Someone predicted Chris Pratt playing Mario over a year ago

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Fewer could have predicted Chris Pratt going from Star-Lord to collecting stars as Mario in the Superior Mario motion-picture show... take out for one and only Twitter user called the portly plumber's surprise voice cast well over a year ago.

"I'm calling it now, the Mario Bros movie will Non have Charles Moralist play Mario for no ground and plaster cast someone like Chris Pratt," @general_sthe said on Twitter back up in May 2020. No word yet on this week's drawing numbers, mind you.

I'm calling it now, the Mario Bros movie will NOT have Charlemagne Moralist play Mario for zero argue and cast someone same Chris PrattMay 21, 2020

Course, they'Ra hardly Nostradamus – and were perhaps mindful of the 21st One C course of hiring banging names instead of professional voice actors in animated movies. We're still not sure if Taylor Swift showing up in The Lorax was just a figment of our imaginations.

Pratt isn't the only A-list actor orientated to the Mushroom cloud Kingdom. A revealed during the Nintendo Direct September stream, Anya Taylor-Joy is playing Peach, Charlie Day is Luigi, Jack Black is Bowser, Keegan Michael-Headstone will represent playing Toad, Set Rogen is Domestic ass Kong, and Fred Armisen is portraying Techy Kong. Legendary Mario voice actor Charles Martinet will likewise appear in some capacity, to round off the Mario movie cast.

The Super Mario moving picture is set to release in the The States – other territories TBC – in Dec 2022. Before then, Pratt will be rocking up as Star-Lord once more in Guardians of the Beetleweed 3. There's as wel a Guardians crossover happening in Thor: Love and Hell dust, with the likes of Dave Bautista and Karen Gillan joining Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, and Tessa Homer Thompson as part of the disgorge.

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