Who would have thought that a Nintendo film starring Super Mario was a huge success could become? Well, probably most Nintendo fans, to be honest. The Super Mario Bros. movie has been in theaters for just under a month and has already grossed over $1 billion. He’s already one of them 50 most successful movies – of all time! It’s only natural that fans are now more Nintendo series on the big screen wish. A popular Nintendo brand even has a blockbuster director with plenty of experience.
Will this Nintendo series be made into a movie?
While the Super Mario Bros. film attracts not only big Nintendo and Mario fans but above all a child and family audience, the Film adaptation of another old and popular Nintendo series become the complete opposite.
We’re talking about Nintendos dark science fiction series Metroid starring space bounty hunter Samus Aran. Nintendo recently had great success with the new version of Metroid Prime for the switch.
Blockbuster director wants to film Nintendo classics
Since the Metroid series consists of not inconsiderable parts anyway iconic science fiction classics like the Alien movies, a film adaptation of the Nintendo brand would be particularly obvious.
And a suitable director would also be in the starting blocks: Neill Blomkamp. The South African screenwriter, producer and director was already able to do this with science fiction blockbusters such as Disctrict 9 and Chappie gather plenty of SciFi experience.
On Twitter, when asked if he would be interested in making a Metroid film based on the success of the Mario film, he responded with a short and clear answer: yes.
Nintendo is planning more movies
Although Nintendo has no film adaptation of the Metroid series has been officially announced at this time, however, Mario inventor Shigeru Miyamoto has already revealed that there will be more Nintendo films. Looking at the gigantic success of Super Mario. Bros Films is not surprising. Will a Metroid film that may be released at some point also be published illegally on Twitter – like the Mario film is currently doing?
