Nintendo is going full steam ahead on making movies for their IP's, after the success of Super Mario Bros. in 2023. A sequel is due next year with a Legend Of Zelda movie due in 2027. And Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa hinting at more movies on the horizon.
Now news has leaked that a Donkey Kong movie is in the works. With three of Nintendo's biggest properties prime for movies. I decided to take a look at 5 other popular Nintendo characters/franchises that could warrant a movie.
F-Zero
F-Zero was a series of racing games, where the vehicles hovered instead of being on road tools. So throw in some cool well designed hover cars, and set the races across different planets like the game. There is a potential gold mine on the horizon.
Now racing movies can be very bland and feel unnecessary. So proper story and character development would have to be done. It could work though to revive the brand for a new generation.
Bowser aka King Koopa
The Donkey Kong movie will be a spin-off of Mario Bros. So it would only be right to continue the Mario Bros movie-verse, with a spin-off for Bowser. Hollywood loves a good origin story for villains, explaining how they got to be devious and diabolical. Let's see how Bowser became King Koopa.
Star Fox
I'll admit I don't remember hearing of StarFox until the game was released on Nintendo 64. Apparently the franchise dates back to Super Nintendo in 1993 with the last release in 2017. With a plot that's prime for a animated movie.
Following an anthropomorphic fox named Fox McCloud an fighter pilot in outer space. Alongside his team made up of different species they set out to save the Lylat galaxy and prevent a war.
Kirby
Kirby maybe considered the "cute" mascot of Nintendo characters. He's probably the companies second most known character behind the Mario Bros. Kirby can shape shift and express different emotions. Going from cuddly to fierce in a blink of a eye.
His ability to inhale enemies and objects creates opportunity to funny visuals. Perfect fodder for a movie that could cater to younger fans.
Metroid
Metroid walked so Halo could run. The first game was released in 1986 on Nintendo. It follows a galactic bounty hunter named Samus Aran battling a destructive species called Metroids. At the same time fending off other forces who want to use the Metroids abilities to make weapons.
With elements like Mario Bros and Zelda, Metroid is prime for an action adventure film. Let's get to it.
Music, we all love it and even if you have two left feet we all enjoy doing a little two step to music. Music is so powerful, that there are several fictional songs out there that are just as good if not dare I say better than several real songs. With that here are 10 fake songs that are a bop, get ready to add them to your playlist if you haven't already.
10. Pop! Goes My Heart
The 2007 romantic comedy Music & Lyrics stars Drew Barrymore and Hugh Grant, with Grant playing a former pop heartthrob who was on top of the world in the 80's. The film opens with a music video of the fictional song Pop! Goes My Heart complete with a astounding 80's look. Parodying groups like Wham!, everything about the music video and song scream 80's, the checkerboard background. The synth pop beat and the cheesy chorus that is catchy.
9. Sugar High
This little known fictional song is an original performed for the cult 90's classic Empire Records. The song is portrayed by cast members Coyote Shivers a real life musician who played Berko in the film, and Renee Zellwenger before her big break in Jerry Maguire the following year. It's performed during a fundraising scene to save the record store that's the subject of the film. It's a rock song that jams and is very catchy.
8. The Hardest Part Of Breaking Up
In 2000 amid the pop frenzy and boy band craze, MTV developed a original movie and later a television series about a fictional boy band 2Ge+her. Utilizing the tropes of boy bands from the heartthrob to the bad boy to fill out the band's roster. In support of the series, the band released an album that was actually very popular. With the lead song being The Hardest Part Of Breaking Up, which is essentially about getting your stuff back from your ex. It's a very silly song, that fits in with the time period and is very catchy.
7. Peaches
Last years Super Mario Bros. movie was a quality adaption of the classic video game franchise. A highlight of the film was Bowser's solo performance professing his love for the princess Peaches. Jack Black really gave his all into the song, and really made you feel he was in love. You hear this song and you are guaranteed to walk around and randomly sing "peaches, peaches, peaches".
6. Hard Out Here For A Pimp
2005's Hustle & Flow was Terrance Howard's breakout role after almost two decades in Hollywood. His raw portrayal as a Memphis pimp just trying to make it, resonated with audiences who are just trying to make it too. The signature song of the film Hard Out For A Pimp is just as raw and gritty, with everyone's pain felt in the song. The song was so popular and well received it won Best Original Song for the Academy Award's in 2006. The hard hitting beat also made it easy to crank that joint up in your car on a warm summer day.
5. Straight Outta Locash
Chris Rock's classic 1993 spoof on the hip hop gangsta culture CB4 is a hilarious and very real film. The premise being middle class suburban Black kids cosplaying as gangstas to launch successful rap careers. To kick off their rap career, CB4 releases Straight Outta Locash which itself is a spoof of legendary rap group N.W.A. song Straight Outta Compton. It is one of the best fictional hip hop songs ever created, one may even think it's a legit song if they aren't laughing from the lyrics.
4.That Thing You Do
1996's That Thing You Do! perfectly captured the era of 1960's culture and music. Following a band named The Wonders who are one-hit wonders. The group's song That Thing You Do! sweeps the nation in a matter of month's and the band goes on an exciting journey thanks to the song's success. Almost 30 years later, the fictious song is still a head bopper when you hear it.
3.Scotty Doesn't Know
While 2004's EuroTrip is a raunchy sometimes crass movie that is actually funny, the highlight of the film is no doubt the song poking fun at main character's Scott lack of awareness his ex-girlfriend was a slut. Scotty Doesn't Know, which made even funnier when Matt Damon cameo's in the film to perform the song. It even is a running joke in the song, with a club cover played overseas. The song is so wrong, but so catchy Scotty just doesnt know.
2. Nights Like This
Robert Townsend's 1991 classic The Five Heartbeats had many folks questioning if the group really existed. The story is loosely based on old school r&b group The Dell's, but the Five Heartbeats is fictional. The film boasts several original hits showcasing the group's ascension to the top of the music world. The best song performed by the group is Night's Like This, r&b group After 7 performed the song for the soundtrack. The soulful doo wop song about a break up just hits you in the feels and have you thinking your apart of the group crying.
1. Eye 2 Eye
Honestly, what other fictional song could be number one? The energetic song performed by fictional superstar Powerline Eye 2 Eye or I 2 I is a chart topper. It has went quadruple platinum in my house since 1995 when A Goofy Movie was released. Performed by Tevin Campbell when the song plays you really can't help but get up and dance. And almost 30 years later it is still beloved, I wore a Powerline t-shirt a couple weeks ago and got several compliments with one person even mentioning the song instantly became stuck in their head. That just goes to show how great that song is.
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