John Leguizamo, who played Luigi in the 1993 live-action "Super Mario Bros." film, criticized the upcoming animated film's casting.

"For them to go backwards and not cast another [actor of color] kind of sucks," Leguizamo, who starred in the 1993 live-action version, of the upcoming animated movie.

John Leguizamo is saying mamma mia to the new “Super Mario Bros.” casting.

  • KnilAdlez [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    I hope the Mario bros movie bombs so they don't try to make a Legend of Zelda movie

      • OgdenTO [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Running around yelling hyah, spinning in circles and rolling into walls.

        • corgiwithalaptop [any, love/loves]
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          2 years ago

          Don't forget the 45 minute stop in the plot for Link to trade items to upgrade his sword, that really just padded the run time.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Zelda is ideal for a movie franchise because it can reset its hero origin story over and over again and keep rehashing rebooted Hyrules just like Spider-Man did but with less pushback from most of its fans. :so-true:

        • UlyssesT [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Me explaining why I appreciate the story continuity in CDi Zelda games even if the games are terrible :morshupls:

          • SaniFlush [any, any]
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            2 years ago

            The structure of Faces of Evil and Wand of Gamelon resemble an old text adventure, ever notice?

      • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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        2 years ago

        Link/Zelda as a generic fantasy cliche story framework is entirely incidental to the games themselves. What makes them good (or, occasionally, bad) games is ultimately the gameplay and not the plot.

        A Hollywood studio trying to adapt one of these things to a screenplay would absolutely piss off everyone and produce an enormous flop.

    • DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      The worst part is you could make a fantastic story around the backstory of OoT leading into the events of the game with the five kingdoms warring over the Triforce and the Gerudo getting fucked over leading to a young Ganondorf consolidating power through his whole coveting-the-wind speech in Wind Waker, but I trust exactly no one in entertainment to not fuck that up and have a shitty Marvel movie in its place.