"Super Mario Bros. (film) Super Mario Bros. is a 1993 American fantasy adventure film based on the Japanese video game series of the same name and the game Super Mario Bros. by Nintendo. It was directed by Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel, written by Parker Bennett, Terry Runté and Ed Solomon, and distributed by Walt Disney Studios through Hollywood Pictures. It stars Bob Hoskins, John Leguizamo, Dennis Hopper, Samantha Mathis, Fisher Stevens, Fiona Shaw and Richard Edson. The film follows the Mario brothers (Hoskins and Leguizamo), who rescue Princess Daisy (Mathis) from a parallel universe ruled by the ruthless President"
"""Super Mario Galaxy"" and its sequel. Charles Martinet Charles Andre Martinet (; ; born September 17, 1955) is an American actor and voice actor. He is best known for voicing Mario in the ""Super Mario"" video game series. Martinet has voiced this title character of Nintendo's flagship video game franchise since 1990, and he also voices related characters such as Baby Mario, Luigi, Baby Luigi, Wario, Waluigi, and Toadsworth. Martinet is of French descent and speaks fluent French and Spanish. His family moved to Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain when he was 12 years old, and later his family moved to Paris,"
"(1984); ""Mixed Blood"" (1985), ""Casualties of War"" (1989), a terrorist in ""Die Hard 2"" (1990), ""Hangin' with the Homeboys"" (1991), the robber in ""Regarding Henry"" (1991), ""Super Mario Bros"" (1993), and ""Night Owl"" (1993). In 1992, he starred in ""Whispers in the Dark"" as John Castillo. In 1993 Leguizamo was offered the lead part as Luigi in the film ""Super Mario Bros."", based on the Mario video game franchise. Despite being considered a critical and financial failure universally, the film started his acting career in Hollywood and became one of his memorable roles. It also provided a boost to his"
"several awards for this role, and in the same year received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role as an alcoholic assistant basketball coach in ""Hoosiers"". In 1988, he directed ""Colors"", a critically acclaimed police procedural about gang violence in Los Angeles starring Sean Penn and Robert Duvall. He was nominated for an Emmy Award for the 1991 HBO film ""Paris Trout"". Shortly thereafter, he played drug smuggler and DEA informant Barry Seal in the HBO film ""Doublecrossed"". He starred as King Koopa in ""Super Mario Bros."", a 1993 critical and commercial failure loosely based on the"
"Charles Martinet Charles Andre Martinet (; ; born September 17, 1955) is an American actor and voice actor. He is best known for voicing Mario in the ""Super Mario"" video game series. Martinet has voiced this title character of Nintendo's flagship video game franchise since 1990, and he also voices related characters such as Baby Mario, Luigi, Baby Luigi, Wario, Waluigi, and Toadsworth. Martinet is of French descent and speaks fluent French and Spanish. His family moved to Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain when he was 12 years old, and later his family moved to Paris, France. He attended the American School"
"Super Hornio Brothers Super Hornio Brothers and Super Hornio Brothers II are two 1993 pornographic parodies of the ""Super Mario"" video game series released at the same time as the series' official film, ""Super Mario Bros."" Both films star director Buck Adams, along with T. T. Boy, Ron Jeremy and Chelsea Lynx together as the main characters. The films gained new interest after a write-up by a Something Awful reviewer. Nintendo bought the rights to the films to halt their distribution. Programmer Squeegie Hornio (Ron Jeremy), based on Luigi, and his brother Ornio Hornio (T.T. Boy), based on Mario, are"
"John Leguizamo John Alberto Leguizamo (; Spanish: ; born July 22, 1964) is an American actor, stand-up comedian, film producer, playwright, and screenwriter. He came to prominence with a co-starring role in the action comedy ""Super Mario Bros."" (1993) as Luigi and a supporting role in the crime drama ""Carlito's Way"" (1993). Other roles include Sid the Sloth in the animated ""Ice Age"" films (2002–2016) and the narrator of the sitcom ""The Brothers García"" (2000–2004). As of 2009, he has appeared in over 75 films, produced over 10 films, starred on Broadway in several productions (winning several awards), made over"
"2000). In 2008, Leguizamo received the Rita Moreno HOLA Award for Excellence from the Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors (HOLA). In 2011, he received the Made in NY Award from New York City. In 2018, Leguizamo received an Honorary Degree from Marymount Manhattan College. John Leguizamo John Alberto Leguizamo (; Spanish: ; born July 22, 1964) is an American actor, stand-up comedian, film producer, playwright, and screenwriter. He came to prominence with a co-starring role in the action comedy ""Super Mario Bros."" (1993) as Luigi and a supporting role in the crime drama ""Carlito's Way"" (1993). Other roles include Sid"
"unique showman, with an elongated beard, rubber band facial piercings, and loud outfits, Albano was the forefather of the 1980s Rock 'n' Wrestling Connection. Collaborating with Cyndi Lauper, Albano helped usher in wrestling's crossover success with a mainstream audience. Capitalizing on his success, he later ventured into Hollywood with various television, film, and music projects. He became well known to a new generation of fans as the actor and voice of Mario in ""The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!"" Albano's parents, Carmen Louis Albano and Eleanor Albano ""née"" Morrone, were of Italian heritage but both born in the United States."
"in 2003 for """". In 2012 after Charles Martinet voiced Mario declaring himself ""Mario Mario"" at the San Diego Comic-Con the next month Satoru Iwata said he had no last name, which Shigeru Miyamoto agreed with the month after. Two months after Iwata's death in July 2015, Miyamoto changed his stance September 2015 at the Super Mario Bros. 30th Anniversary festival, asserting that his name was indeed Mario Mario. Mario debuted as ""Jumpman"" in the arcade game ""Donkey Kong"" on July 9, 1981. He is shown to be a carpenter and has a pet ape called Donkey Kong. The carpenter"
"""Super Mario Bros. Movie"", a 15-minute video piece about the life and times of Nintendo's Mario. The piece consisted of a hacked Nintendo Entertainment System video-game cartridge where the backgrounds and scenarios were altered and rearranged into a narrative story about the game world becoming corrupted and Mario's existential crises about being a video game character. The movie debuted at Deitch Projects in New York in 2005. Wyld File consisted of the duo Ben Jones and Jacob Ciocci, in collaboration with Eric Mast (better known as E*ROCK). Wyld File is a commercial entity that makes lo-fi music videos for artists"
"on shampoo bottles, cereal, badges, board games, and as a plush toy. Nintendo produced a 60-minute anime film based on the original ""Super Mario Bros."" titled """" in 1986, although this film has not been released outside Japan and has not been released on any home video format except VHS. The animated series ""The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!"" featured a live-action series of skits which starred former WWF manager ""Captain"" Lou Albano as Mario and Danny Wells as Luigi. Mario appeared in a book series, the Nintendo Adventure Books. Mario has inspired unlicensed paintings, performances on talent shows such"
"Danny Wells Jack Westelman (April 7, 1941 – November 28, 2013), known as Danny Wells, was a Canadian actor, voice actor and composer. He is best known for his role as Charlie the bartender on ""The Jeffersons"" as well as his role as Luigi in the live-action/animated series ""The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!"". Wells was born in Montreal, Canada to Eli and Eunice Westelman on April 7, 1941. His acting career spanned more than 4 decades, beginning in 1972 on the comedy television show, ""Love, American Style"". In 1975 Wells made his film debut in ""The Strongest Man in"
"never finished,"" said Joffé. ""You work a screenplay all the time. When you bring actors in a screenplay goes through another evolution. So you can say that rather like the fungus in the movie the screenplay constantly evolves."" After securing the rights to the film, Lightmotive went to work finding the casting for the characters. Initially, Dustin Hoffman expressed interest in portraying Mario. However, Arakawa didn't believe that he was the right man for the role. Danny DeVito was offered both the role of Mario and the director's mantle. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Michael Keaton were both approached to play Koopa."
"Koopa (Hopper). ""Super Mario Bros."" was shot in both New York City and North Carolina on a budget of $48 million. It was released on May 28, 1993 and was a critical and commercial failure. Reviewers praised the film's innovative special effects, creative artistic direction, and the performances of its actors, but criticized the confusing narrative and inconsistent tone, and the film has gained a cult following in recent years. About 65 million years ago, a meteorite crashes into the Earth, killing the dinosaurs and splitting the universe into two parallel dimensions. The surviving dinosaurs cross into this new dimension"
"Standard Award for his performance. Hoskins was slated to be the last-minute replacement in case Robert De Niro refused the role of Al Capone in ""The Untouchables"" (1987). When De Niro accepted the part, the director Brian De Palma mailed Hoskins a cheque for £20,000 with a """"Thank You"""" note. Hoskins was moved to call the director and ask if there were any more films he wasn't needed for. He told ""The Guardian"" in 2007 that he regretted starring as Mario in ""Super Mario Bros."" (1993), saying that he was extremely unhappy with the film, greatly angered by his experiences"
"expansion would have hit an iceberg and died in early 1985... the attention garnered by the Rock & Wrestling Connection, stemming from that chance meeting on an airplane between Lauper and Albano less than two years earlier, led NBC to make the decision to air pro wrestling several times per year in the ""Saturday Night Live"" time slot."" Albano appeared in the 1986 film ""Wise Guys"", starring Danny DeVito. He played the role of Mario, Nintendo's mascot, in both the live-action and animated segments of ""The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!"", a TV series based on the ""Super Mario Bros."""
"remake of the 1949 film of the same name, starring Meg Ryan and Dennis Quaid. The film received critical acclaim in the ""Washington Post"" and from film writers such as Roger Ebert who described it as ""a witty and literate thriller"". Following ""D.O.A."", Jankel and Morton directed the film, ""Super Mario Bros."", a film based on the video game of the same name starring Bob Hoskins, John Leguizamo and Dennis Hopper. The film was set in a dark post-apocalyptic interpretation of the Mushroom Kingdom, as distinct from the colourful cartoonish setting of the game. It was panned by critics, receiving"
"Bueller's Day Off"" (1986), man at newspaper stand in ""Desperately Seeking Susan"" (1985), Richie in ""Howard the Duck"" (1986), Eddie in Jim Jarmusch's cult film ""Stranger Than Paradise"" (1984), real-life gambler Billy Maharg in ""Eight Men Out"", and the title character in ""Joey Breaker"" (1993). He also appeared in ""Platoon"" (1986), ""Good Morning, Vietnam"" (1987), ""Dirty Dancing"" (1987), ""Tougher Than Leather"" (1988) ""Let It Ride"" (1989), and ""Do the Right Thing"" (1989). He starred in the 1993 movie ""Super Mario Bros"" as Spike, King Koopa's cousin. Edson played the lead role in three films directed by Raphael Nadjari: ""The Shade"""
"in Japan around the same time as the film's release. A series of three OVA episodes titled """", based on ""Momotarō"", ""Issun-bōshi"" and ""Snow White"", were released on August 3, 1989. These generally featured Mario as the hero, Peach as the damsel and Bowser as the villain, with other Mario characters playing supporting roles. ""Super Mario Bros."" is an American 1993 adventure family comedy loosely based on the video game of the same name. The film follows the exploits of Mario (Bob Hoskins) and Luigi (John Leguizamo) in a dystopia ruled by King Koopa (Dennis Hopper). It was the first"
"made with Shigeru Miyamoto and Chris Meledandri co-producing. According to Miyamoto, he knew that the process of making a film was far different from that of making a video game, and wanted a film expert to lead the effort. In Nintendo's work with Universal Parks & Resorts to create Mario-based attractions, Miyamoto had met Meledandri, and they had several discussions. Miyamoto found Meledandri's creative process similar to his own, and decided he would be the proper lead for a Mario film. They had started more earnest discussions of the film as early as 2016, knowing that if they realized it"
"followed by an Emmy-nominated lead performance in ""Paris Trout"" (1991). Hopper found greater fame for portraying the villains of the films ""Super Mario Bros."" (1993), ""Speed"" (1994) and ""Waterworld"" (1995). Hopper's later work included a leading role in the short-lived television series ""Crash"" (2008–2009), inspired by the film of the same name. He appeared in three films released posthumously: ""Alpha and Omega"" (2010), ""The Last Film Festival"" (2016) and the long-delayed ""The Other Side of the Wind"" (2018), which had been filmed in the early 1970s. Hopper was born on May 17, 1936, in Dodge City, Kansas, the son of"
"Tom Hanks was considered for Luigi, but a string of recent box-office failures dropped him from the running. Actors Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo were ultimately cast as Mario and Luigi. Initially Hoskins didn't like the script and didn't want to do another children's film: ""I'd done ""Roger Rabbit"". I'd done ""Hook"". I didn't want to become like Dick Van Dyke."" Hoskins wondered how he would prepare for the role, saying ""I'm the right shape. I've got a mustache. I worked as a plumber's apprentice for about three weeks and set the plumber's boots on fire with a blowtorch."" Producer"
"by Peter Cullen) appeared in Donkey Kong segments where he and Pauline would try to recapture Donkey Kong. Mario stars in ""The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!"", played by ""Captain"" Lou Albano. Mario stars in ""The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3"" and ""Super Mario World"", voiced by Walker Boone. Mario appears in the live-action film ""Super Mario Bros."" as played by Bob Hoskins. Mario finds himself in an alternate universe in which dinosaurs rule where he must save the Earth from invasion. The film was a commercial failure at the box office. Outside the original games, television shows, and"
"film and in ""Mario Kart Wii"" they are seen in statue dancing together. She was his caddy in ""NES Open Tournament Golf"" as Peach was to Mario. Also on Daisy's trophy in ""Super Smash Bros. Melee"", it says that she is possibly Luigi's answer to Mario's Peach. Nintendo did not initially give Luigi a surname. The first notable use of ""Luigi Mario"" was in the 1993 live-action film adaptation. In September 2015, at the Super Mario Bros. 30th Anniversary festival, Miyamoto stated that Mario's full name was Mario Mario. Consequently, this indirectly confirms Luigi's full name as Luigi Mario. Luigi's"
"original 1985 ""Super Mario Bros."", save for an increase in difficulty. As in the original, Mario (or Luigi) ventures to rescue the Princess from Bowser. The player jumps between platforms, avoids enemy and inanimate obstacles, finds hidden secrets (such as warp zones and vertical vines), and collects power-ups like the mushroom (which makes Mario grow), the Fire Flower (which lets Mario throw fireballs), and the Invincibility Star. Unlike the original, there is no two-player mode but at the title screen, the player chooses between the twin plumber characters. Their abilities are differentiated for the first time: Luigi, designed for skilled"
"Tony Rosato Antonio ""Tony"" Rosato (December 26, 1954 – January 10, 2017) was an Italian-Canadian actor, voice actor and comedian who appeared in television and films. He was best known as a cast member on both ""SCTV"" and ""Saturday Night Live"", and for voicing Luigi in ""The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3"" and ""Super Mario World"". Rosato was born in Naples, Italy, and came to Canada at age 4. He was raised in Halifax, Ottawa, and Toronto. He graduated from Oakwood Collegiate Institute. He planned to study chiropractic medicine, but dropped out of the University of Toronto after he"
"handed a conditional discharge, including a psychiatric hospital residence order, issued for a maximum of three years, of which he ended up serving 19 months. Rosato was released from the hospital in March 2009 but remained on probation until September 2010. Tony Rosato Antonio ""Tony"" Rosato (December 26, 1954 – January 10, 2017) was an Italian-Canadian actor, voice actor and comedian who appeared in television and films. He was best known as a cast member on both ""SCTV"" and ""Saturday Night Live"", and for voicing Luigi in ""The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3"" and ""Super Mario World"". Rosato was"
"a blue shirt with red overalls to a red shirt with blue overalls. Miyamoto attributed this process to the different development teams and artists for each game as well as advances in technology. Nintendo did not initially reveal Mario's full name. In a 1989 interview, his full name was stated not to be ""Mario Mario"" though it may be inferred from the title of the ""Mario Bros."" series. The first notable use of ""Mario Mario"" is in the 1993 live-action film adaptation. This was again used in two of Prima's official strategy guides, in 2000 for ""Mario Party 2"" and"
"Super Mario The ""Super Mario"" games follow Mario's adventures, typically in the fictional Mushroom Kingdom with Mario as the player character. He is often joined by his brother, Luigi, and occasionally by other members of the ""Mario"" cast. As in platform video games, the player runs and jumps across platforms and atop enemies in themed levels. The games have simple plots, typically with Mario rescuing the kidnapped Princess Peach from the primary antagonist, Bowser. The first title in the series, ""Super Mario Bros."", released for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in 1985, established gameplay concepts and elements prevalent in nearly"
"Vickers as Mario, Larry Small, Jessica Grigg, Wendy Brown, Beata Safari, Sankofa Sarah Wade, Jim Gaylord, Eric Jordan, Isai Jess Muñoz, Leandra Ramm, Richard Cassell, Jason Cammorata and Nathan Resika. There is also a 1994 film with Klaus Maria Brandauer as Cipolla and Julian Sands as the patriarch, directed by Brandauer. Mario and the Magician Mario and the Magician () is a novella written by German author Thomas Mann in 1929. ""Mario and the Magician"" is one of Mann's most political stories. Mann openly criticizes fascism, a choice which later became one of the grounds for his exile to Switzerland"
"eventually embraced by the developers, who decided that it would serve the game in a positive manner. Although voice acting was used in earlier 2D ""Mario"" remakes, ""New Super Mario Bros."" is the first original 2D ""Mario"" game to use voice acting. Charles Martinet returned to voice Mario and Luigi, along with Nicole Mills as Princess Peach, Scott Burns as Bowser, and Dolores Rogers as Bowser Jr. ""New Super Mario Bros."" features original music composed by Asuka Ohta and Hajime Wakai, under the direction of the original ""Super Mario Bros."" composer, Koji Kondo, who also created the ""Aboveground BGM"", the"
"James Gandolfini James Joseph Gandolfini Jr. (September 18, 1961 – June 19, 2013) was an American actor best known for his role as Tony Soprano, the Italian-American crime boss in HBO's television series ""The Sopranos"". He was widely hailed for his performance, winning three Emmy Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and one Golden Globe Award. His notable film roles include mob henchman Virgil in ""True Romance"" (1993), Lt. Bobby Dougherty in ""Crimson Tide"" (1995), and Mayor of New York in ""The Taking of Pelham 123"" (2009). Other roles are enforcer and stuntman Bear in ""Get Shorty"" (1995) and impulsive"