Nintendo Movies Starring 'Characters Everyone Knows' Are Coming Soon

If you're not making movies and TV series with your culturally beloved/nostalgia-friendly non-movie/TV franchises, you're doing it wrong. And Nintendo is starting to do it right.

The Asahi Shimbun (via Vulture) reports that the gaming giant is aiming to get a movie in theaters in the next two-to-three years. It's negotiating with production companies across the globe, but company president Tatsumi Kimishima says, “We want to do as much as we can by ourselves."

The publication says the first Nintendo flick "will likely be a 3-D animated movie." As far as subject matter, Variety's story quotes Kimishima as saying, “All I can say is that characters everyone knows will appear.”