The cast literally anyone else in the Mario movie Megathread

The Late Ed Asner as Toad

Michael Shannon as Bowser

Kim Cattrall as Princess Daisy

A medium-sized tungsten ingot as Mario.

No. Everyone aside from Mario is godlike.

Keegan Michael Key as Toad was way too funny.

Just put the entire cast of Always Sunny in it.

Jason Statham as Mario.

Look, aside from Pratt they're not awful. But let's allow ourselves a little fun with this.

Jared Leto as Waluigi, already mailing dead rats to his castmates.

Get Peter Cullen in there. I mean, yeah, it's been close to 40 years... But the original animated Mario deserves some screen time.

I really wanted James Gandolfini as Bowser back in the day as he reminded me of the character stomping around the house barefoot in The Sopranos. Obviously someone was thinking the same thing by casting him in Where The Wild Things Are.

Paul F. Tompkins as Mario.

Jason Alexander as Luigi.

Wayne Knight as Wario.

Jack Nicholson as Wario
Quentin Tarantino as Waluigi
John Leguizamo as The Pest

@banefirelord: Actually, Paul F. Tompkins could actually pull it off in his own way.

Danny Devito as Toad > Danny Devito as Mario > Danny Devito as Wario

I'm actually fine with this.

Vin Diesel as Mario.

Just gonna leave this here:

@ben_h: Wow, it's been a minute since Dan has cracked me up this hard.

Randall Park as Mario

Kumail Nanjiani as Luigi

Natasha Lyonne as Princess Peach

Lewis Black as Bowser

Wilford Brimley as Toadsworth.

Jack Black or Danny DeVito as Mario.

Danny DeVito as Bowser.

Danny DeVito as Toad.

Danny DeVito as Peach.

Edward Norton can play any role.

Joe Pesci as Mario (obviously)

Johnny Depp as Luigi

Tom Hardy as Bowser

Michelle Rodriguez as Princess Peach

An actual gorilla as Donkey Kong

And I'm not sure why they left out the best Mario universe character, but...
Ryan Gosling as Wario

Nic Cage should play Mario. But also, he should be live action, and everything else is still CG.

I wouldn’t change a thing.

Evan Stone as Mario

Martin Freeman as Mario

Adrien Brody as Luigi

Meryl Streep as Peach

Alec Baldwin as Bowser

Will Arnett as Toad

Bob Hoskins as Mario

Pratt should just do all the voices so it’s a cohesive package.

It’s not surprising but it is disheartening to see screen actors still getting cast for voice work instead of voice actors that actually know what they’re doing. Good for marketing but really bad for the project.

@humanity: Eh. I'm not going to defend the casting choices in this particular case, but in general any good actor can be a good voice actor. It's not like casting established screen actors is a new thing in animated films, and it's pretty tough to argue those films would have been better with voice acting specialists.

@humanity: I mean, the dude has said some shit that will bug people but come on. This is the WORST possible casting for a role already doomed to fail.

I hope the movie is fun and some of the casting seems fun but...it's MARIO and the most boring voice actor that they could chosen.

@frytup: Yah screen actors do an alright job but obviously people that do it for a living and know how to modulate their voice a lot better are going to do a better job. It's just a cheap prestige trick to get more attention for an animated movie.

I'm neutral on Pratt but otherwise the cast seems fantastic. I think it's safe to say that the movie is going to be very different from the games for many reasons and it's weird for people to get hang up on what Mario, a character that never speak in anything other than annoying high-pitched "yahoos" and "wohoos", is supposed to sound like.

I'm just hoping that Fred Armisen does some Cranky Kong cosplay as part of the marketing for this

It is sort of funny how 30 and 40 year olds want the voices for these characters to be 50 and 60 year olds. I get is those are voices from 'your own' youth; but these characters are not for you anymore...or at least you are not who Nintendo has to please.
Most of the actors should be 25-30 year olds, or Anya Taylor-Joy's age.

Anyways this won't matter much since IATSE and other connected Hollywood unions are striking at this point. If Hollywood producers don't parlay with the leaders of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees union, which represents around 150,000 of Hollywood’s crafts workers, nothing is going to happen for the rest of this year. The 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike, took 14 weeks in 2008. We can hope this is shorter, but I this is the breaking point of a distute over A LOT of money so it could be a lengthy strike.

Sam Rockwell as Mario

Dame Helen Mirren as Peach

Woody Allen as Toad

Russell Crowe as Luigi

Al Pacino as Bowser

Although my real problem with this is how the movies go down the Brooklyn born-and-raised LIES. In the games, Mario is Italian as they come. Not only is he Italian but he was born in a fictional Mushroom land.

HOO-AH! (Breathes fire simultaneously.)

Jason Bateman as Mario
Tony Hale as Luigi
Portia de Rossi as Peach
Will Arnett as Bowser
MIchael Cera as Toad
David Cross as Donkey Kong

Vinny Caravella as Marry-oh

Alex Navarro as Luigi

Abby Russell as Peach & Toad

Jeff Gerstmann as Bowser

Jeff Bakalar as Donkey Kong

Obligatory Dan Ryckert as Waluigi

Jan Ochoa as the Axem Rangers

Jason Oestreicher as Shy Guy

Ben Pack as Wiggler

Brad Shoemaker as Kamek

Danny O'Dwyer as Yoshi

Nick Nolte as Bowser. Just sayin'.

@doctorfaust: Development of the film would be very much in arrested status with that cast.

I largely like the cast we're getting. I would not have chosen Pratt as Mario (I don't see the range in him) but I also wouldn't have had Charles Martinet in the full speaking role; Jeff Gerstmann made a lot of sense on the last Bombcast.

HOWEVER, I've had a Mario movie cast in my mind for a while now, so this is good an avenue as any to share it. My Mario movie would be a live-action/animation hybrid:

Bobby Moynihan as Mario

Ben Schwartz as Luigi

Gillian Jacobs as Peach

Mindy Kaling as Daisy (yes, I have Daisy in my movie)

In voice roles:

Ian McShane as Bowser

Joe Lo Truglio as Toad

John Oliver as Kamek

An uncredited John C. Reilly as Donkey Kong

No Yoshi, no Wario, no Waluigi. They can be in the sequel. Maybe tease Yoshi during/after the credits of the first movie with a shot of the egg. No casting ideas yet, but I was thinking Danny McBride could make a good Wario, because he's good at playing dirtbags that think they're better.

Then in the likely third movie, I had the idea of casting Lady Gaga as Pauline. Just for the sake of singing the Odyssey song, and for the joke about how she doesn't have a problem with Koopas, because she had a very good working relationship with a Koopa... named Bradley Koopa.

All the social media backlash to Pratt has made me turn a corner and now I actually wish it were Pratt doing the role in a properly terrible live-action followup to the '93 film. At this point I have to imagine whatever VO performance he offers is going to be extra safe and as pandering as possible, as any liberties taken will be under a microscope and draw ire.