As the appetite for comic book movies continues to wane, Hollywood is looking to the world of gaming for source material (and die-hard fans) – but past attempts haven’t always been successful
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We’ve come a long way from Super Mario Bros… Released in cinemas in May 1993, up against a summer of memorable blockbusters like Jurassic Park, Cliffhanger, and The Fugitive, the first-ever live-action movie adapted from a video game was seen as being as close to a sure bet as possible.
Instead, we got a critical and commercial mega-flop, and an end product that star Bob Hoskins said he considered to be the single worst job he’d ever had. It was so bad that both the company, Nintendo, as well as Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto, wouldn’t allow any more adaptations of their works for a long, long time.
