Fall Out Boy offer Glen Powell a job after viral Saturday Night Live performance
A teenage Glen Powell made an hilarious spoof music video for Fall Out Boy's Sugar, We're Goin Down.
Fall Out Boy have offered Glen Powell the chance to direct their next music video after his viral performance on Saturday Night Live.
The Running Man actor, 37, guest hosted the late-night sketch show at the weekend, and during his opening monologue he revealed he used to direct some films when he was a teenager.
He said: “When I was a teen I directed some of my own films.
They were a little experimental, emotionally nuanced. I was watching a lot of French New Wave at the time. I think you’ll see the influence.”
A clip of him wearing a sailor's hat while lip-syncing to the noughties emo hit Sugar, We're Goin Down by Fall Out Boy was then played.
After it went viral, Fall Out Boy asked the Hollywood star on X: "want to direct the next fob music video @glenpowell?"
In the meantime, fans can catch Powell starring as Ben Richards in Edgar Wright's new take on The Running Man - based on the 1982 Stephen King tome.
Edgar was fascinated with the story – which was previously adapted for the big screen in a movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1987 – after reading it as a teenager and put what he had "visualised" in his mind in the movie.
The 51-year-old filmmaker told HeyUGuys.com: "When I read it as a teenager, and this is before I'd seen the other adaptation, I just sort of visualised it in my head and the things that I visualised in my head never really went away and they are exactly the same images that are in the movie."
