Theatrical distribution plans remain undecided. Miyamoto described the film as a project aimed at expanding the world of video games and giving more life to the Pikmin characters. “PIKMIN Short Movies” is a 23-minute omnibus comprising the stories “The Night Juicer”, “Treasures in a Bottle”, and “Occupational Hazards”. It is now in its third edition on the Nintendo Wii U gaming console. Nintendo’s “Pikmin” game series, which was launched in 2001, follows the astronaut Captain Olimar and multicoloured plant-like Pikmin creatures as they collect items while dodging obstacles and battling monsters. “Making films in the past was something that was made with a completely different skill set but now I feel that it’s rather similar,” said Miyamoto, a senior managing director at Nintendo. But as computer graphics have gotten better, I started to feel that it’s something that I could get involved with,” he told Reuters in an interview.
He said he had balked for years at requests to make films with Nintendo characters but warmed to the possibilities of filmmaking given technological advances, though he has no intention to shift from games to the movie business. Miyamoto unveiled his latest project, “PIKMIN Short Movies”, at the Tokyo International Film Festival over the weekend - a 3D short-animation film based on Nintendo game characters of the same name. TOKYO, Oct 27 (Reuters) - “Super Mario Bros” creator Shigeru Miyamoto has produced some of the world’s biggest video game hits over the past three decades, and now he has added film producer to his long list of credits.
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