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Producers update statement to hide by-name mention of the hotly anticipated sequel for Nintendo\u2019s hero, but the name they let slip makes a lot of sense<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n The Super Mario Bros. Movie<\/strong> was an instant hit when it arrived in theaters in 2023, and it\u2019s safe to say the filmmakers expected ahead of time that they had a major success on their hands. The CG animated film starring Nintendo\u2019s iconic plumber and his pals (and his foes\u2026and his foes that become his pals), ends with a scene that blatantly sets up a sequel, and while a similar ploy didn\u2019t pan out for the 1993 live-action Super Mario Bros.<\/em> movie, the CG Super Mario Bros. Movie<\/em> is indeed getting a follow-up.<\/p>\n Next to nothing has been revealed about the sequel yet, aside from its premiere date, April 3, 2026. But it looks like NBCUniversal may have accidentally let a big secret slip, as the parent company of Universal Pictures, producer and distributor for the movie, briefly listed a title for the The Super Mario Bros. Movie<\/em> sequel, the title is one Super Mario<\/em> fans have heard before: Super Mario World<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Within a press release originally posted to the NBCUniversal website on Wednesday is a section headed \u201cBlockbuster Hits Including Wicked: For Good, Jurassic World, and Five Nights at Freddy\u2019s 2 \u2013 Streaming Exclusively on Peacock Following Theatrical Release,\u201d and under that:<\/p>\n \u201cAn exciting range of films from Universal Pictures, Focus Features, DreamWorks Animation and Illumination were presented, including Megan 2.0, Nobody 2, Bad Guys 2, How to Train Your Dragon, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, Black Phone 2, HIM, The Phoenician Scheme, Super Mario World, Shrek, and Minions.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Super Mario World was the title of the fourth game in the Super Mario<\/em> franchise<\/strong>, and the first for Nintendo\u2019s 16-bit Super Famicom\/Super NES console, originally released in 1990. But while there are two games between the original Super Mario Bros.<\/em> and Super Mario World<\/em>, it would make a lot of sense for the movie sequel to skip the second and third games\u2019 titles.<\/strong><\/p>\n Calling the new movie Super Mario Bros. 2<\/em> could be confusing because there are actually two completely different games titled Super Mario Bros. 2<\/em>. The Japanese version of the game is essentially an extra-difficult expansion of the original Super Mario Bros.<\/em>, with almost all of its graphics being reused assets from the first game. Meanwhile, the game called Super Mario Bros. 2<\/em> in North America was originally a Nintendo-published game from outside the Super Mario<\/em> franchise with Mario, Luigi, Toad, and Princess Peach plastered over its original cast of playable characters, but with separate settings and enemies from the rest of the franchise.<\/p>\n So calling the sequel movie Super Mario Bros. 2<\/em> could have gamers outside Japan expecting characters and situations that aren\u2019t actually going to be part of the new movie. Of course, calling the second CG Super Mario<\/em> movie Super Mario Bros. 3<\/em> would be even more confusing, which brings us to Super Mario World<\/em>, a nice, non-numbered name that\u2019s still recognizable to Nintendo fans and also communicates to the average moviegoer that this would be an adventure on an even grander scale than the first Super Mario Bros. Movie<\/em>. Then there\u2019s the fact that the sequel hook at the end of The Super Mario Bros. Movie<\/em> is a quick scene showing a Yoshi egg<\/strong> about to hatch.<\/p>\n Mario\u2019s dino steed made his series debut in the Super Mario World<\/em> game, in which the plot involves rescuing other kidnapped Yoshi eggs. Considering that Yoshi was the most noticeable omission from the cast of the first CG movie, it seems a given that the filmmakers would be looking to get him involved as soon as possible in the sequel, and using the Super Mario World<\/em> game as the sequel\u2019s basis would be the most natural way to do that.<\/p>\n However, it looks like the Super Mario World<\/em> title may not be set in stone just yet for the sequel<\/strong>. Following the initial posting of the press release, NBCUniversal updated the page and it now makes no mention of the Super Mario Bros. Movie<\/em> sequel, with the revised section now reading:<\/p>\n \u201cAn exciting range of films from Universal Pictures, Focus Features, DreamWorks Animation and Illumination were presented, including Megan 2.0, Nobody 2, Bad Guys 2, How to Train Your Dragon, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, Black Phone 2, HIM, and The Phoenician Scheme.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Also scrubbed from the updated page are mentions of Shrek<\/em> and Minions<\/em>, neither of which had any sort of sequel-identifying title supplement in the original release. Whether the three movies got bundled together for sweeping away because none of them has an absolutely finalized title yet, or if the producers of The Super Mario Bros. Movie<\/em> sequel simply want to make a formal announcement of the title in a more dramatic way than slipping it into a list behind The Phoenician Scheme<\/em> is something we\u2019re going to have to wait a little longer to find out, but if Super Mario World<\/em> does end up being the movie\u2019s title, it\u2019s easy to see why.<\/p>\n Source: NBC Universal<\/a> via Denfamico Gamer<\/a> via Hachima Kiko<\/a>, Wayback Machine<\/a> via Anime News Network\/Joanna Cayanan<\/a><\/em> Producers update statement to hide by-name mention of the hotly anticipated sequel for Nintendo\u2019s hero, but the name they let slip makes a lot of sense. 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