The Sony Pictures pirate attack is like the gift that just keeps on giving. After losing five movies to pirates, it was revealed that studio had also lost private emails that detailed some of their future movies in the works. Spider-Man was the big one but that's not all that got out, it looks like the studio was also in the process of closing a deal for a new animated Mario movie.
Leaked Emails Reveal Talks Between Sony and Marvel for Spider-Man
According to Buzzfeed, some of the leaked emails reveal talks between Avi Arad, a producer, and Studio Chief Amy Pascal regarding a new Mario Bros movie indicating that he had managed to close the deal for an animated Mario feature.
Arad later came forward and denied that the deal was in fact done but did confirm that they were in talks with the Nintendo to make the idea a reality.
Say Goodbye to Some Amiibos, Nintendo is Discounting Certain Lines
Nintendo is famously hesitant on films since the hilara-bad 1993 live action Super Mario Bros film. The film stared Bob Hopskins as Mario and Dennis Hopper as King Koopa. It happened in a strange underground world where people were dinosaurs but somehow not? Everything was covered with fungus, that was also the true king. And Goombas were huge, with tiny heads. The whole thing was terrible and the ending had the nerve allude to a sequel.
Even so, Nintendo hasn't ruled out making movies completely, they're just gun shy. There's no news from Nintendo's end on whether or not this could break decade long lack of films for the company. Still, Sony seems pretty confident.
