The Nerd Thread (comics, movies, anime, cartoons, video games, lore, fun stuff, ect.)

The 40th anniversary of Airplane! is next year.
I have Leslie’s famous line as a window sticker on my truck.

There’s no chance of seeing movies like that anymore.

Thanks.

when rebecca ova?

So…

Things aren’t looking too good for the MCU Blade movie.

List of issues so far:

-The person directing the movie has stepped down from their role as director and the movie is now waiting for someone else to take over
-Script is apparently too short and is going over rewrites
-Despite being an action movie, there were supposedly only TWO action scenes, which according to insiders and crew members were both “lackluster”
-Kevin Fiege is too busy to try and help fix things
-The lead actor for Blade (Mahershala Ali) is reportedly not very happy with all of the above issues
-Movie’s release date is supposedly delayed
-Production of the movie has been pushed from November of this year to sometime in early 2023

@Vulcan
At the moment the other strongest characters in my team are 22 (Soul) and Agent P (Phineas & Ferb). I need to upgrade my weaker fighters soon.

First poster for the Super Mario movie

Trailer will be shown on Thursday during the next Nintendo Direct

@icicle wicicle 1517
Not bad.

@icicle wicicle 1517
I want this to unironically be the long awaited sequel to the 93 movie thirty years later.

@icicle wicicle 1517
Wait is that an actual real poster for the upcoming movie?
Cause if so that looks great, especially considering what we all expect from Illustrations.

@Dr_Osaka
It’s bright colorful and shiny.
Isn’t that basically standard for Illumination?
Quality of their storytelling aside they at least can make stuff look pretty.

@Darth Prime
Sorry what I meant was character design wise, of course it’s gonna be bright and colorful I just didn’t think they would be using the exact character and world designs from the video games.

@Dr_Osaka
Ah I see.
Well the Mushroom People look pretty good but the only one we see is Mario from behind.
But hey I’m sure it’s fine despite how some people are maybe not super hyped for this movie they are most cautiously optimistic the bar was set extremely low by the 90s one after all.

Possible Mario design leak

@northern haste
He….actually looks good? The mustache and mouth are a bit off-putting, but it’s a solid design nonetheless and he’s more or less the Mario we recognize (I like the collar on his shirt, too; makes him more working-class). I imagine they had to change it up a bit because they didn’t want merch licensors to be confused over which were game merch and movie merch, but still…pretty solid.

@northern haste
He seems to be a bit wider in the face, probably because he’ll be doing plenty of talking.

@Lord WyrmSpawN
I’m already seeing some idiots compare it to Ugly Sonic, which makes me close to having a migraine since the two aren’t comparable. At all.

@SleepySteve
I’ve even seen some people say it doesn’t look like Mario.
I mean it’s pretty much the game design but with more detail

@northern haste
I think after seeing the teaser poster people expected Mario to look exactly like he does in the game.

That was never in the cards, because otherwise it would just be an-hour-and-thirty-minute long cutscene. Should also be noted that Nintendo almost certainly oversaw and approved the design (and much more stringent than Sega was with Paramount regarding Sonic’s design), and judging by the lack of C&D requests on social media they and Universal seem to be happy with the response currently.

9 hours til the internet collapses.

@SleepySteve
From what?

@Lord WyrmSpawN
The Mario movie trailer

@icicle wicicle 1517
That probably won’t be so bad.

@Lord WyrmSpawN
It probably won’t but Mario has more global recognition than Mickey Mouse. Practically everyone will want to see it.

Tell me honestly, does our current revolution in Game-based cartoons and films all thanks to the Sonic movie?

The Sonic movie is 2 years old at this point so the timeline could match up.