What if Martin Scorsese directed a Super Mario Bros. movie? - CNET

Hollywood owes us a Super Mario Bros. movie. Actually, let me be more specific. Hollywood owes us a good Super Mario Bros. movie.

Yes, a major movie studio produced a Super Mario Bros. movie back in 1993 starring the late Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo as two Brooklyn plumbers who dress like Mario and Luigi. However, the film had almost nothing to do with the world game designer Shigeru Miyamoto created for the original Nintendo Entertainment System. This mediocre attempt to capitalize on one of the greatest video game franchises of all time is bued onto my brain like a brand from a cattle rancher.

The next time Hollywood attempts to make a Super Mario Bros. movie, it should at least try to hedge its bets and hire a director with some serious credentials, like the legendary Martin Scorsese. Fox's "Animation Domination High-Def" cartoon series imagined how Scorsese would helm a big-budget movie about gaming's most famous plumber brothers.

The video, posted Monday, is almost a mirror parody of Scorsese's gangster classic "Goodfellas," starring Yoshi in the role of Henry Hill, who hangs around with a powerful crew of mobsters including a hot-tempered Mario, an older but more loyal Luigi and "the boss" in the form of Princess Peach.

The "heroes" in this Mario Bros. universe spend a lot of time gathering coins and 1ups by any means necessary. That includes committing felonies by roughing up enemies in ways that involve a lot more than just jumping on their heads. When you think about it, jumping on someone's head is already pretty violent. All this time, we've been playing the 8-bit equivalent of a "Saw" movie.