Mario Bros get the Scorsese treatment in this Goodfellas-inspired short

If Nick Gregorio had directed the original Super Mario Bros movie, it may have actually been watchable. Instead, we ended up with a dumpster fire on the big screen that featured the likes of Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo — both of which would have made stellar mobsters if they’d gone the Goodfellas angle of Gregorio’s short. It’s too late for the original, but Gregorio’s Scorsese-inspired vision of the classic Nintendo franchise is nothing short of incredible. Plumbers can only climb so high in Brooklyn. Mario and Luigi are looking to fly. So starts the violent and drug-fueled seven minute trailer of…
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