The legendary Shigeru Miyamoto has been participating in interviews all about The Super Mario Galaxy Movie which launched in cinemas worldwide today. One of the big questions posed to Mr. Miyamoto is how the iconic Fox McCloud from the much-loved Star Fox franchise came to be in the film. Miymaoto says he got a proposal from Chris Meledandri about including Fox McCloud in the movie. Miyamioto thought about it and concluded McCloud could be a good fit seeing as the movie is based in space and after lobbying Nintendo and speaking to colleagues he was “surprised” that others felt exactly the same way.
“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.”
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