Glen Powell is a huge Fox McCloud fan, wants a Star Fox movie

Glen Powell landing the role of Fox McCloud in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie was no happy accident.

Believe it or not, Powell is a massive Star Fox fan. Illumination CEO Chris Meledandri recently revealed to Forbes that the actor reached out after The Super Mario Bros. Movie and spoke about his passion for the character.

Powell actually wants to be involved with a Star Fox movie. While that has yet to happen, he did end up securing the role of Fox in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie.

Meledandri said:

“When we were working on the first movie, we began to get phone calls from actors. They started communicating their enthusiasm. After the first movie was done, there were two phone calls that came from actors expressing incredible conviction and passion about being involved with Nintendo, and one of them was from Glen Powell. He explained that we had to understand how deeply he loved the character of Fox McCloud. His dream was one day to be part of a Star Fox movie. I’m listening to this going, ‘he has no idea that Miyamoto-san and I are talking about Star Fox being in this new movie,’ and Glen is expressing this passion for this.

What happened was that after we spoke about it, we had decided we wanted Star Fox to appear in this new movie as a surprise. When I called Glen back, I said, ‘Look, I want you to have a conversation, but it has to be completely secret, you cannot talk it to anyone’, as no one knew this character would be so close to this movie. On top of that, we felt that there was a Glen Powell kind of attitude to the character, and he feels perfectly suited to that role. It was one of those gifts.”

For those wondering who the other actor is that Meledandri referred to, that would be Donald Glover. Glover wanted to be involved with a Nintendo movie in any way possible – eventually that led to him playing Yoshi.

Also on the topic of Star Fox, Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto has spoken about how Fox McCloud ended up in the film. We have that information here.