Noel Clarke reveals Nintendo film adaptation he plans to make

Noel Clarke can presently be seen starring in season two of buddy cop drama Bulletproof on Sky One, however he has his eye on a really totally different venture subsequent.

Speaking to Digital Spy about his subsequent plans, Clarke mentioned that he desires to make a film adaptation of the 1989 animated American-Canadian Saturday morning cartoon Captain N: The Game Master, which featured characters from varied Nintendo video video games.

The animated collection ran for 3 seasons till 1991, and initially aired on NBC.

“Captain N was a high school kid who played Nintendo games, and then got sucked into his TV and ended up in another universe, full of video game characters,” defined Clarke.

“On his group had been Simon from Castlevania, Kid Icarus and Mega Man, they usually went on these adventures and solved a great deal of gaming crimes and issues. Mother Brain from Metroid was the primary villain.

“I used to be like, ‘Man, that might be so cool, now, in case you might make that film’. You know, the place you’ve got a highschool child who will get sucked into the gaming world, so I’ve really been checking these rights out… I’ve been fascinated with this rather a lot lately.”

Noel Clarke is a lifelong online game fanatic, lately revealing in an interview that he’s an enormous Super Mario, The Sims and Pokémon fan, amongst different franchises.

He mentioned that the sticking level for the venture in the intervening time although is getting the rights to make use of these Nintendo characters, together with the likes of Kid Icarus and Donkey Kong.

“I mean, it would be whatever we get. You know how difficult it would be to get characters from those different companies! But the main thing is trying to find out who owns the rights to Captain N,” Clarke defined of the venture’s present standing.

“Because essentially it was Nintendo, but I don’t think they own the rights to that character, so it’s been a bit of a chase. I’m currently searching.”

Until Clarke brings Donkey Kong and co to the massive display, we are able to see him on an altogether extra gritty journey alongside co-star Ashley Walters in Bulletproof, airing now on Sky One.

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