Shigeru Miyamoto shares more info on how the upcoming Super Mario Bros. animated movie came to be

During their financial briefing, Nintendo confirmed a longstanding rumor. They are teaming with Illumination to create a Super Mario Bros. animated movie. Shigeru Miyamoto and Chris Meledandri of Illumination will be co-producing the film, and Miyamoto opened up a bit more on how the project came to be.

- Miyamoto has been considering an animated movie for many years
- he says creating games and movies aren’t really that similar
- interactive and passive media are very different, so if he wanted to make a movie, he’d like to have a movie expert work on it
- while meeting with many movie directors and producers, he was introduced to Illumination by Universal Parks & Resorts
- Meledandri revealed that he had read Miyamoto's interviews and said that the ways they create are similar
- the two ended up having a mutual understanding, and eventually said that they should do something together
- Meledandri is focused on making the film with a reasonable cost and deadline in order for it to be a success
- Miyamoto has felt that if they couldn’t make something interesting, then it would be better to quit
- they’ve already had multiple meetings for the screenplay so the project has actually progressed very far