The Super Mario Galaxy Movie shoots for the stars in first trailer

Nintendo and Illumination’s next big screen collaboration hits theaters on April 3rd, 2026.

by Charles Pulliam-Moore

Nov 12, 2025, 2:36 PM UTC

Charles Pulliam-Moore is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years.

The first full Super Mario Galaxy Movie trailer has finally landed, and it looks like Nintendo and Illumination are doing it big for their next animated feature.

Though there are a few shots of the Mushroom Kingdom and a very miniscule Bowser (Jack Black) imprisoned in a tiny castle, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’s new trailer has everyone looking up to the sky as Mario (Chris Pratt), Luigi (Charlie Day), Toad (Keegan-Michael Key) and Princess Peach (Anya Taylor-Joy) venture off into space. That’s where the group encounters a vengeful Bowser Jr. (Benny Safdie) who’s ready to wage war and free his father using a magic paintbrush that can transform things into metallic versions of themselves. The young villain’s arsenal of weapons makes it seem like Mario and his crew might be outgunned for a while. But the heroes will have Princess Rosalina (Brie Larson) — who looks like she’ll end up being a heavy hitter — on their side.

The trailer leans heavily into the action set pieces team Mario will find themselves at the center of as they hop from planet to planet looking for a way to stop their new foe. Curiously, Yoshi doesn’t make an appearance here. But given the last film’s post credits sequence, we can probably expect to see the shoe-wearing dinosaur as we get closer to The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’s April 3rd, 2026 premiere date.

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