How much money could Nintendo make on a Mario movie?

[super_etecoon]

Blob said:

super_etecoon said:

Blob said:
Eh Mario doesnt really have the personality to carry a movie to be honest.

I don't want a Mario movie...but this can't be further from the truth.  He has so much history as an epic warrior, as a savior of his people, as a brother, as a boyfriend.  He's done to battle with some of the most iconic villains in videogame history.  His personality really would be dependent on a writer getting in there and establishing tone and plot.  

Again...I don't want these things...but it could easily be done...whether tongue in cheek or more serious.  I'm talking about a CGI cartoon here, of course.

Well to me its like Link, we all have our thoughts on what there personality would be and to us that is what it is. Giving these characters set personalitys that would be required to carry a movie would kind of hurt them in my mind.

Link actually is a really bad example...based upon the way Nintendo handles that story.  That is, it is constantly changing the character known as Link.  Therefore, Link's personality would change from game to game...if they actually gave him a voice.

I do agree that I wouldn't like them to give Mario a concrete personality...but he kind of does have one.  He says mamma mia a lot...he's completely flabbergasted at almost everything that happens around him...and then he resolves himself to rise to the challenge.  You actually have the framework for quite a dynamic character right there, and one taht would lend itself very well to slapstick and and "out of the frying pan, into the fire" plot format...all the while with him saying things like" Oh no...mammamia, etc."

But yeah...I don't want it to be made.  I think it would be terrible.  You'd have to hand it to a very good writer, like that guy that did Toy Story 3 and Little Miss Sunshine.