I stumbled onto this site and was curious about if they had any old interview stuff from Hoskins about Super Mario Brothers that I didn't know. I found the same quote I've seen a bunch of times about how horrible it was but also this other, slightly different one with something very intriguing in it.
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Bob Hoskins
Super Mario Brothers had a husband and wife directing team whose arrogance convinced everybody of their genius, but I'm afraid the genius wasn't there, and we watch this completely lost. It started off a very good script, but the first day they threw the script away, and they said: we'll do this our way. And when they're gone over ten million dollars their own agents threw them off the set, then we said: we've got to finish this film ourselves. The editor came down and said: I don't know what we are gonna do, we haven't one single finished scene. So basically in a week, in two weeks, we had to cobble together the film and what could have been a very, very interesting film went up... rubbish, complete rubbish. My attraction was the money in the first place (little laughter in the room).
I want to know where this "very good script" that "could have been a very, very interesting film" is. Hoskins does a pretty good job of picking projects, and I've yet to not love him in whatever he's in (I'm a big fan of his work Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Hook in particular, as well as Super Mario Brothers for a stupid kind of fun). If he says there was a good movie there, I would absolutely love to have seen him play Mario in it.
