The Super Mario Bros. Movie is here, it’s great, and it’s poised to dominate the box office and spawn a new movie franchise–or maybe even a full-blown cinematic universe with some of Nintendo’s many other intellectual properties.
It’s an enticing prospect, and hardly impossible to imagine when mega-franchises like Marvel and Star Wars continue to dominate pop culture. And so we couldn’t help but ask Mario, Luigi, and Donkey Kong themselves–that’s Chris Pratt, Charlie Day, and Seth Rogen–about the possibility of moving past the borders of the Mario galaxy and meeting some other Nintendo folks.
All three had the same first answer: Metroid.