guys you need to stop with the Chris Pratt Mario jokes before the whole MCU cast logs on and sings a song on Instagram denouncing people bullying him or whatever

Edit: Okay, I get it, I see your point. Charlie Day can stay too. And maybe Seth Rogan. The entire time I thought Seth Rogan was Seth MacFarlane. Forgive me.

calling it now, the mario movie will be:

an origin story showing marios early years

he will not have a moustache at the beginning of the movie

mario and luigi are hassled at their construction job by foreman spike. they find an entrance to the mushroom kingdom and nobody believes them

at some point mario will yell at luigi and then apologize but it'll be too late. there'll be like 5 minutes of the movie where they both convince themselves they don't need each other but find out that family is the best friend you'll ever have or something

charles martinets cameo will be as god. mario will black out at his lowest point and be taught a lesson by an otherworldly omnipotent figure voiced by charles martinet.

toad will be the awkward guy that tries to fit in with everyone else he'll be like "haha yeah that's cool guys let's do that! totally yknow haha". that'll be his joke

bowser gets a musical number

The thing that bothers me most about Chris Pratt as Mario in the 2022 animated film is that if you’re going to do a celebrity stunt casting for the voice of Mario, how is it not 100% fucking obvious that the only rational choice is Danny DeVito?

...I'm seeing a lot of people saying that only Voice Actors should do Voice Acting and that is absolutely missing the point entirely.

Like aside from the fact that Voice Acting is acting, it's not about putting on voices, it's about performance; that sort of typecasting does nothing to help voice actors. Most voice actors do also take on live-action roles too.

Voice acting has unique challenges that a lot of film actors underestimate, but the same is true of the differences between stage acting and film acting. The challenges can be overcome, and many actors easily switch between the different styles.

The problem with the casting we're seeing with Mario is twofold.

The first is that the original/current voice actors have been pushed put the roles they've spent years in, that they're iconic in, in favour of new actors in this high-profile adaptation. And while the games will go back to Charles Martinet and Jennifer Hale (yes, Commander Shepard is Princess Peach), this takes the opportunity away from them of playing their characters on a much bigger stage.

The second is more general to theatrical animation: it's stunt casting, plain and simple. They're not casting who's best for the role, they're casting actors specifically to make headlines and draw attention.

Now, you can do stunt casting well, I don't think anyone begrudges Robin Williams for Aladdin, but the problem is when you have your entire cast be stunt casting, the end product can end up lesser for it and it pushes out smaller-name actors and voice actors who could have done the role just as well.

how executives think people react to celebrity voices in animated films

News I’ve heard in the last 24 hours

Grimes and Elon broke up “semi-separated”

China made cryptocurrency illegal, tanking value of bitcoin

Russel T. Davies, queer legend, is returning as Doctor Who showrunner in 2022

People hired by Trump to “prove” he won the election reported that Biden actually won harder than everyone originally thought

Chris Pratt is Mario, Seth Rogen is DK, etc.

Anyone else got somethin to share? Destiel go canon again maybe?

Nintendo Announces Further Mario Cast!

FIJMU News 9-24-21

Hot off their Nintendo Direct announcements of the main cast of the upcoming Super Mario Bros. movie, Illumination and Nintendo have announced further cast for the film. These include:

Danny DeVito as "Dry Bones"

Simon Cowell as "Little Goomba"

George Clooney as "ShyGuy"

Elton John as "Lakitu" and James Earl Jones as "Cloud"

Lea DeLaria as "Big Boo"

Samuel L. Jackson as "Kirby"

Illumination has explained that Jackson as Kirby will have a post credits scene similar to his appearance in Iron Man, in which he invites Mario and Luigi to the "Super Smash Initiative."

Jumping on the meme train of the new Super Mario movie 😂

maybe if we catch all the 2013 tumblr fandoms renaissances we will unlock a secret power and defeat homophobic chris pratt super mario

the timeline was getting too dark with chris pratt mario so the universe gave us russell t davies back for doctor who i love it

the internet loving jack black & charlie day and going apeshit with hate for chris pratt is so so very funny

how are people saying today is anything close to nov 5th? Nothing and i mean nothing will ever give me the absolute rush of adrenaline that destiel becoming canon in the most homophobic way possible combined with rumours of putin stepping down and us election results ever will, yall are weak

Oh cool. Chris Pratt is gonna do a funny voice for mario. Awesome. Excellent. WHY NOT CHOOSE THE GUY WHOS BEEN DOING IT FOR 25 YEARS THEN

Me reading the Mario movie cast list