{"id":2439,"date":"2022-06-21T03:10:46","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T03:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/21\/mario-movie-producer-defends-chris-pratts-casting-again-says-movie-is-75-complete\/"},"modified":"2022-06-21T03:10:46","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T03:10:46","slug":"mario-movie-producer-defends-chris-pratts-casting-again-says-movie-is-75-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/21\/mario-movie-producer-defends-chris-pratts-casting-again-says-movie-is-75-complete\/","title":{"rendered":"Mario Movie Producer Defends Chris Pratt&#8217;s Casting (Again), Says Movie Is 75% Complete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;I love his performance as Mario&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2021\/09\/the_super_mario_movies_release_date_and_cast_are_revealed\">Nintendo revealed the cast of the Super Mario animated movie<\/a>, a lot of fans were surprised to see the long-time voice of Mario, Charles Martinet, had been replaced with Hollywood movie star Chris Pratt.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, concerns have been raised about a non-Italian actor being given the role of Mario in his first animated movie outing. We&#8217;ve heard Illumination CEO and the film&#8217;s co-producer Chris Meledandri <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2021\/11\/mario-movie-producer-defends-chris-pratts-casting-says-the-voice-is-phenomenal\">defend this casting before<\/a> &#8211; noting how the voice is &#8220;phenomenal&#8221; and now the topic has been raised once again.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/06\/mario-movie-producer-defends-chris-pratts-casting-again-says-movie-is-75percent-complete\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]Mario Movie Producer Defends Chris Pratt&#8217;s Casting (Again), Says Movie Is 75% Complete<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I love his performance as Mario&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2021\/09\/the_super_mario_movies_release_date_and_cast_are_revealed\">Nintendo revealed the cast of the Super Mario animated movie<\/a>, a lot of fans were surprised to see the long-time voice of Mario, Charles Martinet, had been replaced with Hollywood movie star Chris Pratt.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, concerns have been raised about a non-Italian actor being given the role of Mario in his first animated movie outing. We&#8217;ve heard Illumination CEO and the film&#8217;s co-producer Chris Meledandri <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2021\/11\/mario-movie-producer-defends-chris-pratts-casting-says-the-voice-is-phenomenal\">defend this casting before<\/a> &#8211; noting how the voice is &#8220;phenomenal&#8221; and now the topic has been raised once again.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/06\/mario-movie-producer-defends-chris-pratts-casting-again-says-movie-is-75percent-complete\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}