The Princess Peach

"It's worth saying that this is not the first cinematic adaptation of Mario. There was one in 1993, a live-action film starring John Lake Wasamu as Luigi and Bob Hoskins as Mario." "I think Nintendo wanted to play it extremely safe in the aftermath of that," he says. "The universe is like as rich as Marvel ... It manages to build characters who are distinctive"

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