Miyamoto indicates Super Smash Bros. movie won’t be happening any time soon

While hopes of a Super Smash Bros. movie had never been higher, it’s time to pump the breaks a bit as Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto has indicated that such a project won’t be happening anytime soon.

Miyamoto was recently discussing The Super Mario Galaxy Movie and how it has characters like Pikmin and R.O.B. With some fans discussing the possibility of a “Nintendo Cinematic Universe”, Polygon asked how how much he wants to grow Mario’s world to bring in other characters.

Miyamoto didn’t address the inclusion of Fox McCloud, but did say again that Pikmin can appear in any Nintendo franchise. He also stated that he doesn’t “think you’ll have a situation [where] all Nintendo characters would be joining.”

Miyamoto’s full words:

“Right off the bat, I’ll say that unlike something like Super Smash Bros., I don’t think you’ll have a situation [where] all Nintendo characters would be joining. As you know, my rule is that Pikmin can appear in any [Nintendo] series.

As we’re working on this movie, I re-realized how varied and how multi-talented the Mario cast is. When we had kind of ideas from Illumination about, ‘What about this character? What about that character?’ I was like, ‘Oh yeah, that’s right. We had this. Oh yeah, that’s right. We had that character.’ So it really kind of reaffirmed the varied nature of characters in the Mario world. We have plenty of characters to create a movie, and yet we wanted to add a little bit of spice, a little bit of secret cameos here and there. And you’ll see that there’s one secret character that plays a big role.

So I think there might be introductions of characters like this potentially in the future, something like that.”

Miyamoto also recently said that he’s “on a mission to try to include Pikmin in any kind of Nintendo product we put up”. We have more on that here.