Super Mario Bros. Movie, starring Chris Pratt as the gumba-pounding plumber, jumps closer and closer to its 2023 release date with each passing day. And now, from the Nintendo Direct presentation, we have the first trailer for the film, which most importantly reveals Pratt’s voice for the character.
Earlier this year, Pratt assured fans that his vocal direction would not offend Italian Americans, but rather “updated and unlike anything you’ve heard in Mario World.” The decision has been made on both.
The trailer begins with an extended scene featuring Jack Black’s Bowser invading the Penguin Empire. Then we get Pratt’s big debut: a scene in which Mario arrives at the Mushroom Kingdom for the first time. His first words sound… just like Chris Pratt. But after meeting Todd, Pratt slips into a voice that those of us have decided to sound… kinda like Boston? No one’s expecting the original to sound—or even Jared Leto is doing house of gucci The point – it can be surprising to finalize the take. Sure, “hey we come!” Mario can say something.
Pratt serves as Mario for longtime video game voice actor Charles Martinet, who has provided the squat hero with his signature woo-hoo for three decades. Although she is rumored to be present (er, can be heard) Super Mario Bros. MovieHis comments show that he doesn’t have any hard feelings about Pratt taking over—he just wants to give a voice to the games. In a recent appearance at FanExpo 2021, Martinet said he plans to voice Mario in all future games, but also “will be the first to call my friends inside Nintendo and say, ‘ You know something, I just didn’t get it.’”
Along with Pratt’s Mario, the film stars Anya Taylor-Joy as Princess Peach, Seth Rogen as Donkey Kong, Jack Black as Bowser, Charlie Day as Luigi, and Keegan-Michael Key. Also shown as a toad. The film is written by Matthew Fogel (Minions: The Rise of Gru) and co-directed by Michael Jelenik (teen Titans Go!) and Aaron Horvath (teen Titans Go! for movies,
The new film was announced by Nintendo and Illumination in September 2021, and while most of the cast had fans excited, Pratt’s casting was almost immediately ridiculed. Pratt himself even released a video to let fans know how hard he was trying to get the voice right, but the joke didn’t stop. or his campaign to voice all known animation roles; Later Super Mario Bros. Movierelease, Pratt will next be heard as the voice of Garfield the Cat in a film set for 2024.
Super Mario Bros. MOvi was initially supposed to release sometime this year, but after a slight delay, the new release date is April 7, 2023.
