Screenwriter Max Landis Wrote Super Mario World Screenplay When He Was 19

The 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie has a lot of fans despite being an objectively terrible film. One of those fans is Max Landis, Chronicle screenwriter and son of famed director John Landis (Animal House, Coming to America). And about 10 years back, he decided to pen his own adaptation of Mario. Yesterday, he uploaded the whole thing online.

As a teen, Landis frequently challenged himself to write film and television scripts on a regular basis. Many of them remained unfinished, and nearly all of them were terrible by his own admission. Then there was Super Mario World — at 436 pages in length, it's "not a movie, it's a manifesto," as he describes. It's longer than any American-produced film in history. And it is very, very, very bad — again, his words!

But if you were interested in reading the Mario fan fiction of a kid who grew up to make Hollywood movies of his own, you are totally free to get cozy with the Brothers. It's got original songs, cameos from the Donkey Kong Country and Banjo-Kazooie universes, and no regard for pacing whatsover. Sounds like a treat!

As for the incredible art pieces in the header, Landis commissioned them from illustrator Darren Calvert. Check out his work here.