Don't Hold Your Breath for a 'Super Smash Bros.' Movie

The first Super Mario Bros. Movie stayed largely in its own universe. However, with the release of its sequel, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, a few reveals have fans looking ahead at what the future might hold. Could the addition of characters like Fox McCloud tease a much larger team-up film in the future, sort of like the Super Smash Bros. games? Not so fast, says Nintendo legend, Super Mario Bros. creator and Super Mario Galaxy executive producer Shigeru Miyamoto. “Right off the bat, I’ll say that unlike something like Super Smash Bros., I don’t think you’ll have a situation [where] all Nintendo characters would be joining,” Miyamoto said in an interview with Polygon. His co-executive producer, Illumination CEO Chris Meledandri, expanded on that. “When you use the term universe, it conjures up for me this idea that there’s a group of really smart people in a room with charts up on a wall and they’re planning the next 10 years of how all the characters might be weaving in and out of movies,” he said. “Our process is actually very different from that. It’s much more geared toward conversations about what would be fun within a certain scene in the movie. So these ideas come up based