“The Super Mario Bros. Movie 2”: Sequel's Official Title and Release Date Finally Announced

Chris Pratt's Mario is blasting disconnected into Nintendo's wider galaxy.

Illumination and Nintendo announced connected Friday, Sept. 12 that nan sequel to nan container agency record-breaking animated The Super Mario Bros. Movie will beryllium titled The Super Mario Galaxy Movie. The movie is group for merchandise connected April 3, 2026, almost precisely 3 years aft nan first movie earned nan apical opening of each clip for an animated film pinch $377 cardinal successful worldwide summons sales.

New footage from nan task concisely shows Pratt's Mario resting his eyes arsenic he naps against a tree. After a butterfly lands connected him, it flies passim overmuch of nan Mushroom Kingdom, showing disconnected various characters from nan world of Mario until it flies past Princess Peach's castle and into outer space. 

Aside from Pratt, 46, returning to sound nan iconic video crippled plumber, Anya-Taylor Joy will reprise her sound domiciled arsenic Princess Peach, while Charlie Day, Jack Black, Keegan-Michael Key and Kevin Michael Richardson will reprise their respective sound roles arsenic Luigi, Bowser, Toad and Kamen. 

The Super Mario Bros. Movie went connected to cod earned complete $1 cardinal worldwide astatine nan container agency and is nan 18th highest-grossing movie of each clip worldwide, according to Box Office Mojo.

Nintendo and Illumination first announced that they were processing a sequel to The Super Mario Bros. Movie successful March 2024. "We're reasoning astir broadening Mario's world further, and it'll person a agleam and nosy story," nan companies said astatine nan time. 

While nan first movie took its title from Nintendo's original 1985 Super Mario Bros. game, Super Mario Galaxy takes its title from Nintendo's 2007 game, which saw Mario return disconnected crossed nan beingness to different galaxies and planets successful a caller effort to rescue Princess Peach from Bowser. In that game, Mario is aided by a star-shaped characteristic called a Luma aft Bowser kidnaps Peach utilizing a flying saucer and takes disconnected into space. 

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Directed by Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic, The Super Mario Bros. Movie came from Nintendo and Illumination, nan workplace down the Despicable Me and Minions franchises. Horvath and Jelenic return to nonstop nan caller movie successful nan series; Nintendo and Illumination added successful its property merchandise that further characters and sound formed for nan movie will beryllium introduced down nan line.

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie hits theaters successful April 3, 2026.