The film marked the first major stab at a puzzle that Hollywood has been trying to solve ever since. “I saw this thing jumping up and down,” Hoskins later recalled, in doubtful tones. “This is you!” one said, gesturing to a pixelated mustachioed plumber. Hoskins himself hadn’t even heard of the Nintendo franchise-but when his kids learned that he would be playing Mario they excitedly showed him the game. The movie’s eventual tagline, “This ain’t no game,” reflected a self-conscious distance from its source material: a convoluted parallel-universe plot recast the heroes as Italian American handymen from Brooklyn and the princess they set out to save as an N.Y.U. The year was 1992, and, although the title on which the film was based had sold tens of millions of copies, a feature-length live-action adaptation of a video game had never been attempted. When the British actor Bob Hoskins agreed to star in “Super Mario Bros.,” he had little sense of what he was getting into.
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