“Super Mario Brothers” is one of the biggest train wrecks in modern Hollywood. A script rewritten almost daily; four different directors including Roland Joffe, the guy who directed “The Killing Fields”; dozens of injuries, most of them to Bob Hoskins; and allegedly dozens of re-edits. Even if it weren’t an adaptation of the unadaptable, it’d be a mess.
Also, Bob Hoskins, nearly two decades later, still hates it. Which is less than surprising considering he and John Leguizamo basically got wasted every single night during production to get through the experience. How much does he hate it? Here’s a recent interview:
What’s the worst job you’ve ever done?
Super Mario Brothers.
What has been your biggest disappointment?
Super Mario Brothers.
If you could edit your past, what would you change?
I wouldn’t do Super Mario Brothers.
So…no sequel?
[ via the '90s fans at Kotaku ]
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As Dennis Hopper said:
“I made a picture called Super Mario Bros., and my six-year-old son at the time — he’s now 18 — he said, ‘Dad, I think you’re probably a pretty good actor, but why did you play that terrible guy King Koopa in Super Mario Bros.?’ and I said, ‘Well Henry, I did that so you could have shoes,’ and he said, ‘Dad, I don’t need shoes that badly.’”