevent the King's co -operation from merging his dimension to theirs.

Nintendo's Super Mario Bros.. The games were very surreal to start, so it may be unreasonable to make direct adaptation. However, Jankel and Morton's film was too dramatic for many people. It said, "Super Mario Bros." There are many passionate defenders who appreciate its originality, striking designs of sets and strange ideas.

The relationship between the Mario brothers was fraternal, but it was also found that the old Mario raised the younger, Feistier Luigi after the unnamed tragedy liked their parents. Hoskins and Leguizamo have good chemistry in this regard. According to the 1992 article in Los Angeles TimesAlthough, the early draft of the film's script - written by Barry More of the fame "Main Rain" - described their relationship as more gentle and dramatic ... as in, more like the one among the brothers in "Rain Man".

Also, it will be a foretelling movie.

It must be emphasized immediately that the development of Super Mario Bros.. It was troubled from the beginning. Nintendo licensed "Super Mario Bros." US film studio property, telling their directors that they can do what they want. (Nintendo realized that his brand was strong enough.) The executives, however, had a problem extrapolating a story from the games of the games (brave hero saves a kidnapped princess from a dragon -like creature). Tomorrow was the first writer hired to work on the project, and he was quite "I got" because he had just won an Academy Award for writing "Rain Man". Since the Mario brothers are plumbers, some insiders even colloquially referred to the draft -the play of tomorrow as a "drain man".

According to the Times article, More's script was also a deliberate knockout of "rain man" ... as well as foretelling the events of "Super Mario". Games. More specifically, tomorrow it predicted the film that is fully in the real world, before Mario and Luigi leave the country to go to the adventures to fight the Kopa in the kingdom with mushrooms.

"Rain Man," remembers, is a movie about Charlie (Tom Cruise)Collector collectors dealer, tasked with taking care of his brother with autism Raymond (Dustin Hoffman). Charlie and Raymond eventually learn to care for each other as they go on a prolonged trip where they get to know each other. Tomorrow's script for Super Mario Bros.. He put Mario in the role of Charlie and Luigi in the role of Raymond, with the couple going on a similar journey - looking for video games, kind - leading to them to approach. In order to distinguish the project from "Rain Man", these versions of Mario and Luigi were only regular guys with blue-collar; None of them was a fat -masso collectors dealer. The film will then end before something fantastic happens.

The Mario Bros. version is just as much as Jankel/Morton, of course, though it can be seen immediately why it would be unreasonable. According to the "Temer" article, one of the project producers had to explain to More that Super Mario Bros.. It should be a widely attractive blockbuster of adventurous activities within the ETS-Wonzemic, Batman, Ghostbusters, and even Terminator 2: Day of the verdict. "Rain Man" was also a blockbuster, I warn you, but not the kind of studio directors they loved here.

Subsequent attempts to adapt to Super Mario Bros.. They were not okay. These were the screenwriters Jimim Ennenevane and Tom S. Parker (Jannewein wrote the 1990s as "Richie Rich" and "Flintstons") who thought Super Mario Bros.. It should be constructed as the "Wizard of Oz", with the brochure traveling from our country in a parallel world, just to serve as satire of fairy tales. It was "Shrek" a decade before Shrek. However, after a few more juggling, it was not collected.

Producer Roland Offof, best known for Terse Dramas like "The Killing Fields" and "The Mission", was a big fan of Max Headroom, and eventually approached the creators of the show, the team of Morton and Morton's wife and Jankel. They were the ones who came up with the bizarre idea of ​​a dinosaur dimension for the film, and Offoff wanted it. The rest is history. It should also be noted that the "Super Nintendo" game "Super Mario World"-in a creature in the form of a dinosaur named Yoshi-recently published, so making a movie in Mario for the dinosaurs was not 100% out of the kingdom.

As we all know now, Super Mario Bros.. It was a huge bomb in its critical and commercial performance. It will take 30 years for Another "Super Mario Bros.". Film adaptation To see the light of day.