Keegan-Michael Key has confirmed Jack Black’s recent comments that a third “Super Mario Bros.” movie is targeting a 2029 release.
Speaking with ScreenRant for the digital release of “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie,” Key’s comments seem to match those made by Black in a Cinemax interview back in April in which he and Donald Glover did an improvised song about Bowser.
Black then added, “Don’t be surprised if you hear that coming out next time, in 2029.” At the time, it was seen as a joke, but now it appears there may have been more to it.
Key says directors Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic, who directed the first two films, have a passion for this franchise:
“We want to get it right. We want to get everything right. We want to get all the details right. And Michael and Aaron, who are our directors, have a real passion for this. I think they’re as passionate about these projects as the audience is. And so we got to get it right, we got to get it right. So I apologize. But it’ll be worth the wait. It’ll be worth the wait…’29 is better than sometime, right?”
The first film arrived in 2023, the second earlier this year. Key plays Toad and Black is Bowser in the films alongside Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Day, Seth Rogen, Fred Armisen, Sebastian Maniscalco, and Kevin Michael Richardson.
