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Mario is returning<\/span> to the big screen. Following the massive success of The Super Mario Bros. Movie<\/em>, which made more than $1.3 billion worldwide in 2023, animation studio Illumination and Nintendo are releasing a sequel, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie<\/em>, in April 2026. Nintendo dropped a teaser trailer during its Direct presentation on Friday.<\/p>\n The teaser doesn\u2019t offer much about the movie, which takes its name from the 2007 platformer. Mario dozes in a field before title credits appear, that\u2019s about it. But the trailer still signifies that Nintendo will continue to churn out films aimed at turning Mario into a megafranchise.<\/p>\n It\u2019s no coincidence that the trailer and accompanying announcement come just one day before the 40th anniversary of the original Super Mario Bros.<\/em> video game. In the four decades since that game\u2019s release, Mario\u2014and Luigi, Princess Peach, Bowser, and other assorted characters\u2014have become cultural icons.<\/p>\n In 1993, Super Mario Bros.<\/em> became one of the earliest videogame film adaptations. It was panned by critics and fans, but in the years since, games ranging from Mortal Kombat<\/em> to Tomb Raider<\/em> have been turned into movies. Now, as superhero fatigue sets in and \u201990s nostalgia peaks, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie<\/em>, which will include nods to the entire Mario series, stands poised to continue Mario\u2019s domination.<\/p>\n Considered the most successful video game adaptation ever made, The Super Mario Bros. Movie<\/em> was the second highest-grossing movie of 2023, second only to Barbie<\/em>. The original cast, including Chris Pratt as Mario, Anya Taylor-Joy as Peach, Charlie Day as Luigi, and Jack Black as Bowser, will return for the sequel.<\/p>\n Alongside the news, Nintendo also announced it will release remastered versions of Super Mario Galaxy<\/em> and its sequel on October 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mario is returning to the big screen. Following the massive success of The Super Mario Bros. Movie, which made more than $1.3 billion worldwide in 2023, animation studio Illumination and Nintendo are releasing a sequel, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, in April 2026. Nintendo dropped a teaser trailer during its Direct presentation on Friday. The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[2573,1879,12800,283,5727,3687,4885,5844],"class_list":{"0":"post-20844","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-drops","9":"tag-galaxy","10":"tag-mario","11":"tag-movie","12":"tag-nintendo","13":"tag-super","14":"tag-surprise","15":"tag-trailer"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}