Actor Pedro Pascal was the guest host on the latest episode of Saturday Night Live and the writers took advantage of that and his wildly-popular HBO series ‘The Last of Us’ to take another iconic video game and turn it into a dystopian drama – that being Mario Kart.
The trailer for Mario Kart, takes place ten years after the fall of their civilization. Pascal plays Mario, a former driver that’s enlisted by a rag-tag group of survivors to transport a princess through the dystopian wasteland of Mushroom Kingdom to Rainbow Bridge. Along the way they meet up with Goombas, Pookas, Toad, Yoshi and a certain plumber named Luigi – all the while pursued by the new end boss – Bowser.
As silly as it seems – give it a star like Pascal and a big-time budget and people would watch this in droves.
[YouTube: Saturday Night Live]
