During a new Nintendo Direct on Monday, Nintendo and Illumination revealed the final trailer for The Super Mario Galaxy movie. While that new look at Mario and Luigi’s next adventure seems impressively larger in scope than 2023’s The Super Mario Bros. movieIt was a handful of casting revelations that stole the show.
That includes Donald Glover’s surprise reveal (atlanta, Community) like Yoshi the dinosaur. Yoshi has traditionally been voiced by Kazumi Totaka, the veteran musician and composer of dozens of Nintendo games. Glover is stepping into Yoshi’s strange shoes that are somehow attached to Yoshis at birth, giving him The Super Mario Galaxy movie additional star power. Illumination CEO Chris Meledandri says Glover is a “super Nintendo fan.”
Join Glover on The Super Mario Galaxy movie They are Luis Guzmán (Wednesday, boogie nights) as the recently revealed Wart, and Issa Rae (Insecure, Barbie) as Honey Queen, the “awesome ruler of the Honeyhive Galaxy”, as Meledandri describes her.
The latest trailer of The Super Mario Galaxy movie It also confirms the return of Lumalee, the beloved and nihilistic Luma who was a great success since The Super Mario Bros. movie. This time, Lumalee is showing her cruelty as a…prison guard?
In the follow-up of 2023 The Super Mario Bros. movieMario, Luigi and Princess Peach face a new threat in Bowser Jr and his father, who has now returned to his normal size. Our heroes are joined by newcomers Rosalina and Yoshi in a story that expands the Super Mario cinematic universe far beyond Brooklyn and the Mushroom Kingdom. According to Meledandri, there will be more characters from the Super Mario universe that have not yet been revealed, “some big surprises and some very small ones.”
The Super Mario Bros. movie Actors Chris Pratt (Mario), Anya Taylor-Joy (Peach), Charlie Day (Luigi), Jack Black (Bowser), Keegan-Michael Key (Toad) and Kevin Michael Richardson (Kamek) reprise their respective roles in The Super Mario Galaxy movie. New to the franchise are Brie Larson as Rosalina and Benny Safdie as Bowser Jr.
The Super Mario Galaxy movie opens in theaters April 1. To help you out, here’s Donald Glover’s excellent headshot for the reveal of his role as Yoshi.
Soruce: polygon.com