It was revealed a while ago that head of Nintendo's creative design and king of your childhood Shigeru Miyamoto in an interview with Fortune has stated that Nintendo is considering to making movie deals again. What does this mean? It could very well mean that we could be seeing full feature movies based on your favorite Nintendo games and characters on the big screen again *cough*Legend of Zelda*cough*.
“As we look more broadly at what is Nintendo’s role as an entertainment company, we’re starting to think more and more about how movies can fit in with that—and we’ll potentially be looking at things like movies in the future,”
This is not really a big surprise. There have been rumors circulating about Nintendo expanding past video games and opening up to other form of entertainment. There was the rumor that was later confirmed to be untrue of a Legend of Zelda series being made for Netflix. There was also news of another possible Super Mario Bros. movie in the works with Sony, due to the recent Sony hack. This should be cause of a celebration, right?
Some people might not see it that way. Of course we haven't forgot Nintendo's first venture into Hollywood, the 90s live action Super Mario Bros. The Super Mario Bros. movie is herald as one of the ultimate bad video game movies ever, almost as bad as anything Uwe Boll can do. At the time of its release it was a box office bomb and met with terrible reviews. The cast weren't too thrilled with being attached to the movie as well. Actors John Leguizamo and Bob Hoskins have publicly talked badly about it and the directors. Dennis Hopper hasn't had kind words to say about it either considering it was his Mommie Dearest. Nintendo however has been a good sport about it, even going further to say on the official Mario website that Mario can do anything except make movies. But even with a blunder like Super Mario Bros., should Nintendo make movies again.
Surprisingly they have. A few years ago an animated full feature movie based upon the popular Animal Crossing movie was released in Japan. Recently there was an animated short movies based off of the Pikmin franchise. Even though there were movies being made, Nintendo has been very cautious of how these movies were distributed. The Pikmin movies were only exclusive on Nintendo's eShop and The Animal Crossing movie has only been shown in Japan.
Bottom line, Nintendo has been careful with how they've done things outside of games and it seems that they have learned their lesson since the Super Mario Bros. movie. Also, they know that despite how bad it was fans still want movie adaptations of their other franchises like Metroid and The Legend if Zelda. It's nothing wrong with learn in from your mistakes and trying again. That's what exactly what Nintendo has done and that's what they're going to do. There us still a bit they will have to learn and hopefully one of the things is that they learn to work with the right team of people. A movie is just as good as the people who made it. Now let's hope Square Enix comes around to making movies again.
What are your thoughts?
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