In all the chaos regarding Sony and what is happening to their big films like James Bond, Spider-Man and Steve Jobs biopic a new smaller film seems to be in the works from them. The Amazing Spider-Man producer Avi Arad in October sent Sony head Amy Pascal an email confirming they have gotten the license from Nintendo to develop a Super Mario Brothers animated film

“I am the proud father of Mario the animated film,” Arad then forwarded Pascal separate images of him with Mario Bros. creator Shigeru Miyamoto and Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata, the latter of which included the message, “Happy CEO, lets get together, it’s the mother load.”

The two they suggest Hotel Transylvania director Genndy Tartakovsky to helm the movie but he is as-of-yet not involved in the project says BuzzFeed. This comes after the recently announced Sonic the Hedgehog animated movie was announced also at Sony. Could a Sonic vs Mario crossover happen in the not to distant future? Seems very possible now...But again the studio just got the rights to the character no script or director is in place as of yet.

Today, Max Landis the man who wrote the fan favorite POV-film Chronicle has unveiled a 436 page screenplay for Super Mario Brothers. (via MaxLandisWrites.com) Now before you think this is for an upcoming reboot of the Nintendo charact3ers after the disaster that was the 90's version starring John Leguizamo...it's not. Landis wrote this script back when he was 19 before he knew how to actually write a screenplay properly and professionally. For one he name drops almost every character that has ever appeared in a Mario game just because. But if you like to read his treatment it is below for you're viewing pleasure. Oh, and if this movie ever did become a movie it would be around 7 hours long! (1 page of a script = 1 minute of screen time)