Keep it up Luke

Awesome video! I think the "video game movies are bad" curse ended with Wreck It Ralph. While Wreck it Ralph wasn't necessarily based on a video game, it showed filmmakers how to genuinely respect video games as a source material, while being very successful.

My fan made post credit scene: Meanwhile, at Koopa’s castle, the camera moves slowly towards the lava Koopa fell into. After a few seconds, Koopa’s hand slowly emerges from the lava. The screen cuts to black.

I think that the producers should have just continued the director search, rather than just settling with Morton and Jenkel. There’s a saying “If 12 people tell you’re drunk, lie down”. Well if, the entire cast, minus two directors with barely any credits to their name, thought that script was great, then there’s a problem here.

Signing those 2 as the directors and writers was so wrong. Bob Hoskins said they were a nightmare to deal with and most of the crew agreed. Great video Luke, I’m looking forward to the future of this channel!

So happy for you Luke! Looking forward to the videos coming up on the channel! 😀

oh wow, You can see the love and effort gone into research and production 🙂 Great job Luke, I'm still learning stuff about this movie! A winner is you!

Ruddy brilliant in-deph look into a HUGE "what if?" in movie history. Also, it's brilliantly produced and tickd along at an engaging pace. Can't wait for the next three videos and hopefully more in the future.

This was fantastic, Luke! I know you're looking for critique since this is the first episode, so one thing I might add in future episodes is a second voiceover for reading out creator quotes, as one voice talking at that speed for 26 minutes did get a little boring, and if I'm being honest, I finished the video in two sittings because of it (and would have regardless of who did the voiceover). I know Rosie worked on the production, her voiceover would lend great contrast to your own.

It's a great start to the new channel, Luke. Smart, funny people talking about things they love - my favourite thing in the world. Love the design and the music choices and the classic Rosie Easter Eggs. I am looking forward to seeing what comes next...

I've seen this movie a lot growing up, and although I acknowledge the inaccuracy of the adaptation, it's still so weirdly fun. Rest in peace, Bob Hoskins.

That is a fascinating look at the movie we had in 1993. I had no idea of the Fantasy script till now. After having just watched it along with friends for the podcast "How Did This Get Made?" in celebration of the new Mario movie, your research is a great companion piece after wallowing on the mediocrity of sub-par art with friends. Awesome work Luke!

Love the detail that's gone into this and can tell so much effort has gone into making this as well. Looking forward to the next one, Luke! 👍

You nailed it Luke. Great video. Wonderful job by the production and editing team on the video. Can't wait for your next one.

Never bothered looking into Mom and Dad Save the World before, but honestly that little mushroom scene, I could see something like that working. It might have been cheesy, but it would have worked with respect to the games at the time. One thing I cannot get over is Mario being so grouchy and them refusing to use the name "Peach" for the princess (it was always Peach in the Japanese version). But a surreal wizard of oz/Alice in Wonderland movie with two funny bumbling brothers and mushrooms everywhere would have been perfectly respectable. It is surreal that it started out that way and somehow devolved into what we got.

Congrats on getting the channel up and running Luke! You deserve all the love and support in the world! Looking forward to everything you do!

What a great first video! Great job by everyone involved. Looking forward to the next one.

never been a huge fan of films but man do i love listening to Luke and now i’m finding myself very intrigued with a movie i never heard about. Love the channel mate, looking forward to more!

Movie commentaries are my favorite thing on KZfaq and I have loved all the commentary you’ve done for both NRB and WT, so I’m loving this!

Amazing video Luke! Such a well investigated and researched topic that is topped off by your passion for it all. Can't wait for more!

Holy production values, Batman! Great start Luke, your passion is contagious.

Great video! Super in depth and well researched, and good editing as well. Can't wait for more

Looking forward to watching this! Edit: Just got done watching, such a fascinating video. Great production too. Good job Luke and the team!

Great video Luke! Can't wait to see the next roll outs and where this channel goes. Jam that jam!

It's actually quite relaxing, just listening to Luke go off about something he likes: good for you man

Congrats on the new channel Luke, hope it’s a success

Great work Luke and whomever else worked on this great project can’t wait for more

Excellent work Luke. While wrestling is a love of yours I can tell your PASSION is movies and video games. The way your tone in production of these videos is way brighter than any wrestling video I've seen you do, and that is INCLUDING the brilliant stories we've had lately

Have a strong feeling I'm going to love this channel! Great stuff Luke!

You've hit two from two here Luke, very excited to see what else is to come!

The quality is incredible and so much more than I was expecting

So happy already with this channel! Keep it up fam!

When Hollywood say "In the spirit of", what they really mean is, hardly anything like the source material at all.

Kudos on this great start to the channel, Luke! Can't wait for the Street Fighter episode!

The thing about that first draft: even in that version, they got the Princess wrong. The Princess is supposed to be, you know, a princess. Not the girl next door who turned out to be a princess all along but never knew it. She is supposed to be an important figure in her country's ruling class, and a universally desired beauty. This is why the videogame can have the stakes it has without really going into detail about the princess. She's a princess: that's all the stakes you need for that basic setup. She is important. She is desired. And if an ordinary plumber, a blue-collar man with a very dirty job, can rescue this princess, that will make him a great man. Now, other than that misstep, which could and should have been corrected in a later draft, this script at least WAS Mario Bros. Not necessarily what I would have done; I would have had all the characters be from the Mushroom Kingdom in the first place, rather than anyone being transported there from our world. But still, this script legitimately was a version of the games. And that aspect is refreshing. There are some very good things in it, too, like the way Koopa hated his father "Because he was weak." Or the way Mario beats Koopa by outsmarting him. This was a solid draft that should have been polished into a finished draft. And as soon as the second pair of guys came on and gave their pitch, that strangled to death the spirit of the video games, they should have been kicked right out. I've got my own Mario Bros. movie kicking around inside my head. It's a movie that starts with the first video game and works backwards, so that if the video game had been inspired by the movie, that movie would have been something like this. It's a shame you didn't make more of this movie's climax. It was cleverly done. I like how they set it up by having Luigi tell the story of the genie and the fisherman to a group of kids. I like the way that Mario tricks Koopa into thinking that he knows what Mario is up to. Again, clever. Koopa thinks Mario is challenging him to get bigger and bigger so that the bridge won't support Koopa's weight anymore. So Koopa just flies up into the air, which the crown allows him to do. But then it turns out Mario was actually getting Koopa to make himself bigger and bigger so that the crown wouldn't fit on his head anymore. And when Koopa flies up into the air, the crown falls off, and Koopa loses all his powers and falls into the lava. I like that part a lot. By the way, i wrote a song about screenwriter Barry Morrow. "The sun'll come out Barry Morrow. Bet your bottom dollar Barry Morrow there'll be sun. Barry Morrow! Barry Morrow! I love you, Barry Morrow! You wrote Rain Man... yes you did!"

Reminds me of mark kermode on film, which is a very high compliment from me. Keep up the great work

It strikes me as odd how many times Hollywood made such similar mistakes adapting brightly-colored, kid-friendly properties to film around that same mid-'80s to mid-'90s timeframe. The Super Mario Bros movie was a weird, self-serious, dark-blue attempt that kept certain superficial elements of the source material while completely jettisoning everything that made it fun or popular in the first place, and moved the action from a colorful fantasy world to a depressing and poorly-lit urban setting -- just like the Masters of the Universe movie, which is often cited as killing that product line altogether. I can't think of a similar "let's make it edgy, but not too edgy, also can we film it at night in an unconverted warehouse no more than a half-hour's drive from my house" live-action adaptation from around that time that *did* end up working. At some point you'd think producers would have picked up on that.

This was a neat video, I never actually knew a lot of this, thanks for making this video!!!

Incredibly in depth and thorough. Looking forward to the next!

Amazing job Luke! I had no idea this story goes so deep. I never knew about these other drafts! Very cool, but also kind of disheartening to learn about lol! Congrats on this channel dude! I look forward to street fighter!

Great video luke. Very akin to the gaming historian. Can't wait to see what else you have planned.

Really well done! A Topic with lots of material and so many participants in the troubled history of "SMBTM" (1993). Love the Clever Chapter Titles (Ch.2 'Stay Tuned') and this is a welcome video companion to the "Best Movies Never Made" Podcast. Looking forward to the nest episode. especially if we are talking "Street Fighter" (1994). "Quick, change the channel!"

Just learned about the new channel, and man, how cool it is to hear Luke talking about something outside wrestling, not that I don't like Luke talking about wrestling, but I think it's interesting to meet other interests of the KZfaqrs I watch

Look at this guy. Two wrestling news channels, one of which is a podcast, a few series on PFK, cinestars and now this. Luke you are who I hope to be when I grow up, keep up the hustle.

I read this part in Luke's book, it is very interesting the direction the Movie goes and ideas for it 😀

This video was crazy good. Put it on at night just as something to half watch as I fall asleep and ended up fully engrossed. 0/10 for sleepytime video. 10/10 for engaging and interesting presentation

Oh neat! I get more Luke Owen on my dad-to-day! Keep up the amazing work, D.A.D!

Love you Luke, hopefully this channel takes off man

So glad to hear you doing video essays. I miss Actually Good

This is great. Thank you Luke good luck with this!!!

So excited for the possibilities of this channel!

This was truly fantastic. You got a new subscriber!

Loving the content, keep up the great work luke.

3:57 has to be a call back to Luke singing the OC theme song every time The OC were referenced during his Raw reviews, and I cannot be convinced otherwise.

Top work Luke, Laurie and Rosie. Keep up the work

I have and enjoyed Luke's book "Game Over" that talked about this and a bunch of the other failed video game movies. Great stuff from one of the great and funny Wrestletalk gang. Love it, Luke, you're all awesome.

Looking forward to more from you luke. Keep up the great work

Nice work, Luke! Greeting from Malaysia's WrestleTalk Fan.👍

Great video mate. Keep ‘em coming.

A Luke Owen channel… I don’t think I’ve hit subscribe faster in my life! 😍😍🔥🔥

Amazing video, Luke! It's just hard to hear "Super MEHrio Bros" so many times :)

Let's go, Luke! Looking forward to more stuff from you! 🎉🎉

great video. you have a very distinct recognisable voice, I feel I've heard it from somewhere before...

Love the concept of this channel! Can't wait to see the next one! The SF movie IS bad for many reasons but admittedly, it's got some stand out moments. Zangief shouting, "QUICK! Change the channel!" while the baddies watch their location destroyed on live TV always makes me laugh but now I can't wait to hear what went wrong or what could have been

This was fascinating! Way to go Luke!

Hey these are great videos! Keep it up!

This is great and interesting to watch ! Congrats Luke 😄

Subbed, enjoyed, quality content Luke 🎉

The Super Mario Bros 1993 movie is the Greatest Royal Rumble of video game movies. It's bad and it should never have existed. The Super Mario Brothers Super Show, on the other hand, was stellar.

Luke, this was great! I hope in the upcoming Street Fighter video you'll talk about the anime version as well.

Great work as always Luke

Great video Luke! And I need to know where you got the No Man's Sky poster, it looks great

So this is the video version of your book. Looking forward to the next episodes. 🙂

Crazy how the secret to making a good video game movie is to respect the video game you're adapting.

Now, this is a CutScene I won't be skipping!

Amazing job, Luke!!!

Excellent video can't wait for more

I rarely comment on any wrestletalk, PFK and NRB videos. However, I really wanted to give this some extra love. Brilliant video, hope the channel becomes a massive success and thank you for being my source of entertainment for years at this point!

Super Mario Bros: The fellowship of the ring 💍

I really like this! And I hope to see more in the future

I smell a series looking at movies that never got made ❤❤

Im totally here for Luke to talk about any film!

Great video1 looking forward to more

How does a video this good and well made have such a small view and like count?!?!

Can you imagine the lunacy of unironically saying, "This Mario movie is too juvenile."

Great job, Luke!

“90’s dark fantasy Mario doesn’t exist” *90’s dark fantasy Mario*

Timing is perfect now. The new mainstream that grew up playing the games, plus their kids.

Very very good, Luke!

I came for Mario Bros. I stayed for Luke Owen.

Good job as always Luke, his video work is perfection always has and always will, I myself love playing Super Mario games, on of my favorites was Yoshi’s Island for the Super Nintendo, as for the movie I wish Luigi didn’t have to be kidnapped but the movie trailer did look good.

Love you Luke thank you for doing this

Just saw Super Mario Bros last night. It was fantastic, best animated movie I’ve seen in quite a while. Lovingly, they still called back that the Mario Bros are still from Brooklyn, there’s still interdimensional pipes, but the music was sublime, the voice work actually was outstanding. Chris Pratt actually did a great job

Being honest, from birth in 1988, playing NES Mario up until Mario64 late nights with my dad, with this difficulty, I always guessed that the difficulty of a game had to concise and or equal that of Mario or Donkey Kong.

You know. The 90s Super Mario bros movie was bad in MANY ways, but i still absolutely love the movie. And i especially love it for just how incredibly disconnected it it was/is from the actual I.P. because of that, i "and MANY other people" are able to come up with incredibly off the wall ideas of what other franchises would look like if done in the same way. Just look at all the A.I "80s Dark Fantasy" videos. This movie while a flop, and a nightmare to make, was such a blessing in MANY other ways! And not a ton of people see or think about it like that. Sadly

Loved this video can’t wait for more

Perfect name for this channel

Amazing Work, looking forward to Street Fighter

04:55 this isn't entirely surprising. The words of Koji Kondo illustrate this the best. While helping the new Mario composer, Mahito Yokota, during Super Mario Galaxy's development, upon hearing Yokota's preliminary compositions, roughly told him, "If somewhere in your mind, Mario is cute, get rid of it. Mario is cool." That's always how Nintendo has seen Mario, so wanting the movie to have an edge to it actually falls in line with how they have always portrayed him. This channel is amazing so far Luke, please keep this going! I find it endlessly fascinating!

I'd love to get the Drain Man script to read, while Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel would've been better suited for making a Metroid, Battle Clash, or even and Advance Wars film if we're talking Nintendo game film adaptations