In 1993, Super Mario Bros. It became the first feature of live -based live -based film. Didn't go well. Budget of somewhere south of $ 50 million, "Super Mario Bros.". Earn a scarce $ 20 million In the United States, it has had poor performance abroad. His failure was essentially a fact given the turmoil behind the scenes that made directors Annabel Jankel and Rocky Morton briefly closed outside the mounting hall, but the film itself was a kind of Hollywood debacle that was too strange to neglect. The design of the production was striking, the effects of inventive creatures, and the casting is extremely bizarre. Bob Hoskins as Mario faces Dennis Hopper like the King Co -? This may not seem strange today, but at that time it was bizarre to see dear actors who seem to fall into what many considered a celebrated piece of advertising.

As a fierce gamer at the time, I found that weird. Yes, I was obsessed to beat the "Sonic 2" hedgehog on my Sega Genesis, but as the main theater in my first year at college, I never stopped to think about how wonderful it would be to watch a movie with Sonic and Tails. . The same goes for Nintendo's Mario-Stich. Theoretically, I could see how the Princess Pitch rescue could be a narrative fever, but I didn't play the game for the story. I played for the excitement to beat the game. (And not doing the teaching.)

My melody would have changed if Jeffrey Katzenberg knocked down the door of my dormitory and threw $ 1 million on my unwilling bed while I was busy with a fool of "NHLPA HOCKEY '93". For that money, I would treat Super Mario Bros. As if it were "war and peace". But if I no Money is needed, why bother? Obviously, some of the biggest Hollywood actors thought the same when they were offered millions of dollars to actually act in the film.

According to the 1992 Los Angeles Times post For the bombing of Super Mario Bros., Disney had a very ambitious wish list during film development. Initially, Danny Devito played Mario and tried to sweeten the contract by offering him a director's chair. He refused. At one point, Tom Hanks are committed to playing Luigi, but the studio continued after the star suffered serious turbulence at the 1990 box office with "Joe Versus the Volcano" and "Bonfire of the Vanities" (which, judging by their production dates. , he probably released Hanks to appear in "sleepless in Seattle").

The studio directed the same high when it was about the part of the co -operation. They did not approach anyone else but Arnold Schwarzenegger to play the main enemy of Mario and Luigi, who at the time had just acted in the revolutionary action/scientific-fiction blockbuster "Terminator 2: Judgment Day". Austrian oak has passed, though it is difficult to say that he chose wisely by deciding on John Maktiran's "Last Action Hero "'s blurred omission (which seized part of the 1993 box office from Super Mario Bros. as far as the entertainment industry reporting). Disney also checked for Michael Keaton's availability, but the star of Batman and Batman was back "did not want to return to the franchise.

Roles of one of the aforementioned stars (especially Schwarzenegger and Keaton at that moment) at Super Mario Bros. It would probably increase the production budget by $ 15 million to $ 20 million, making the film for centuries. Instead, it's a strange curiosity, a cinematographic noodle that is so fun that you want to fight for it.