The sequel was confirmed in early 2024, with original directors Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic returning to helm the follow-up.

“While The Super Mario Galaxy games are the core inspiration for our story, this next film holds surprises for fans of every Mario era,” he said.

"It's a chapter that I think — I speak for all of us — that we'll never forget. It's been an extraordinary experience that none of us predicted and it is a once-in-a-career experience," he says.

The ending of The Long Walk, Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence 's Stephen King movie adaptation, takes a major departure from the source material, the horror best-seller's 1979 novel. "There's a switch at the end as to who survives that's so big I thought,

Stephen King has over 100 adaptations, if we're including sequels and spin-offs, and they don't stop coming.