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# Super Mario Bros. film scripts let us witness the (d)evolution of a story in real-time
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/super-mario-bros-film-scripts-let-us-witness-the/
- Published: 2011-07-26T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T15:52:27.000Z
- Description: If you’ve never seen the 1993 live-action Super Mario Bros. movie, consider yourself one of the lucky ones. If you have, then this suddenly makes it all worth it: Super Mario Bros.: The Movie Archive has compiled four early drafts of the film’s script, comprised of the original “Fantasy” version, th
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If you’ve never seen the 1993 live-action *Super Mario Bros.* movie, consider yourself one of the lucky ones. If you have, then this suddenly makes it all worth it: *Super Mario Bros.: The Movie Archive* has compiled four early drafts of the film’s script, comprised of the original “Fantasy” version, the “Ghostbusters-influenced” version, the “Die Hard-inspired” version and, finally, the “Mad Max-inspired” version.

Not that it matters, but isn’t it fun to imagine John McClane dressed as plumber, hopping down pipes? No? Not even a little?

In case knowing what could have been makes you feel worse, just whip out the old NES, blow the dust out of your *SMB* cartridge, and just pretend this whole thing never happened.

–*Lana Polansky*

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