If you’re going to adapt one of the greatest video games of all time, there are definitely worse things you can do than assemble a veritable constellation of stars to lead it. And for The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, Illumination and Nintendo’s upcoming follow up to billion-dollar grossing smash The Super Mario Bros. Movie, directors Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic have done precisely that. We already know the space-bound sequel is set to see Benny Safdie and Brie Larson enter the fray as Bowser Jr. and Princess Rosalina — and now, thanks to the film’s freshly dropped final trailer, we have confirmation that multi-hyphenate megastar Donald Glover will be voicing Mario and Luigi’s dino pal Yoshi in the upcoming animated movie. Check it out below;
Let’s-a-go! Not only does this last trailer for Horvath and Jelenic’s Super Mario Galaxy adaptation continue to show off the expanded scope and spectacle of the duo’s upcoming blockbuster, which is set to see Mario and co go head-to-head with Bowser’s (Jack Black) cannily named spawn Bowser Jr. on a galaxy-hopping cosmic joyride, but it also reveals a snippet of Glover’s Yoshi voice and a few others besides. Yes, along with Glover’s casting and voice reveal, Nintendo’s Super Mario Galaxy Movie Direct presentation confirmed that newly revealed characters Wart and Honey Queen, both glimpsed in the latest trailer, are voiced by Wednesday‘s Luis Guzmán and Across The Spider-Verse star Issa Rae respectively. They join Chris Pratt and Charlie Day’s Mario and Luigi, alongside fellow returnees Anya Taylor-Joy (Princess Peach), Kevin Michael Richardson (Kamek), and Keegan-Michael Key (Toad).
As of right now, we still don’t have an official synopsis for the movie from Illumination or Nintendo, though some errant cinema listings and unconfirmed plot descriptions hint at secret villains and reaffirm the Mario vs Bowser Jr. angle touted by the trailers thus far. We’ll find out exactly what The Super Mario Galaxy Movie has in store when we take the warp pipe to our nearest multiplex on 1 April.
