Super Mario Bros. (1993 Movie - Deleted Scenes)

Super Mario Brothers is a 1993 film, released by Disney via their Hollywood Pictures brand, produced by Lightmotive in collaboration with Allied Filmmakers, directed by Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel

The Film is notorious for either being the worst Video game adaptation, or the best, with it's audacious changes from it's source material, sacrificing most of the game's assets to form it's own coherent plot, and work in itself more as a movie, than a video game adaptation.

About the Production/Changes
Ideas for a movie based of the popular Nintendo game, Super Mario Bros. were floating around since May 1991, when LightMotive's head, Roland Joffé, pitched the first draft of the movie, a more accurate to the game, which had a Wizard of Oz vibe to it, to Nintendo, which accepted the deal.

For a while, no one wanted to do the Wizard of Oz version of the screenplay, and desperate to find a director, husband-and-wife directors, Rocky and Annabel were brought in, and poured all of their ideas into the project, which gave birth to a Second draft of the script, and the Third one, known for it's dark settings and character development.

This third screenplay, the Mad Max was known for being really promising, and brought production designer David Snyder, of the Blade Runner fame and actors Bob Hoskins, Dennis Hopper and Fionna Shaw among many others.

Then Disney bought the rights of the film, and ordered several changes to the film, ranging from toning down extremely dark tones, to dumbing down characters immensively, many other writers were brought in to re-write the screenplay, and by the time production kicked in, they were still working on it.

Production on Super Mario Brothers was hell, to say the least, it took way longer than it should to film all that, the directors got way over their heads, and started paying more attention to the special effects than in the actors themselves. In any way, the film was finished.

The original running time of the film was of 2 Hours and 10 minutes, but to keep it low, and to reduce the estimated PG-13 rating, it was cut by 30 minutes, losing many sub-plots, action scenes and character development in the process.

Deleted Scenes
- The original Dinosaur prologue, which was cut and replaced by an animated intro, narrated by Dan Castellaneta

- Extra shots of Koopa chasing Daisy's mother on the intro

- The Mario Brothers at the Riverfront Café, there, they find Scapelli plumbers, losing their job in the process

- An alternate scene of Luigi meeting Daisy in the Riverfront Café. Daisy accidentally breaks all the dishes that were being carried by a waiter, but Luigi steps in and pays for the damaged while assuming fault.

- Mario and Luigi preparing for their date, in this scene, it's mentioned that Daniella's full name is Daniella Pauline Verducci. There's also the Family Pride subplot.

- An alternate introduction for King Koopa, not much is known about this one

- Many scenes involving the Missing Brooklyn Babes, one of them featured in the Making Of where one of the girls offers a cigarette to a Goomba.

- Mario and Luigi discussing Family Pride, again, in the Prison Cell

- One of the most known scenes to be deleted from the film, the scene of who was transformed into slime in the De-vo Chamber, many were chosen to be de-evolved, Toad, a Goomba, Simon, one of the Technicians, but no one is certain about who was de-evolved.

- A whole subplot involving Koopa's slow de-evolution throughout the film, though better explored on earlier drafts of the film.

- A longer Car Chase scene, not much is known about these scenes other than a few shots present on the trailer, ranging from reaction shots to cars crashing on one another

- Iggy and Spike's rap on the Boom Boom Bar

- Mario bouncing in the Fungus Trampoline, while Luigi hangs by his belt on the hook, in the Elevator Shaft. This scene was supposed to give closure to the Family Pride subplot.

- Alternate scenes of Lena handing Koopa the rock, only to have him later ditch her for Daisy because she is a Princess.

- An entire sequence featuring Mario getting chased by Goombas on Koopa's Tower, after Daisy tells him where Daniella is

- After the Goombas break in the room where the Missing Brooklyn Babes were, a Goomba walks up to the pipe entrance, and from there it cuts to the Slide scene.

- Only Referenced on many of the earlier screenplays, the Climax was supposed to be longer and much more complex, while the dimentions merge, Goombas get caught between walls, making them explode, buildings would fuse with one another, and in the middle of all this chaos, Mario would face off Koopa on the Brooklyn Bridge, he sets up the Bob-Omb, while Koopa would fully de-evolve into a Tiranossaurus Rex/Human hybrid, grabing him by the neck, raising his head, roaring in victory, only to have the Bob-Omb fall in his mouth, blocking his throat, and making him fall off the Bridge, exploding in little bits once as he hit the water. It was never shot due to budgetary issues.