The Last of Us Showrunner Wants Nick Offerman to Voice Wario in the Super Mario Bros. Movie Sequel

A sequel to The Super Mario Bros. Movie is much than a twelvemonth away, but there's already a sanction being floated for Wario: The Last of Us Season 1 prima and Ron Swanson himself, Nick Offerman.

Speaking to IGN connected the reddish carpet up of The Last of Us Season 2 premeire, showrunner Craig Mazin floated Offerman's sanction arsenic a imaginable Mario antagonist.

HBO's The Last of Us showrunner Craig Mazin thinks Wario is misunderstood – and that Nick Offerman should dependable Wario successful the adjacent Mario movie pic.twitter.com/Idui04BOtB

"Nick Offerman would really bash a truly bully occupation I think," Mazin said. "Just to bring immoderate gravitas. Because I emotion Wario and I deliberation he's misunderstood."

Mazin antecedently said that Wario was his favourite quality successful Mario Kart. "I privation radical to recognize Wario is the mode helium is for reasons," Mazin continued. "He's Wario! He's-a gonna win!"

Offerman is possibly champion known for his seven-season tally arsenic Ron Swanson connected the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation. He won an Emmy for his impermanent relation playing Bill successful the archetypal play of The Last of Us.

A sequel to The Super Mario Bros. Movie is acceptable to beryllium released adjacent year. In October, Toad dependable histrion Keegan-Michael Key teased that the follow-up movie volition diagnostic immoderate Nintendo characters that are “really heavy cuts.”

The record-breaking The Super Mario Bros. Movie features a agelong database of Nintendo characters, but inactive immoderate were near connected the table. In an interrogation with Men's Journal, Key said the sequel volition see characters that weren’t successful the archetypal film, immoderate of which should delight the astir hardcore of Nintendo fans.

“I consciousness similar what they've done creatively is they've truly widened retired the beingness that these characters unrecorded successful and we're going to conscionable immoderate caller folks,” Key said.

“We're going to conscionable immoderate caller folks that are aged favorites and immoderate folks that I deliberation are truly heavy cuts, but due to the fact that of the mode the story's laying itself retired close now, those characters are going to beryllium precise intriguing.”

But who? Nintendo fans person speculated astir each sorts of characters who’d acceptable the "deep cut" bill, ranging from much well-known picks specified arsenic Bowser Jr and Rosalina to Tatanga and Toadette. For now, we don’t cognize who precisely to expect, but Key did accidental the 2nd movie is “a small broader successful scope, and wherever it takes spot is precise intriguing lore and the Mario world.”

Nintendo and Illumination announced the adjacent Super Mario Bros. Movie past twelvemonth with a merchandise day of April 3, 2026. While not overmuch was revealed, it was confirmed that The Super Mario Bros. Movie directors Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic volition return.

Nintendo fable Shigeru Miyamoto said astatine the time: "We'll fto you cognize the details erstwhile we're acceptable to stock more. This clip too, the unit astatine Illumination and Nintendo are moving together. We're reasoning astir broadening Mario's satellite further, and it'll person a agleam and amusive story. We anticipation you'll look guardant to it!"

Before the sequel was confirmed, Bowser dependable histrion Jack Black, who's acceptable to prima successful A Minecraft Movie arsenic Steve, said he’d similar to amusement disconnected much of his vocal chops successful immoderate travel up, arsenic helium had pitched the thought of a philharmonic titled Bowser's Revenge. "I deliberation it should beryllium a afloat musical, similar what Todd Phillips is supposedly doing with Joker 2," helium said.

Bowser's romanticist ode to Princess Peach successful The Super Mario Bros. Movie became an instant hit, landing a spot connected the Billboard Hot 100, but Black was initially hesitant astir singing successful the film. He told IGN that helium tries "not to bash excessively galore crossovers" wherever his characters sing, but helium couldn't walk up a emotion song.

The Last of Us Season 2, meanwhile, debuts April 13, 2025.

Michael Peyton is the Director of Events and Partnerships astatine IGN, wherever helium leads sum for tentpole events including San Diego Comic Con, gamescom, and IGN Fan Fest. He's spent implicit 15 years moving successful the amusement industry, and his reddish carpet adventures person taken him everyplace from the Oscars to Japan to Buenos Aires, Argentina. Follow him connected socials @MichaelPeyton