Miyamoto explains how Fox McCloud ended up in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie

Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto has explained how Fox McCloud made it into The Super Mario Galaxy Movie.

Up until a few days ago, no one could have expected that the character would be appearing. Despite the confirmation of other Nintendo cameos, adding Fox in took many by surprise.

According to Miyamoto, as shared by Forbes, Illumination came up with the idea. Miyamoto quickly came around to it since he’s the creator of Star Fox and “wanted to see what it would be like” as the film takes place in space. It also sounds like others within Nintendo were on board with Fox in the movie as well.

According to Miyamoto:

“When I got the proposal from Chris about including Star Fox, in general, from Nintendo’s perspective, we tend to avoid mixing IPs, except for the Pikmin cameo. With that said, though, as the creator of Star Fox and this movie taking place in space, I felt that I wanted to see that. I wanted to see what it would be like, but I also felt that there may be significant resistance internally about that idea, so after I got this proposal, I contacted the necessary parties involved and started my lobbying activity here at Nintendo. However, I was surprised to find that a lot of people saw a lot of potential with it and were really excited to see what would come out of this.”

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie can be seen in theaters now. One film we probably won’t be seeing soon is Super Smash Bros. – Miyamoto commented on why that won’t be happening any time soon here.