As part of it latest Direct showcase, Nintendo has had a bit of a Mario moment to celebrate the iconic plumber’s 40th anniversary. Alongside other bits of moustache-adjacent news we got a very first look at the second Mario movie, officially titled The Super Mario Galaxy Movie.
Animation studio Illumination’s breezy but entertaining first movie adaptation – officially (and unimaginatively) titled The Super Mario Bros. Movie – proved to be an huge hit when it released in 2023, grossing over $1bn world-wide. So a sequel was almost inevitable.
To date, details on the follow-up have been limited, although Toad voice actor Keegan-Michael Key did last year tease it would feature an “intriguing” setting alongside “old favourite” characters and “really deep cuts”. Then, this May, it looked like NBCUniversal had inadvertently revealed the sequel’s title: Super Mario World.
That, it turns out, was wrong. Instead, it’s called The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, and we got a very first trailer as part of Nintendo’s latest Direct. Cue the internet leaning in for careful scrutiny in a bid to reveal its many Mario-themed secrets.
The Mario movie sequel, as previously confirmed by Nintendo, releases on 3rd April 2026 in the US, with a Japanese release scheduled for 24th April. Expect it to arrive for most other territories somewhere in-between.
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