Unannounced Super Mario Bros. Movie Sequel Title 'Super Mario World' Published Then Pulled From NBCUniversal Press Release

We mightiness person the sanction of the The Super Mario Bros. Movie sequel up of clip aft an NBCUniversal property merchandise appeared to leap the gun.

As spotted crossed the internet, NBCUniversal published a property merchandise announcing its Upfront Showcase offerings, and successful it mentioned Super Mario World arsenic 1 of the upcoming films from Universal Pictures and Illumination that volition yet beryllium released connected its streaming service, Peacock.

It didn’t instrumentality agelong for Universal to alteration the wording of the property merchandise to region each notation of Mario entirely.

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It’s worthy noting that the archetypal paragraph successful the NBCUniversal property merchandise referred to “Super Mario World, Shrek, and Minions." We cognize Shrek and Minions are Shrek 5 and Minions 3, which possibly means NBCUniversal did not database the close last rubric of the Mario movie sequel either, alternatively a imaginable umbrella term. That is to say, the adjacent Shrek movie is not simply called Shrek, and the adjacent Minions movie is not simply called Minions.

However, Super Mario World is simply a much circumstantial rubric than a elemental Super Mario oregon Super Mario Bros., truthful it’s worthy speculating based connected it being correct. And indeed, Super Mario World arsenic the rubric of the adjacent Mario movie would marque a batch of sense.

Warning! Spoilers for The Super Mario Bors. Movie follow:

The Super Mario Bros. Movie post-credits country gave america a glimpse of a quality who’s astir surely going to play a large portion successful the adjacent movie. We instrumentality to the underground sewer strategy of the existent satellite and spot a speedy glimpse of a polka-dotted egg. That ovum is starting to hatch, and we cognize who’s inside: Mario’s faithful dinosaur companion Yoshi. The Super Mario Bros. Movie is teeing up Yoshi successful fundamentally the aforesaid mode the archetypal Sonic the Hedgehog teased the debut of Tails.

Fans of the Mario video games volition cognize 1990 SNES platformer masterpiece Super Mario World marked Yoshi’s video crippled debut. Perhaps ‘The Super Mario World Movie’ volition bash the aforesaid successful the movie adaptation franchise.

According to the lore successful Super Mario World (what small determination is), Bowser magically trapped the Yoshis successful eggs, leaving Mario to find and escaped them implicit the people of the game. The Yoshi we spot successful the post-credits country could beryllium portion of 1 of Bowser’s schemes. Maybe the Koopa King has a contingency program successful lawsuit he’s defeated?

The Super Mario Bros. Movie arrived successful 2023 and was a smash deed for Nintendo, pulling successful $1.36 cardinal worldwide. This rapidly led to the announcement of a 2nd film, but extracurricular an April 3, 2026 merchandise date, practically thing is known astir it.

In our 8/10 reappraisal of the archetypal film, IGN said: "The Super Mario Bros. Movie is simply a fireball of animated fantasy, overcoming a Paper Mario-thin crippled with undeniable charm and energy."

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