Speaker 1: All right, ladies and gentlemen, we are back getting right
into the main juicy content of this episode. We're starting
off with some Nintendo stuff. You've been enjoying your switch too.
I know it's not a side quest. I can't really
talk about video games stuff, but.
Speaker 2: It is you are legally alluded to. It's yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean, I've really just been ripping up Tomorrow Car,
a couple of smaller games that I've talked to you
about on the show. Looking forward to collecting those bananas
as I mentioned. But yeah, I'm enjoying my my switch.
I got a pro controller which I haven't used yet,
but been ripping up this new console, which is great.
Speaker 2: Did you have the pro controller for the first switch?
Speaker 3: I had, like a knockoff one I think, ok, I
don't think it was official Nintendo one, and it was fine.
It called the job done, but then it broke eventually,
So this is the time I have an official Nintendo One.
The buttons are super crisp, and I got that because
the joy cons. Once again I say this whole time,
but they give me a hand pain. So hopefully this
controller will be better, so not deal damaged me while
I'm playing.
Speaker 1: Just see minus one going down on your heads of
display as you're playing.
Speaker 2: Like Samporter Bridges and neg a blood bag plugged it.
Speaker 1: Oh dear, that's awesome. I love my my pro controller
for the switch one. I don't know how much they've
changed it for the switch too, I imagine a little bit.
But uh yeah, great, great, great to fight pro, play
like a pro. I don't play like a pro, but
I feel like a pro when I have that in
my hands. Uh yeah, bring up your Nintendo because apparently
Nintendo is confirmed more movies in the works. Movies what
could they be? Of course, we currently have Super Mario Bros.
Two and a not so secret Zelda movie in the works. Yeah,
I mean, what do you feel about this? We've obviously
you got a lot of history in Nintendo. I feel
like you're I mean, you already mentioned you're getting excited
to catch some bananas, get some get into the d key,
the d Key, the d Key Universe, the Donkey KWK.
What do you feel about this state by Nintendo? And
also is there certain titles that are frothen at the
top of your brain that you just want to see
on the big screen? And yeah, maybe I'll follow up
with would that be better as a live action or
an animated.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, you're throwing a lot at me here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sorry, you can break that up. I threw a lot.
Speaker 3: I am excited for d Key Kong. As you mentioned,
I this is great. I mean it's the leastur prizing thing,
right Mario comes out, billion dollar movie, huge fucking movie.
Of course they're gonna do more of it because you know,
they're making bank and they're gonna keep doing it. But
I think you know, to your last question, they're bringing
that to the front here. That's where, like anytime we
get news like this, it's like there's a big role
the dice, like are they gonna do live action with this?
Speaker 2: Are they gonna do animated? Again? Animated for me was success.
Speaker 3: I think you know, a lot of people have problems
with that movie, but I don't think anyone has an
issue with like the animation quality looks fantastic, and the
music and all that is great. Remains to be seeing
what's going on with Zelda because we obviously know what's happening.
We know it's live action. I know someone fell like
the director and stuff, but we don't. I don't think
we have casting for link or anything yet, right or
anything like that. So it's it's very much a question
mark right now.
Speaker 2: And the quality.
Speaker 3: Obviously is like the biggest question of it, because I
think anyone who doesn't even like Mario the Mario movie
is still gonna be like, yeah, it was fine, though,
Like I don't think anyone's like, oh, this is the.
Speaker 2: Worst trash I've ever seen in my life.
Speaker 3: Yeah, of course, Like when you take a game series
like Mario, which has virtually no narrative, it's like, well, yeah,
you're gonna have to kind of fill in the blanks
here of what a narrative looks like to make a
movie three act structure, so it's a little bit different there.
So yeah, because of the success of Mario, and obviously
they confirm the second one they're doing Zelda, so it's
not really surprising me that even more is coming. Of course,
that's really all they gave us is like one little statement,
but there's a lot that we can kind of nibble
on with that. But I would I guess I don't
know how much they're gonna green light in the live
action realm until they see how Zelda does, would be
my thought, And I think for the time being, they
might just stick with more animated stuff, or like I
think even in the end, let's say we're years from
now and we have, you know, ten Nintendo movies, I
still think we'd probably skew, like eighty percent of those
are probably gonna be animated. I feel like that's the
route they're gonna go. That just makes a lot of
sense for almost all of their characters, like Zelda is
one of the few that makes sense to do. But
even then, you're gonna have to like CGI everywhere. It's
gonna be like the Minecraft movie, where it's like, yeah,
you have a couple of live action people walking around,
but then they're just in a fake environment completely. So
I'm hoping for more animated stuff until they prove me wrong,
which I.
Speaker 2: Don't think they will.
Speaker 3: I think that movie's gonna be weird not having an
animated seeing a live action Lincoln, Zelda and Gannendorf and
all these characters. But yeah, I'm very excited for this.
There's obviously so much potential. I could talk about this
tograph for twenty seven hours, but I think for me
what makes sense is like the most logical things are
gonna be more Mario type things, whether it's like Ya
get a Luigi's I don't know if they do Luie's Mansion.
Speaker 2: I don't know if there's a full movie there.
Speaker 3: I think that might be like a twenty minute sequence,
and we already got like a little haunted sequence in
the first Mario movie. But I think something like that.
I think Donkey Kong is probably the most likely. And
obviously they have Donkey Kong. I think I forget what
they call it the theme park. Is it Donkey Kong World,
Like obviously they should call it country, but I think
they called it world, right, I can't remember.
Speaker 1: I mean, I should be buying my tickets here at
the end of the month. That makes it, yeah, universal Japan.
I think it's just called d K A country, DK country.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's either.
Speaker 3: Land or world like I think they did. They didn't
go for the layup of country. I'm pretty sure they
went for fools because it's called Mario World, right, and
then they called it.
Speaker 1: It's like Nintendo World, is okay?
Speaker 3: I think you're right there, yeah yeah, so so yeah,
I think you know don Kong there. They're obviously bringing
back don Kong in a big triple a way. With
the with the like the Mario Odyssey team making this
new Donkey Kong game.
Speaker 2: We know that now.
Speaker 3: They obviously did like the redesign of him that's now
and Mario Karton will be in this, so I feel
like they're all in on Donkey Kong in my opinion.
Obviously that character in realm is like a big part
of that first Mario movie. So I think that's the
next one that makes the most sense. If you had to,
if I had to make a bet I had a
gun to my head, Kirkland, I think it would be
Donkey Kong animated movie would be like that third in line,
I guess fourth after the second Mario movie.
Speaker 2: And the Zelda one. But yeah, what do you think?
Speaker 3: What do you think is like top of the stack
most likely thing if it's Donkey Kong or otherwise.
Speaker 1: Uh, it is actually called Donkey Kong Country, so they
did actually, yeah, so good on them Donkey Kong Country
area because it's here it says to enter Donkey Kong Country.
Speaker 2: It's like trademark right for getting it right, getting it right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then it's just like Super Nintendo World is
within Universal Studios, which hopefully I'll just be talking about
after my trip and a crazy world event happens fingers crossed.
It's never happened before, right, No, I definitely haven't had
to cancel a Japan trip because of a global pandemic
before I did and it was awful.
Speaker 2: So here we go.
Speaker 1: In terms of next runner up, I think you are
nailing it right on the head with the d the
d Y universe, the DK country. It's sort of me
to say now animated film, I feel like it's just
we got a little glimpse of it and there's so
much substance there that we can really jump into a
whole world and it's like adjacent enough to Mario that
like you can even have a little bit of cross
over there. So it just seems like super super safe
of a project to use. The other one that came
to mind would be something like, and I know she's
gonna be a part of Super Mario two obviously, is
Princess Peach, And I just feel like she was such
a especially with Anya like pairing, like just such a
focal point, maybe just for me, but I'm assuming other
people in that Mario movie just just how Peach was done.
She's just like a badass now, and I feel like
we could just naturally have like a Peach focused adventure,
like we're following her. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, And I feel
like there's just so many well because of Peach show time.
You know, she's doing many different things, whether it's fencing,
detective work, like she's just she's a jack of Ultra
and she can easily lead her own storyline, and again,
you can have crossovers amongst the whole universe there. That's
why I just feel like a Mario adjacent it's not
even really adjacent, it's like a part of the Mario
family story would be the next runner up. I just
feel like that's the safest personally. You know, I'm a
wild boy. I want to get like a whole Metroid
adventure in there, and it doesn't necessarily have to be
like super mature. I feel like it could be like
a very good PG adventure kind of how we had
like the Buzz light Year, not the movie remake, but
just like that level of action where it's like it's
very family friendly, but like they're still blasting and shooting
in there, and I feel like that could be really
fun again. Animated, I think animated is the safest play
for at least the first time go around of these, Yeah,
just Nintendo titles, and especially that we're just like, I mean,
Disney is still doing a lot of anime stuff, but
we're really getting a lot of Disney live action stuff
that maybe people aren't absolutely loving in. So maybe yeah,
Nintendo is able to pump out some really good animated stuff.
They'll be uh just just winning the battle and the
animated projects there. Who knows, but that would be my
heart pick. But I think my brain pick is definitely
just kind of a Mario family member.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I think Metroid is a bit too
much of a risk in terms of how popular is it,
Like even when the games sell, well, it's like, you know,
just marginal of what how much these other Nintendo hYP
are making. But I wonder if we could look at
like that first Mario movie as a bit of a
blueprint of the things they want to do. Is obviously
we talked about Donkey Kong there, that seems quite likely,
and they had that whole sequence in that movie with
Donkey Kong, But like what other things, like do you
think they would do a full on Mario Kart movie?
Speaker 2: Like is that is that?
Speaker 3: Is that too specific, and obviously once again we had
that sequence in the movie, But could you make a
whole movie around that where it's like an F one
type movie where there's the young up and comer toe,
there's the hard Brad Pitt Mario, you.
Speaker 2: Know, and they're kind of learning and climbing up the ranks.
Speaker 3: You can throw a little double dash sequence in there,
Like is that is that?
Speaker 2: Is that too specific?
Speaker 3: Because that's obviously another best selling franchise current like in
the current times of the Switch, but also just Lifetime
for Nintendo.
Speaker 1: I feel like that is too specific, especially that we
had like a little sequence already in the first film.
I feel like like the Super Mario Galaxy would be
like a more like solo project type thing that I
could see or like the yeah, yeah, absolutely, Like it
doesn't just feel like a like if you're in the
Super Mario Galaxy, you're in the Galaxy. You're not just
karting for part of it. I feel like it's focused
around that, So that feels like a more of a yeah,
just just a better setting for a full movie versus
that might be a long movie, you know, if we're
just the whole thing is the karting but who knows.
I also like recent movies. Obviously, I just came off
off of one recently, So yeah, I would be down
for that, but it just seems unlikely to me that
we would, I think, go there right away. And even
like Smash Bros. Like, I feel like that's kind of similar.
How just just a Smash tournament focused movie like that
just may be too much of a specific there, But
who knows, Maybe we're just getting like that Nintendo version
of Mortal Kombat movies.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, honestly, I that was gonna be my next pitch.
Is I actually think that that is a pretty likely
one because if you think there's a lot of little
freaks in there, like your Samis, like your Fox, like
your Kirby, that are great recognizable, iconic characters. But it's
like seems like one a big risk to like green
light a movie like if you if we think of
like a Mario animated budget, you know, if we think
about a budget like that for one of those franchises,
seems like.
Speaker 2: A pretty big risk. Uh.
Speaker 3: And like also what kind of like I think Metroid
would make for a great story and there's a lot
of potential there, but like Kirby, I don't know if
you're telling like a great narrative in a in a
Kirby movie. Not that that's what the Mario movie is
doing necessarily, but I think it'd be harder to characterize
and get along get away with some of that stuff.
So I feel like just skipping straight to a Smash movie,
like it's not like, you know, we can look at
it like, oh, are they gonna follow the marvel like
DC formula, Let's have four to five to six projects
that lead into that Smash Bros.
Speaker 2: Crossover?
Speaker 3: Like I just don't think we're doing that, considering that
we have Zelda Live Action like, so, I don't think
they are planning, you know, oh we're gonna cross these
worlds over at some point, Like I think they would
would just smash and they would just have you know,
animated link and not be concerned with that what that
other movie was.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I feel like that is pretty likely.
Speaker 3: And that way you could get other franchises like they
really want to, you know, market the heck out of
Splatoon right now, Animal Crossing once again, big series, But like,
do they have the the the juice in them for
like a solo project.
Speaker 2: I don't think so necessarily, and.
Speaker 3: I think you could you could gauge, like what is
the popularity of some of those things if you could see,
I don't online traffic like maybe Metroid. You know, we
put Samos in there, and people love Samus, people want
a Sam's movie. Uh, maybe then you could go to
the Samu's movie after Smash Bros. And who knows what
the story setup is, whether it is like like a
Mortal Komic tournament you like you mentioned, or if it
is something like from the games. But I also think
Smash like one with with Ultimate in particular, and the
way they were showing off all those characters, right with
those beautiful like CG trailers which are really fun. I
had like little tiny narratives in them that were super good.
But even going back to like the subspace emissary from Brawl, right, like,
there's already been a lot of I feel like you
could just take some of those scenes and just slap
them in a movie and people would love that stuff.
Like those scenes are amazing. They've always done a really
good job with those, and I feel like if you
just build more of a structure around and make it
a full movie, I think there's a lot of potential there,
and that would be a good way to get a
lot of those smaller characters like an Alamar as well.
Pickman could be a really fun world. But are you
doing a Pickman movie? I don't think so. So I
think Smash is a good way to go, and I'd
say it's up there in likelihood for me. I'd say
that's like after Donkey Kong, maybe the next most likely
movie we would get.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, you're You're making a lot of good
points and definitely convincing me of the potential there. I
feel like I totally forgot about just how much I
was gonna say subtle, but it's not even subtle because
it is like the opening of the games and there
is like story elements to it, but just the world
building and lord that they throw into to Smash, because
it's definitely not the first thing I think of when
I think about those games. It's just throwing you know,
all these Nintendo characters in a ring and having them
brawl out, no pun intended. But yeah, I I there's
definitely a lot of potential there because even just playing
like Melee and fighting like like what's it called magic hand,
that thing magician Hand, Master Hand, Master Hand, thank you,
Like even just that, like I don't know what's going
on with a master Hand, Like I don't remember the
story or anything, but just that's that's that's the enemy there,
and you could have a story around what the mention
of that is around.
Speaker 3: I think the story of Masterhand essentially is like in
that because in the first Mass Masch sixty four, the
opening cut scene is like a kid's bedroom and there's
a bunch there's little like what are now ambo pretty
much there's a bunch of nebo on the table, and
then like the kid, you know, is imagining like as
we did as kids playing with action figures playing on
the table, and like an imagining a battle between Link
and Mario and Pikachu. And that's where like Masterhand is
literally just like the child's hand and like as a
boss against the you know, it's all in this kid's imagination.
That's like kind of where it started, and I don't know,
maybe it's ventured past that, but I feel like that
is the core concept of master and you could do
something like that'd be getting pretty meta.
Speaker 1: It's like a toy story.
Speaker 3: But they could go that route toy story, you know,
it has a million movies and it is very popular,
and the Boss Troops and all that, and it's animated
as well, so I feel like there's a there's some
potential there as well. But and then I think, you know,
maybe once again, looking at the Mario movie, what other
thing's going to do. Like obviously there's a Yoshi's hinted
at the end of the Marrio movie, so he's presumably
yosh will be a character in the next one. They
could go, Yoshi wrote, once again, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you do a full movie or a.
Speaker 3: Narrative there, but that could at least be like some
spinoff idea. Obviously there's hints of like a Galaxy rosilliena.
But once then that could be seqel. What do you
think about this? Though we've never had a Bowser game.
Obviously Bowser has been playable and like Smash and Kart
and sports games and stuff, But do you think they
would do that? Like Jack Black pretty popular, people like
that character from the movie, Like.
Speaker 2: Would they make a hero of the story. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe I could definitely see it, especially just how popular
the Jack Black pairing was with just the song Peaches
and kind of just the goofy nature of how they
wrote that character, Like they don't just make them like
a straight up evil character where it's like this is
this is like souron, where like you can't really root
for this guy. He's evil, We have to kill him.
Like like there's a lot of I feel like layers
to the character because of like he's just such a
whimp and like he's just simping for Peach and you
just you just want that's just what he wants, you know,
he just wants a lover and he's lonely, and they're
just that side of Bowser. I could see that it's
just maybe another one that I feel like it's a
little bit further down the line. But I don't know,
maybe I'm wrong with that thinking, because I mean, we're
coming off of the just the hype of that character
with the recent movie, and if we spend a lot
of time maybe focusing other movies, are we you know,
we're not gonna be striking it while it's hot and
per se with the bows character. But I think that
would be a lot of fun, And like you said,
how we haven't had a Bowser game before, Like this
would be the chance to kind of tell a Bowser story,
and I'd be down. I don't know. I like the
character enough, I'm a little bit worried it might get
too too much, just because, like I don't know, I
thought the humor around Bowser was okay, but he wasn't
really maybe my favorite potential for what the character could
have been in that movie, but yeah, I don't know.
I think it's at least a unique option that's not
just super safe and basic, so I would be open
to it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: And then my last kind of thought here was like, well,
obviously Pokemon's huge, but Pokemon is a weird one where
it's like kind of Nintendo but not really Nintendo. And
obviously there's been a million Pokemon movies over the years.
But that's where going back to the Smash Bros. Thing,
I think that's that would just really easy spot to
drop in a few Pokemon in there, so you can
get that crossover one that would be like huge for
marketing kind of thing. But like, I don't really know
if we're getting like the Nintendo Studio Pokemon animated movie.
Like obviously there's a detective picture that exists, there's these
other things, so maybe you could just cross over with those.
I don't know how the rights work for all that stuff.
It gets confusing with Pokemon company versus what's Nintendo. But
I think that's where the Smash Bros. Movie makes more
sense as well, because you can just put in the
big marketable characters in there, and Pokemon would be a
big one to get people to go to the theater.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I would.
Speaker 3: And obviously i'm biased hereious it's my favorite video game
series of all time to Smash Bros.
Speaker 2: So I will.
Speaker 3: I do want to see that, But yeah, I do
think there's a lot of potential there, and it's it
just seems like easy, and like don't don't do all
the work, don't make ten movies leading.
Speaker 2: Up to it, just fucking do it. Let's just get
it right into it.
Speaker 1: It would sell so well. Like yeah, like it's it's
a franchise that even non video gamers like no Smash Bros.
And I feel like you can draw to that, especially
just how you like the collab of all the characters.
I feel like there's there might not be a Pickmin fan,
but you know, if there's if there's a hundred characters
in that certain project, I'm sure there is a Pickman
fan that with that might get intro intrigued and pulled
in if if they're super fond of that franchise.
Speaker 3: So they could even like do crossovers Sonic. You know,
Sonics big deal right now, to get to get Sonic
in there as well. They got to carry in there,
get them carrying there. Sky's the limit. Final mm hmm.
Speaker 2: Anything else on this, ah No, I think I think
that's all.
Speaker 1: I think that's all all right.