Nintendo planning to make movies

[Prowler]

It's hard to adapt a video game into a movie because they're two different mediums and tw odifferent experiences. Per example, no way they could make an animated movie consisting of just Mario going throuhg levels like in the games.

There have been several Zelda manga adaptations. I've read Ocarina and Major's Mask manga adaptations. Obviously the games are a lot more fun and the adaptations had quite different retellings of the events/story, but they were fine for what they were.

[sdp]

The problem with adapting videogames that most people don't seem to grasp is that part of what makes a story so epic in a game is that you played through all those hazards and when you try to re-create that in a movie/show there just isn't enough there to get you hooked and the experience of "going through" the hazards is gone. It's just something that cannot be recreated in a movie/show with a few exceptions.

I don't think most of Nintendo's IPs would be good at this but who knows. Star Fox could definitely work. Kid Icarus I guess already had the anime shorts before his new game came out. Mario I find it very hard to do. Zelda could go either way. I didn't watch the Pikmin shorts but those seemed to work.

[Prowler]

Originally Posted by sdp

The problem with adapting videogames that most people don't seem to grasp is that part of what makes a story so epic in a game is that you played through all those hazards and when you try to re-create that in a movie/show there just isn't enough there to get you hooked and the experience of "going through" the hazards is gone. It's just something that cannot be recreated in a movie/show with a few exceptions.

I don't think most of Nintendo's IPs would be good at this but who knows. Star Fox could definitely work. Kid Icarus I guess already had the anime shorts before his new game came out. Mario I find it very hard to do. Zelda could go either way. I didn't watch the Pikmin shorts but those seemed to work.

True.

Nintendo franchises such as Mario and Zelda would work better in cartoon/anime format. Mario would just turn into an episodic cartoon with Bowser getting his plans foiled at the end of every episode. Star Fox... I could see it working fine in an animated filme trilogy or something like that.

You mentioned Animal Crossing had an animated film which was quite good and that surprised me considering I can't imagine AC working in anything other than in a short 5-10 min episode OVA or something like that.

[JTH]

Go for it, I want an NCU.

Start with a Kirby movie, then Metroid, then Donkey Kong, then Legend of Zelda, then Star Fox, then Kid Icarus, then Mario Bros., then Pokemon, all leading to Nintendo's Smash Bros.

[sdp]

Well I kept talking about a Star Fox movie or show happening and it looks like we might finally get one. I don't think it's a spoiler but Star Fox stole the Mario Galaxy movie. There's no way they spent all that time on animating fox to not make a spin-off.

I'm updating my previous predictions from the mario movie thread here:

Originally Posted by sdp

Nintenbros we're getting a new Nintendo movie every year for the next decade basically.

2026 Mario Movie 2
2027 Zelda Movie
2028 Donkey Kong Movie
2029 Mario Movie 3
2030 Zelda Movie 2
2031 (Star Fox?/Metroid?/Kirby?)
2032 Donkey Kong movie 2
2033 Zelda Movie 3
2034 sequel to 2031 movie
2035 Mario Movie 4

I would guess Illumination has already negotiated the rights for Star Fox, and well Zelda is being done by Sony, so if Nintendo doesn't care they could allow perhaps Zelda and Star Fox to release the same year, after all my prediction while somewhat what I believed was for the most part just a meme.

If the DK movie does become a thing I do think it would come out in 2028. Star Fox would likely come out in 2029. Would they really wait 4 years to make another Mario movie? I guess Mario 3 could come out in 2028 or 2029 if neither DK or SF take the dates.

I actually don't think or want to get a Smash Bros movie, it makes no sense, not even the games stories, despite all the other nintendo cameos in the Mario movie, there's no cinematic universe. If anything they seem to really enjoy nostalgia from the 80s cartoons, I'm crossing my fingers Captain N gets a cameo one day.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by sdp

I actually don't think or want to get a Smash Bros movie, it makes no sense, not even the games stories, despite all the other nintendo cameos in the Mario movie, there's no cinematic universe.

It'd make sense enough. "The Master" (that giant hand, right?) would cause some ruckus gathering up a big group heroes to fight each other from inside and outside the Nintendo cinematic universe. It'd even be rather timely since this is more or less exactly what Avengers: Doomsday and/or Avengers: Secret Wars will be about. I don't think it needs to be much more complex than that.