Nintendo movie licensing may be back on the cards, Miyamoto suggests

While most video game entertainment companies have ventured into the film industry, Nintendo has classically stayed outside of that realm ever since their 1993 bomb of a movie, ‘Super Mario Bros‘.

Japanese producer Shigeru Miyamoto, general producer of the video game Pimkin 3 for Wii U, kicks off Nintendo’s showcase of the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2013 at the Los Angeles Convention Center on June 11, 2013 in Los Angeles, California. But because games are an interactive medium and movies are passive, the two are actually quite different.

Miyamoto says that Nintendo is looking to how it could make movies in the future. With it’s thematically dark dystopian setting and only passing resemblance to the gaming franchise, it was such a flop as to scare Nintendo off of considering any other movie options since.

There’s now no official word on which characters, if any, could be making the leap from console to screen, or when any such projects might begin development. But the times, they are a’changing, and it looks like Nintendo may be easing back into Hollywood once more. Performing poorly, and receiving an overwhelmingly negative critical reaction, the film put Nintendo in the position of ardently opposing any future foray into the realm of cinema, possibly until now. People have been clamoring for a live-action Legend of Zelda adaptation for years and properties like Metroid are ripe for some sort of film adventure. You can bet that Zelda or Mario will be top contenders for big screen adaptations.

In related news, Nintendo has been very cordial when lending their characters to movies like Bowser in Wreck it Ralph and Donkey Kong in the upcoming Adam Sandler film Pixel, but the legendary Mario has been off limits since 1993.

Everyone should be familiar with the game-producing company Nintendo because of the undeniable popularity of “Donkey Kong” and “Pacman” during arcade days, as well as the 90s hit games “Mario Brothers” and “Pokemon“. There’s a good reason for that, and it mainly involves the fact that we wouldn’t want to see Nintendo’s beloved characters dragged through the dirt.