Universal Confirms 'Super Mario Bros' Will Become A Franchise

TV & Film

Nov 18

The 2023 Super Mario Bros. Movie was, to put it lightly, a massive success. With an all star cast, fantastic score, charming animation, endless references to the games, and fun plot, the movie broke box office records around the world, ultimately bringing in almost 1.4 billion dollars against a 100 million dollar budget. This is obviously a success by any measure.

While the film wasn’t a huge hit with critics, with a 59% critics score on Rotten Tomatoes, but a score of 95% from the audience. With success on that level, more films were inevitable.

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Now, the end of the film teased sequel bait, but so far nothing concrete has been announced, but according to the Universal Pictures profile for chairman and CCO of Universal Studios Donna Langley, The Super Mario Bros. Movie is considered a ‘franchise’ by the studio. That does seem to imply that we’re getting more than one sequel, especially if the teased sequel has anywhere near the success of the original film.

Again, though, nothing concrete has been announced, so it’s impossible to say when we’d get even the first sequel. There’s no doubt that Universal knows they have something, though. We probably haven’t even scratched the surface of Mario and Luigi on the big screen.

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