Nintendo fans are likely spending the next few days hoarding mushrooms, 1Ups, shells and flowers – because there’s less than a week to go until The Super Mario Galaxy Movie hits cinemas. The follow-up to the ultra-successful Super Mario Bros Movie, looks to be going much bigger, nabbing its name from the beloved Nintendo Wii game – and it seems the wider Nintendo-verse is getting involved too. A new poster this week confirmed (spoiled, some might even say) that Fox McCloud, aka Star Fox – of Lylat Wars fame, to UK millennials – will be in the film. And now we know who’s playing him too.
Yes, as that Insta video handily demonstrates, the role has gone to none other than Glen Powell – fresh from The Running Man and How To Make A Killing. Though, in this clip he’s the jumping man, and all signs indicate that The Super Mario Galaxy Movie will, indeed, make a killing at the box office. He joins an already stacked cast: Chris Pratt returns as Mario, with Anya Taylor-Joy as Princess Peach, and Jack Black as Bowser. It was recently announced that Donald Glover is voicing Yoshi, with The Smashing Machine director Benny Safdie entering the fray as Bowser Jr., and Brie Larson playing Rosalina.
Start your guesses now on who else might pop up from the Nintendo properties. Will we see Kirby? Samus? Maybe even Zelda‘s Link himself, ahead of getting his own live-action film? Stay tuned, and be sure to stick around in the Galaxy credits in case it tees up a Smash Bros movie or something.
