The Super Mario Bros Movie sequel in the works
 

Nintendo and Illumination announces that they started work on the sequel to the Super Mario Bros Movie, And it will release on April 3rd 2026.

Hopefully the sequel is more fleshed out, more Luigi, Yoshi, and hopefully the Koopalings.

and Bowser Jr.

I still need to see the first one...

Looking forward to getting around to it.

Wonder if Daisy will be in it as well.

Yoshi will be in it no doubt, Because of that post credit scene, But I wanna see Bowser Jr, and the Koopalings in particular because each one has a different personality to them, So that would be fun to see.

I'm excited for it. The first movie was pretty good.

The sequel will be titled Super Mario World.

https://www.reddit.com/r/boxoffice/c...io_bros_movie/

https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/su...r-mario-world/

I think with Yoshi being teased in the post-credits scene and the title being based on the classic SNES game, the Kooplings will probably be in this movie.

The Koopalings not appearing in a Mario World movie would be odd, so I hope we see them.

Is that what we call them? I thought in SMB3 it was "the Koopa Kids."

Nintendo Power's player's guides for that game, as well as for Super Mario World, have also referred to them as Koopalings.

I think their Japanese group name is just "Koopa's minions" or something like that.

The games always called them the Koopalings, or at least the American SMB3 and SMW manuals did. The cartoon called them Koopa Kids and gave them completely different names. Bully, Cheatsy, Cootiepie, etc.

We got an updated version of the "Mario Bros Rap" in the first movie, so hopefully we will get an updated version of this song in the sequel.

Yup I remember! Roy - Bully, Morton - Big Mouth, Ludwig - Kooky, Larry - Cheatsy, Wendy - Kootie Pie, Lemmy and Iggy - Hip and Hop. If Iggy had his current plant-like hairstyle back then, he and Lemmy would've been called something else and not be twins.

I always loved that intro.

And since they are now going with game titles, I have the perfect name in mind for the third Super Mario Bros. movie...

"Super Mario Odyssey" would lend itself well as a fairly satisfying movie, I think.

Galaxy or Sunshine wouldn't be bad either, but probably too "high concept" for a movie.

No they didn't. The SMB3 manual used "Bowser's kids" and the SMW manual "Koopa Kids". The cartoons used both Koopa Kids and Koopalings.

The manual for Super Mario All-Stars for the Wii and an insert with Super Mario World for the GBA referred to them as Koopalings. Not the manuals you mentioned. I don't have any of the Mario games that came after. So I can't vouch for their manuals.

Iggy Koopa was Hip Koopa and Lemmy Koopa was Hop Koopa.

The Japanese didn't name them, but a Nintendo official in the US gave them names. All except for Larry Koopa and Morton Koopa Jr. were named after musicians. Morton's namesake is obvious, but the guy came up with the name Larry for Larry Koopa because he thought he looked like a Larry.

No Lemmy was Hip, Iggy was Hop. I learned this from the World cartoon episode "A Little Learning" where the scene when Peach said Hip's name when she told him to explain his project to the judges (Mario and Luigi) while Iggy (Hop) was underground controlling the volcano.

I decided to look up the Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 episode "7 Continents for 7 Koopas", and you're correct. I could have sworn that Lemmy Koopa was Hop and Iggy Koopa was Hip. I guess it's because of how Lemmy/Hip would sometimes be on a ball, and I think of him hopping on it.

I remember the episode you mentioned though.

Princess: No school tomorrow boys.
Hip or Hop (I can't remember which): You mean it's a holiday?
No, you're expelled! Forever!

I'll probably be in the minority here, but it would be cool if they somehow tied the content from Mario Bros 2 into the Universe on film. I love SMB 2 whether it was a "repurposed game" or not. When that game launched as a kid it was sold out everywhere.....

I wouldn't mind that myself. There was just something about the game since it was so different. I actually got Super Mario Bros. 3 before it though. I had no idea it sold as well as you say.

Me, too. I liked that it was so different.

The first movie was a loose adaption of Super Mario Bros. 1 with real world stuff thrown in. This movie will probably merge Super Mario Bros. 3 and World into one movie, given the title, we know Yoshi is in it, and the Koopalings debuted in Mario 3.

After this the third movie could be a mix of Mario 64 or Sunshine, or even skipping straight to Galaxy if they want to introduce Rosalina right away. There's also been rumors for awhile about a Donkey Kong spinoff movie for his series, I'm surprised nothing came of it so far.

The games and cartoon were different in some ways too. Like how Larry is the youngest Koopaling in the games, but Hip and Hop are the youngest in the cartoons. Iggy was known as the inventor in the choose your own adventure books, while Kooky was the inventor in the cartoon.

A Donkey Kong movie is also in the works.

https://www.comingsoon.net/movies/ne...t-at-universal

Don't expect Mario and Peach to end up as a couple in the sequel. Nintendo insists they are just good friends.

https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/ma...love-nintendo/

That’s always been my head canon!

Everyone knows Peach and Bowser are endgame anyway, she just plays hard to get:P

It's now rumored that sequel will be based on Super Mario Galaxy.

https://wdwnt.com/2025/09/possible-t...-domain-names/

ETA: It's now official and the principal cast from the first film will also return.

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/s...el-1236515440/

Maybe not too high concept after all! Kind of strange they're jumping to Galaxy, though. I would have gone "Super Mario World."

I mean it doesn't have to stick to game canon so why not, although it is indeed raising the stakes a lot. Where do you go after Galaxy for a third movie and beyond?
The introduction of Yoshi and other Mario universe worlds was likely enough for a sequel, basically mixing ideas form SMB3/World/other 2D Marios. But whatever as long as they deliver a fun movie that's all I care about.

That's what I mean. Though... "Odyssey," I guess? Odyssey is very much the spiritual successor of Mario Galaxy 1 and 2. Traveling between other planets and all.

I was hoping the sequel would have been Mario 3 or World. Seems weird to jump straight to galaxy

Kinda makes me want to fire up Super Mario Galaxy for the 3D All Stars and see what that looks like on the Switch 2 now.

Yeah it's a shame they're rushing. The second movie should of been a hybrid movie of Mario 3 and World together. Then save Galaxy for the third movie.

They are rushing the Mario timeline and lore. Mario lore has the deepest lore in all of gaming.

I mean, the first 4 Mario games didn't have much of a storyline going for it outside of "Bowser kidnaps the Princess", and that was established in the first movie. Besides, if we wanted them to follow the game timeline, then Donkey Kong should have been the first big bad instead of Bowser.

To be fair the story of the Galaxy games is also Bowser kidnaps the princess even if done with more bells and whistles.

Imagine if the Sonic movie had blown their load with Shadow on the second movie despite only teasing Tails at the end of the first movie. Sure Sonic 2 the game didn't have too much story either but by adding Knuckles from the Sonic 3 Game then you had a solid Sonic 2 movie. Same with Super Mario Bros 3 / World and other ideas from the New Super Mario Bros series.

Lumalee was my favorite character in the first movie, I hope he appears again.

True but the first Galaxy game involves trying to stop Bowser from destroying the world.

The Sonic movie timeline is showing you can go backwards though, because they waited 4 movies to introduce Metal Sonic when he debuted in the first game.