10 Big-Budget Movies That Were Doomed From The Start
6. Super Mario Bros.
Bob Hoskins was asked three famous questions during a 2007 interview; what is the worst job you've ever done? What has been your biggest disappointment? If you could edit your past, what would you change? Unsurprisingly, the answer to all three was this train-wreck of a movie.
It has been a quarter of a century since the infamous Super Mario Bros. movie was released and Hollywood's video game curse remains unbroken, yet few of them come burdened with the unwanted legacy of Buena Vista Pictures' critical and commercial disaster.
From start to finish, the whole thing was a mess. The script was rewritten so many times on set that nobody had a clue what the hell was going on, the studio were pressuring the filmmakers for a more child-friendly product and the shoot was so disjointed that it went massively over-budget and over-schedule. Unsurprisingly, the finished movie was nothing short of a shambles, and bore all the hallmarks of a severely troubled production.
Failing to even recoup half of the $48m budget at the box office, Super Mario Bros. was such a misfire that Nintendo have not licensed any of their games for a movie adaptation since. Hoskins slated the project right up to his last days, and directing duo Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel have not made a feature-length theatrical film since.
All in all, not bad for Hollywood's first major video game adaptation.