Super Mario Bros., the 1993 film, paved the way video game movies for all time to come. Namely, that everyone would expect them to be terrible. It opened 20 years ago on Tuesday, and John Leguizamo, who starred as Luigi, had the grace and good humor to record this message for a Super Mario Bros. film fansite
āIām glad people appreciate the movie,ā he says. āIt was the first, nobody had ever done it before.ā By that he means a cinematic video game adaptation and if heās not right, my memory canāt produce the example where he is wrong. āWe made a lot of great things and we made a lot of mistakes.ā
Nearly every actor on the project hated it, few more than Bob Hoskins, who starred as Mario, calling it his worst job, biggest disappointment, and the one thing in his past heād change. Leguizamo, in his biography, expressed dissatisfaction with his role and with the films direction.
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John Leguizamoās 20th Anniversary Message [Super Mario Bros.: The Movie Archive]
