Nintendo is going to make movies with some of its most popular characters

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Nintendo is getting into the movie making business again. 

The Japanese company behind hugely popular video game franchises Pokémon and the Super Mario series, announced Monday it was currently in talks to adapt some of its most popular gaming characters to the big screen, according to the Wall Street Journal. 

First reported by Japanese newspaper The Asahi Shimbun, Nintendo spokeman Makoto Wakae confirmed that Nintendo will have an involved hand in the creative processes for the movies, rather than simply licensing its characters to movie studios.

Asahi reports it's first project is likely an animated movie. The company has yet to announce which characters will make the jump to the big screen, though Nintendo has dabbled in filmmaking before.

In 1993, Super Mario was adapted into a famously awful live-action film starring John Leguizamo and Bob Hoskins. Pokémon, already a successful animated series, has several film adaptations but hasn't had a theatrical release in the U.S. since 1999's "Pokémon: The Movie 2000."

Here's to a Super Mario vs. Pokémon movie!

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