I'm going to take JJ's idea and flesh it out better, and make it more original.
The idea we decided on in class, is to take the Mario world and give it a hit of acid. We're talking about mixing ideas from Oblivion, Fallout, and Tim Burton's style of Cinematography.
And it will be something worthy of pitching to Rockstar Games.
The idea is to make the Mushroom Kingdom dark, dreary, and full of the fallout of the disaster caused by the French Incident. The world will be fully merged with earth, such as Peach's Castle in the middle of Central Park.
Bowser will be like Mehrunes Dagon in Oblivion, a monster of gigantic proportions, nearly unstoppable without finding out how to fix the problem that caused the merger in the first place.
Mario will be a mix of Rambo and Anthony Soprano, Peach will be like Pamela Anderson and Angelina Jolie.
Basically, the idea is to base it off the good elements of the Super Mario Brothers movie, with some original elements to make it play to the hardcore gamers who hate kiddie stuff, and like survival/horror type games.
JJmusicnotes, thanks for the brilliant idea. There is so much more I could capitalize on, so if anyone feels like adding further input, i'd appreciate it very much! Just help me make it original, and try to do away with anything that would be considered copyright infringement, while still keeping some parody of the mario world.