Shuntaro Furukawa, President of Nintendo, has come out to announce that the Super Mario movie which was announced early last year produced by Illumination Entertainment will launch “around 2022.”
According to Furukawa during Nintendo’s nine months financial results briefing for the fiscal year ending March 2019, “the development of animated film based on Super Mario Bros. with Illumination is moving along for an anticipated theatrical release around 2022.” Furukawa added that development of the “Super Nintendo World” area at Universal Studios Japan is scheduled for opening by the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. No additional information was made available.