Nintendo might be planning to make more movies based on their popular video games.
In an interview with Fortune, Nintendo game designer Shigeru Miyamoto hinted that the company might be looking to enter the movie business.
“As we look more broadly at what is Nintendo’s role as an entertainment company, we’re starting to think more and more about how movies can fit in with that,” Miyamoto said. “And we’ll potentially be looking at things like movies in the future.”
Of course Nintendo is no stranger to the movie industry, having produced the notoriously terrible 1993 live-action movie Super Mario Bros.
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Since the Mario flop, the game company has mostly stuck to what it does best. But 20 years down the line, might the timing be right for new movies based on Nintendo’s iconic franchises?
Although the rumored Netflix Legend of Zelda series turned out to be just a rumor, fans were generally excited at the possibility of seeing live-action versions of Link, Zelda, Malon, and their other favorite characters.
Nintendo is certainly expanding in other areas, with plans to bring its franchises to Universal theme parks. They’re also working on a brand new gaming system titled “NX,” expected in 2016.
“Because games and movies seem like similar mediums, people’s natural expectation is we want to take our games and turn them into movies,” Miyamoto mused in the interview. “I’ve always felt video games, being an interactive medium, and movies, being a passive medium, mean the two are quite different.”