After a long hiatus from the movie world, Nintendo is reportedly back in talks with Hollywood.
As Fortune reports, the game maker took a long break after its film version of Super Mario Bros. bombed in 1993.
Now that modern media is converging in all worlds, Nintendo is taking another look. Fortune reports that the new efforts will be led by Nintendo’s Software Planning & Development Division and “creative mastermind” Shigeru Miyamoto.
“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 — and we’ll potentially be looking at things like movies in the future,” Miyamoto told Fortune at E3.
A few rumors floating out there about where Nintendo will show up first? No word yet. While Nintendo’s big game plan to move profits forward involves gaming for smartphones and tablets, it’s been pretty mum on how any potential Hollywood film partnership will work out.
As we reported in July, Nintendo beat analyst projects and posted a quarterly profit of $9.3 million. The video game company reported selling 470,000 Wii U consoles from April to June, which also helped boost it above the 10 million units sold mark. Nintendo posted its first annual profit since 2011 earlier this year.
Nintendo has a had a huge year in news: Nintendo Co. President Satoru Iwata’s death, relaunching Nintendo’s World Championships, and it’s also the 30th anniversary of Super Mario Bros. The company is releasing a revamped Super Mario to celebrate: Super Mario Maker is out Sept. 11.
