Just one day after the surprise reveal that the Super Mario Galaxy movie would be bringing Fox McCloud—of Star Fox fame—to the big screen for reasons unknown, we’ve now learned who’s playing him, and it’s only getting weirder than the “Donald Glover is Yoshi” moment.
This morning, actor Glen Powell confirmed that he is the one bringing Fox McCloud to the big screen for the Super Mario Galaxy Movie, via a very cute video in which he is actually cosplaying as Fox McCloud.
More specifically, imagine if the success of the ’90s Mario movie somehow led to a Star Fox adaptation—just in time for Star Fox 64—but because we’re still in that era of video game adaptation where people can’t quite trust the source material still, Fox and all his friends are humans instead of anthropomorphic animals, but still made to look vaguely like their gaming counterparts. The hair, the cosplay being surprisingly solid but also still kind of oddly retro, it all fits that kind of vision. But it is 2026! And here we are, with Glen Powell’s Fox McCloud in a Mario movie.
Suffice to say, this all makes it certainly seem like Fox is going to have a bigger role than simply being a cameo queen. You don’t give a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it easter egg character a standalone poster, and you also probably don’t cast one of Hollywood’s most popular leading men of the past couple of years as them, either. Is the Super Mario Galaxy movie really setting up some kind of Nintendo cinematic universe that’s going to climax in, well… some kind of melee? Or some kind of brawl? Or some kind of… well, it doesn’t work with Smash Bros. Ultimate. But you get what we mean.
Glen Powell is Fox McCloud. Anything is possible.
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