During today’s Nintendo Direct presentation, Nintendo and Illumination announced that the forthcoming Mario film will be released on December 21st, 2022, with Chris Pratt voicing Mario.

Anya Taylor-Joy will play Princess Peach, Charlie Day will play Luigi, Jack Black will play Bowser, Seth Rogan will play Donkey Kong, Keegan-Michael Key will play Toad, and Fred Armisen will play Cranky Kong in the forthcoming film.

For “surprise cameos,” Charles Martinet, who has voiced Mario in Nintendo games for almost three decades, will appear in the film. Kevin Michael Richardson as Kamek and Sebastian Maniscalco as Spike are also slated to star in the flick.

Despite the knowledge that Nintendo was collaborating on the project with Illumination, the animation company behind films like “Despicable Me” and “Minions,” and that Mario inventor Shigeru Miyamoto was engaged as a producer, there has been little news about the impending Mario film until today.

Nintendo has revealed a few additional facts about the upcoming film, including the fact that it will be directed by Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic (Teen Titans Go! and Teen Titans Go! To the Movies), and will include a screenplay by Matthew Fogel (The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part and Minions: The Rise of Gru.)

There’s no title or basic story elements yet, but with a release date in less than a year, we’ll most certainly learn more about the next picture in the months ahead.