{"id":303389,"date":"2026-01-25T20:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T20:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/303389\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T20:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T20:14:07","slug":"first-look-at-yoshi-in-super-mario-galaxy-movie-as-release-date-moves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/303389\/","title":{"rendered":"First Look at Yoshi in Super Mario Galaxy Movie as Release Date Moves"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAttention Super Marios Bros. fans: Yoshi is coming, and he will be hatching in theaters a few days earlier than planned.<\/p>\n

\n\tIllumination and Nintendo<\/a> said Sunday that The Super Mario Galaxy Movie<\/a>\u00a0will now open in the United States and many other countries on Wednesday, April 1, 2026 moving up from April 3 (It will be released in Japan April 24, and other markets throughout the month). <\/p>\n

\n\tThe companies also debuted a first look at the most anticipated new character to join the animated universe: Yoshi, the green dinosaur that assists Mario and Luigi on their adventures.<\/p>\n

\n\tWatch the new trailer below:<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Super Mario Galaxy Movie is the sequel to the smash hit 2023 Super Mario Bros. Movie, which took Nintendo\u2019s iconic plumbers and turned them into their first animated feature.<\/p>\n

\n\tOriginal stars including Chris Pratt (Mario), Anya Taylor-Joy (Princess Peach), Charlie Day (Luigi), Jack Black (Bowser), Keegan-Michael Key (Toad) and Kevin Michael Richardson (Kamek) will all return<\/a> for the sequel, joined by Bennie Safdie (Bowser Jr.) and Brie Larson (Rosalina), as well as Yoshi.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film is being co-financed by Universal Pictures<\/a> and Nintendo, with Universal releasing the film worldwide. It\u00a0is directed by returning filmmakers Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic, from a screenplay by returning screenwriter Matthew Fogel, with Brian Tyler returning to compose the score.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Attention Super Marios Bros. fans: Yoshi is coming, and he will be hatching in theaters a few days…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[18,117,19,149408,17,327,3904,99119,99120,17908],"class_list":{"0":"post-303389","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-illumination-entertainment","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-nintendo","15":"tag-the-super-mario-bros-movie","16":"tag-the-super-mario-galaxy-movie","17":"tag-universal-pictures"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}