Exclusive: Nintendo and Illumination execs Shigeru Miyamoto and Chris Meledandri break down why Mario as a mascot rivals Disney's Mickey Mouse.
While both have their respective cultural histories, the team behind The Super Mario Bros. Movie are explaining why they think Mario rivals Mickey Mouse's popularity. The latest adaptation of the Nintendo platformer follows Chris Pratt's Mario as he teams up with Princess Peach to save his brother Luigi and the Mushroom Kingdom from Jack Black's Bowser. Unlike the 1993 film, The Super Mario Bros.
Shigeru Miyamoto: There was a time when Mario was compared with Mickey Mouse. And at the time, I thought that Mickey Mouse was 40 years older than Mario, so he had no chance. But Mickey Mouse has evolved through the evolution of animation and, in that same sense, we have the idea that Mario then is going to evolve through a digital medium. With every new technology and hardware that we put out, there's a Mario game created that was part of that evolutionary process.
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