Nintendo Wants to Get More of Its Games Animated

Danica Davidson May 5, 2021

An animated movie based on the Super Mario Bros. game franchise is scheduled to come out in 2022, but if Nintendo has anything to say about it, this is only the beginning of them turning their products into animation.

“Animation, in general, is something that we are looking into, and not just this [Mario] franchise,” Shuntaro Furukawa, the president of Nintendo, recently said in an interview.

Furukawa didn’t go into much detail on this, but he did speak a bit about the Super Mario Bros. movie and how original creator Shigeru Miyamoto is hard at work with it. “Mr. Miyamoto is very, very hands-on with the production of this movie.”

Source: Cartoon Brew

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Danica Davidson is the author of the bestselling Manga Art for Beginners with artist Melanie Westin, and its sequel, Manga Art for Intermediates, with professional Japanese mangaka Rena Saiya. Check out her other comics and books at www.danicadavidson.com.