The Super Mario Bros. Movie 2 (2023 film)

Plot
Roughly eight months after defeating Bowser, after seeing a significant water main leak on the news, Mario and Toad go underground to fix it with little success. Luigi advises Mario and Princess Peach to remain about for the valentine day before he and Toad depart for Nigel's wedding in Hawaii.

Mario and Peach plans to have fun while dating but is attacked by Bowser, who has escaped the mushroom planet with the help of a Germain-American named Wario. To honor his ancestors, Wario demands the location of the legendary Superstar Emerald, an ancient relic that grants its user immense power and the ability to change reality to their will.

Mario and Peach is rescued by Yoshi, an anthropomorphic dinosaur who idolizes him and comes to warn him about Wario. In the Mushroom Kingdom, Mario, Peach convinces Yoshi to help him find the Superstar Emerald while Bowser reunites with his advisor Kamek and, scheming to steal the emerald, offers to help Wario. Meanwhile, Mario, Peach and Yoshi follow clues to a Siberian cave on a map who is Peach's mom, gave her before sending him to Mushroom Kingdom, where they find a compass within a temple. Bowser and Wario track them and chase Mario, Peach and Yoshi down a mountain. Wario reveals that he lost his father and his whole tribe the same day Princess Peach lost her mother. Despite this brief moment of sympathy, Wario and Bowser steal the compass, though Wario begins to question Bowser's sense of loyalty and honor when he mocks Peach for choosing to save a wounded Mario and Yoshi instead of the compass.

Luigi saves Mario, Peach and Yoshi by using a ring to teleport them to the wedding, and Princess Daisy, the ruler of Sarasaland and Luigi love interest found Princess Peach, her long-lost sister. Finds out himself for Yoshi' injuries and Peach lost family, Mario decides to face Bowser and Wario with them and help of the kongs, where he fights with Wario to keep him from taking the Superstar Emerald, and Mario allows Luigi, Daisy and Toad to travel with them. In the Jungle Kingdom, King Cranky Kong agrees to help if Mario defeats his son, Donkey Kong, in a fight. Despite Donkey Kong's immense strength, Mario defeats him using a Cat Suit.

Meanwhile, Bowser and Wario find an underwater temple containing the Superstar Emerald. Mario, Peach, Luigi, Daisy, Yoshi, Toad, and the Kongs use karts to drive back to the Mushroom Kingdom, but Bowser's army ambushes them on Rainbow Road. When a blue-shelled Koopa General destroys part of the road in a kamikaze attack, Mario and Donkey Kong plummet to the ocean while the other Kongs are captured.

Donkey Kong, having been eaten by an eel-like Maw-Ray, except Mario. Seeing this as an opportunity, Bowser uses the distraction to seize and fuse himself with the emerald, which explodes and sinks the temple into the water. With no use left for Wario, Bowser betrays him and leaves him, along with Mario, behind for dead. Working together, Mario and Wario are able to escape just as Yoshi rescues them in a biplane, and Donkey Kong escape the Maw-Ray by riding a rocket from his kart, Yoshi learn Mario and Donkey Kong both want the respect of their fathers.

In Mushroom Kingdom, Peach, Luigi, Daisy and Toad return and urge the citizens to evacuate. Bowser uses his new abilities to create a giant robot as Mecha-Bowser ressemble ping himself. Peach realize that Mario was right he can’t give up his family. Mario, Yoshi, Donkey Kong, Daisy, and Wario work together to fight the robot and its accompanying Koopas and to reclaim the Superstar Emerald; however, it breaks, splitting into the seven Destiny Stars. Donkey Kong arrive and free the prisoners. Peach and Luigi save Mario, who uses the Destiny Stars to transform into Super Invisible Mario. He destroys the robot before dispersing the stars and reverting to normal. In the aftermath, Peach then shrinks Bowser with a Blue Mushroom and imprisons him, and Wario fixes the Superstar Emerald from the remaining shards before making a pact to protect it from evil with Mario, Peach, and Yoshi, and they start an idyllic life with the Super Mario Families. Even thought, Mario and Princess Peach will married soon even Luigi and Princess Daisy.

Development
In March 2017, Furukawa said that Nintendo was interested in producing more animated films based on its intellectual properties if the Mario Bros. film is successful. In a Variety cover story before the film's release, producer Kerner expressed interest in developing a sequel that focused on Mario and Peach' friendship and further developed Bowser. In April 2017, Pratt also expressed interest in a sequel featuring several characters from the video games, including Yoshi, who appeared in a mid-credits scene in the first film.

In November 2018, Disney CEO Bob Iger and Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa confirmed that a sequel to The Super Mario Bros. Movie was in development, with Don Hall set to return as director after first film alongside writers J. David Stem, David N. Weiss, Jay Scherick and David Ronn. Jordan Kerner, Shigeru Miyamoto, Roy Conli will produce the sequel, having previously co-produced the first film alongside Shigeru Miyamoto, while Ben Haber, Ezra Swerdlow, Yusuku Beppu will return from the first film as executive producers. In December, it was confirmed by storyboard artist Charlotte Kristoff, would be returning.

In August 2021, the film title was announced as The Super Mario Bros. Movie 2. In May, a synopsis of the story was released as Walt Disney Pictures submitted a copyright registration to the U.S. Copyright Office catalog. Karey Kirkpatrick and John Whittington was announced as a co-screenwriter.