You may or may not have heard of Max Landis. Landis is an American screenwriter, producer, and director, who is known for co-writing the popular 2012 feature film, Chronicle.
While Chronicle or any of the other films Landis has previously worked on have no relation to Nintendo or any of the company’s intellectual properties, it seems that he is quite fond of their Super Mario franchise – since Landis has just released a 436-page Super Mario World movie script that he wrote when he was 18.
Read more details on Landis’ Super Mario movie script after the break.
Max Landis’ Super Mario World Movie Script
The following is a related tweet that Landis posted on his Twitter earlier today (10/20/2014):
https://twitter.com/Uptomyknees/status/524288572468129792
Furthermore, you can read an excerpt from Landis’ prologue to the Super Mario World script below:
“There is nothing to elevate this above fan-fiction. In fact, I’d say it’s actually far inferior to my other relatively available fan-fiction work, The Shocker: Legit, which I actually wrote BEFORE Super Mario but shows much defter characterization, dialogue and storytelling.”
“In all honesty, I would love to play this script as an Uncharted-style new, grounded Super Mario video game. I’d love to see art of certain scenes. But I can’t imagine, literally cannot imagine that any of you who so ambitiously venture into this script will actually be able to finish it. In fact, I question whether a lot of you even got through this prologue without wandering off to check Facebook, Twitter, your texts, or even have just abandoned it entirely.”
“Good. Good for you. This is an artifact. It might be cursed. Save yourself while there’s still time. Abandon all hope ye who enter here. My Super Mario World won’t ever really live up to its own grandiose ambitions. But then again, Super Mario World was never mine to begin with. What Mario is, I think, is an exploration. It is, at the most primal level, a writer exploring their own limits; I wrote it not because I felt I should, but rather, to see if I COULD.”
If you’re interested in reading Max Landis’ lengthy 436-page Super Mario World script, you can download it in its entirety in PDF format here.
What are your thoughts on Landis’ Super Mario script? Do you think there is hope for any more movies based on Nintendo’s Mario universe (especially after 1993’s Morton/Jankel-produced catastrophe)?
Let us know in the comments section below! As always, stay tuned to GamerHeadlines.com for the latest in video game and technology news.
Source: MaxLandisWrites.com – Additional concept artwork and details can be found here as well.
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