Shigeru Miyamoto, the iconic Nintendo game producer responsible for Super Mario Bros. and Donkey Kong, is soon to debut his 3D short film based upon the Pikmin video game series.
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After the big screen disaster that was Super Mario Bros. in 1993, Nintendo made the decision to guard its valuable collection of characters from the movie-making world—a move that proved prescient given the string of bad game-related films that would follow for the next 15 years.
But as convergence has become the norm in the entertainment universe, the company has started to rethink that stance—and is now ready to once again entertain Hollywood’s advances.
I hope we get to see Alf make an appearance, and an Emperor Bulbax, and an orange, and a Mario hat, and ooh, I want this to be awesome! Call Pixar on the phone and make it!