The fallout from Sony Pictures' giant e-mail leak in late 2014 continued after WikiLeaks began hosting the infamous collection of messages and attachments on Thursday. As a result, some of the leak's smaller revelations have begun coming to light. Among those is a series of messages about an interesting Sony Pictures plan: to acquire the film rights to the Super Smash Bros. game franchise and other Nintendo properties.

Two messages addressed to former Sony Pictures co-chair Amy Pascal—who stepped down shortly after the leak—referenced Nintendo's fan-service fighting series by name. One of those, sent in February 2014, referred to a "full court press" about the series, along with a meeting with producer Avi Arad who had been "planning to meet with his Nintendo guy (who he has been courting for a couple of years) when he goes to Japan." The other, sent directly to Arad by Pascal, was a November link to a story about the then-upcoming Amiibo toy line, which she described as an "interesting bit on Smash Brothers."

An untitled February e-mail conversation between Arad and Pascal was more vague; it referred to a "five year chase" of trying to lock down film rights to characters in the Mario, Zelda, and Donkey Kong series—all of whom figure in Smash Bros., among other games. Another vague e-mail, sent in July by Arad to Pascal, talked about a trip he was taking to Japan: "I am going to try and bring back a little plumber," he wrote. "I guess we can all use our pipes cleaned." He then asked whether Pascal was also interested in Pokemon, "the other property I am working on with Nintendo," and added that he was looking forward to "our big, big project."

Other e-mails mentioned Sony Pictures' aggressive plans to release films from both its own internal properties (Uncharted, Gran Turismo) and third parties (BioShock, Metal Gear Solid), but the idea of Sony pushing forward on a film that combined pretty much every major franchise of one of its major Japanese gaming competitors seems like the stuff of bonkers boardroom daydreams as opposed to a realistic deal. Our search for character names and other phrases didn't turn up anything in the way of confirmation that Sony Pictures had gotten anywhere with a Smash Bros. film-rights pitch to Nintendo.

“The proud father of Mario the animated film”

This news comes on top of Arad's bold claim in October, in which he told Pascal that he was "the proud father of Mario the animated film." That e-mail was reported shortly after the e-mail leak in December, but the Wikileaks dump includes the photos of Arad and Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto, along with another of Arad and Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata. We've posted the Miyamoto one above.

Other gaming-related tidbits in the dump include conversations about the upcoming Adam Sandler gaming-related feature Pixels (including internal dialogue about securing the rights to the Donkey Kong character for that movie), PowerPoint presentations about successful gaming tie-ins with film franchises, and attempts to acquire the film rights to Sonic the Hedgehog. In the latter deal, complications were mentioned about Sega's hesitance to move forward should Columbia Pictures be acquired by "a competitor of theirs," even though the e-mail admitted that Sega "accepts the current Sony/PlayStation situation."