The Super Mario Bros. Movie Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

Key Facts

• The film is produced by Illumination founder and CEO Chris Meledandri and by Shigeru Miyamoto for Nintendo. The film will be co-financed by Universal Pictures and Nintendo and released worldwide by Universal Pictures (10/8/2022).
• “Mario and Luigi are two of the most beloved heroes in all of popular culture, and we are honored to have the unique opportunity to work so closely with Shigeru Miyamoto and the widely imaginative team at Nintendo to bring these characters to life in an animated movie, unlike any film Illumination has made to date,” said Chris Meledandri, Illumination’s Founder and CEO, and outside director of Nintendo (9/24/2021).
• Illumination and Nintendo Co., Ltd. today announced that their new animated film based on the world of Super Mario Bros. will be released worldwide during the 2022 holiday season (9/24/2021).
• Super Mario Bros is in “priority development” at Illumination Entertainment and could be in theaters by 2022 (Variety, 11/6/18).
• Shigeru Miyamoto is on-board to produce; he's the creator of Mario and many other Nintendo properties (Variety, 1/31/18).