Nintendo planning to make movies
 

Pokemon movies still come out annually, the 19th pokemon movie hits this July.

I suppose these will be CG with Pixar like graphics. Mario and Zelda are probably the two obvious ones.

Yeah, I'd love to see a movie where the main character doesn't even speak. :roll:

I can't see most Nintendo properties making a successful jump to film. Their IPs are just not story oriented. What possible story could you make for Mario? Sure he's one of the most iconic characters ever made but so is Mickey Mouse and when was his last movie released? There's a reason for that. The Legend of Zelda's stories are pretty bare bones as it is, I can see a decent movie being made either live action or CG but I doubt it'd be too successful and it'd be really easy to mess it up. Metroid? Same situation as Zelda. I can't think of any other franchise that could pull off a movie. Maybe a Star Fox CG movie.TV shows could definitely work for a few franchises like Star Fox. Kirby has already been done but that worked out.

The movies that Nintendo plan to make ain't going to be live-action; this tweet clears up this:

https://twitter.com/serkantoto/statu...87350327156736

I see what you mean, but it wouldn't be hard to drop the framework of a typical love/adventure story onto of Zelda or Mario movie. Show Mario/Link as the humble peasant with a crush on the princess, she gets taken, Mario/Link does the whole heroes journey triumphing over evil and winning over the girls heart in the process. It'd be typical, but not impossible.

That's cool, I hope they make a CGI Star Fox movie, that's one IP that works best as an animated film.

All I want is a Metroid movie.

You're jumping way ahead in the cinematic universe.

Pokemon is tried & true, would be cool to see them do a quality CG film in the vein of those Pikachu opening features.

I was just thinking about the old mario movie and how easy it would be to make a decent Super Mario Bros. movie. In live action or animated.

It's just guy rescues princess from evil monsters in a colorful fantasy world. Why was that so difficult to do before?

I'd prefer live action. It could look really pretty.

I am hoping for Metroid, Legend of Zelda, Castlevania, Star Tropics, Super Dodge Ball, Secret of Mana, Earthbound, and Gargoyle's Quest.

If Capcon is involved then Megaman and Breath of Fire.

If Squire gets involved then Final Fantasy, Chrono Trigger, and Dragon Quest.

I heard the movies Nintendo wants to make, are 3D CGI animated movies, not live action ones.

Kirby movie. Make it so.

I'm hoping they go animated. Also hoping that this doesn't turn out like the 90's Mario Bros. movie.

Guess we note know why that Disney game was cancelled.

Maybe we'll see that Zelda movie after all.

As long as it's better than the show.

It makes a lot more sense to make them animated, you can do more with that then live action.

I saw someone mention Lord & Miller doing an animated Super Mario Bros movie which seems so obvious. It won't happen but I'd be pretty excited for that.

Yeah, Star Fox is better suited for CGI since it has talking anthropomorphic animals.

If they take this seriously, a good Mario movie could come out of this. Zelda? Well Link is supposed to be a silent protagonist, so I dunno how that would work.

Do iiiiit.

A concept for a Pixar-level Super Mario Bros movie has taken up real estate in my brain for like 15 years. There's no reason that can't work beautifully.

Nintendo wanting to self-finance is a good sign, I think. They know how their properties work, and they've got... reasons... not to trust just licensing them out.

Haha, I totally forgot about that. It used to come on before TMNT in the 4kids days.

Yeah I could see a CGI animated movie for Super Mario Bros done in a art style similar to Wreck-It Ralph.

Lets go starfox movie!

honestly though... theres alot riding on the success of their first film...

hoping for the best...

Apparently there was an Animal Crossing movie that only came out in Japan a number of years ago, I don't know if it was good or not.

It was really good. If you like Animal Crossing, anyway!

Bayonetta movie pls. :tlove:

I want her to strut, pole dances and touching every inch of her sexy body.

Bayonetta doesn't belong to them, that's Platinum Games.

Is it subbed anywhere?

Somewhere, surely. I saw it subbed.

There already is a Bayonetta movie.

We need a good mario movie. Not that crappy live action thing that they made long ago.

The only nintendo franchise I can think of which has taken advantages of its popularity and made good movies is pokemon.

Just Imagine the possibilities with Nintendo making movies of all its franchises. Having Star fox, Donkey Kong and Metroid on the big screen could make for some fine entertainment. The potential is there.

I don't think Mario translates all that well into movies especially the new ones that seem to have less plot then the original Nintendo games.

I can see Metroid and Zelda translating well though.

I would love a Breath of Fire and Chrono Trigger movie(s) but they would look better as anime.

Earthbound would be better off as a mini-series or TV show.

What I wouldn't give to see a well done cgi animated show based on FFVI.

The Animal Crossing movie is great, I watched it a long time ago but for something that you'd think wouldn't be able to do it justice was able to have the same essence as the game. The fact that I don't know Japanese probably made the movie better as well since they were still speaking gibberish to me. I need to re-watch it.

Might as well mention the other licensed Nintendo Material that I've watched since Nintendo keeps mentioning they're now licensing happy again like back in the 80s. This is awesome since I liked the stuff they had when they were more license happy and the bad thing about NoJ having full control of the company and not NOA was that they didn't allow any more licensing.

Super Mario Super Show: Not a big fan since most of the episode are just a lame kids version of some other famous story. I've only watched a handful of episodes but I'll give it a shot soon enough.

Super Mario Bros 3: Unlike the previous show this one was so out there that it was fun to watch, I'll also marathon this one soon along SMW which I never saw.

The Legend of Zelda: This show gets a bad rap on the internet but it's fairly entertaining especially since they only had the first game to make a cartoon from. Many things that appeared in this show actually became Zelda staples later on like Link's fairy and horse.

Donkey Kong Country: Just watched it last year since it's entire run is on youtube legally. I had only seen a little bit as a kid and it's definitely a product of its time. I like it but it has plenty of flaws that people usually point out but people forget this was aimed at younger kids.

Captain N: Love this show and the concept, I'd love a new Nintendo only version of this show but I don't see it happening. Does Nintendo even the two main characters Kevin and Lana? I really liked them. I know Nintendo had a big say on the DVD release of the show so even though there were some third party game characters it did seem like Nintendo actually owns enough to have a say in it.

The Wizard: Absolutely Cheesy but that's what makes this movie so "bad". Love it. It'd be hard to re-create something like this again though.

SMB The Movie: Haven't watched it since I was a kid but I remember thinking it was really weird and even though I said I liked it I don't think I really did. For the person in this thread who said SMB can actually work as a live action movie he's just crazy I don't know what he's on but he should share it. Good thing they mentioned this movie as an example of something they didn't want to do.

Pokemon: I'm a fan and for the most part does a decent job at showing you the Pokemon world.

Kirby Right Back at ya': The 4Kids dub was so out there that it made it enjoyable to me. Kirby doing whatever the f-ck it wanted only made the show better.