The Tremendous Mario Bros. Film was an enormous hit for Nintendo, raking in over $1 billion on the field workplace, so producing a follow-up film was a simple choice to make. In a brand new video, Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto and Illumination Leisure’s Chris Meledandri shared that the following film is in improvement, with a launch date set for April third, 2026.

Meledandri says Illumination Studios Paris, which labored on the primary movie, is storyboarding the film underneath the course, as soon as once more, of Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic. He added that animation is beginning quickly. And after the film’s April third launch within the US “and lots of different markets globally,” it’s going to come to “choose territories” all through the remainder of the month.

Miyamoto says that the film will “have a shiny and enjoyable story” that expands on the world established within the first film.

With the November announcement of a live-action Legend of Zelda movie, we now haven’t one, however two confirmed motion pictures in improvement primarily based on main Nintendo mental properties. There’s not a lot details about the corporate’s theatrical plans for Hyperlink. Wes Ball, director of the Maze Runner trilogy and the upcoming Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, will helm the film, with Avi Arad and Miyamoto producing.

Replace March tenth, 2024, 10:20AM ET: Added context in regards to the in-development Legend of Zelda movie.