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May 24, 2019

Sonic The Hedgehog Movie Delayed Into Valentine’s Day

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The path to theaters for Sonic the Hedgehog has felt more like a pinball world than a smooth Green Hill Zone. The first trailer for the film was released late last month, and between Jim Carrey’s classically wacky schtick and the use of “Gangsta’s Paradise” it stepped right out of 1995. All that was missing was some bad CGI….and then the movie’s original Sonic model moved into frame, confirming that element. In the face of massive blowback following the release of that trailer, Jeff Fowler, the picture’s director, tweeted “The message is loud and clear. You aren’t happy with the design & you want changes. It’s going to happen. Everyone at Paramount & Sega are fully committed to making this character the BEST he can be.” The announcement was applauded, but brought up concerns about overworking its staff of CGI effects artists to meet the November deadline. Paramount will NOT be taking this route, instead electing to delay the picture. Fowler tweeted out this image Friday morning, alongside the hashtag

May 3, 2019

Movie Sonic Will Be Getting A Redesign

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Remember that strange, gawky-looking Sonic the Hedgehog that appeared in a trailer for his own feature film two days ago? Uhh, just forget about that! They were just kidding, ha ha! The REAL design will be unveiled LATER, yeah, that’s it! Come back later! Ha ha! In the face of massive blowback following the official release of Sonic the Hedgehog’s first movie trailer, the makers of the film have done an about-face on that face, with its separated eyeballs and its human incisors. Jeff Fowler, the picture’s director, tweeted “The message is loud and clear. You aren’t happy with the design & you want changes. It’s going to happen. Everyone at Paramount & Sega are fully committed to making this character the BEST he can be.” If Sega and Paramount are only just now realizing there’s a problem, they have only themselves to blame. This design was leaked months ago, first as a shadow and then as a promotional image, and it didn’t receive a positive response on the social

April 30, 2019

Behold The Trailer For The Sonic Movie You Always Wanted

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We’ve been hearing the rumors for months. Sega and Paramount were working together on a Sonic movie. It wouldn’t be animated, it would be live-action with a “realistic” CG Sonic. Said CG Sonic would be designed completely differently from how he looks in the games. Jim Carrey would play Robotnik/Eggman, in his trademark manner. “Gangsta’s Paradise” would be used in the trailer. It all sounded like a joke, but as we found out this morning, none of the rumors were incorrect. https://youtu.be/FvvZaBf9QQI One day Sonic races so fast that he creates a Sonic Boom which knocks out power to the entire Pacific Northwest (hey, that hits close to home). In response, the government enlists the assistance of Carrey Robotnik, who charges after Sonic with Badniks and Swatbots. Sonic and his new cop pal (played by Jason Marsden) must outrace them all! That’s all well and good, but the execution feels….a little off? Reminds us of the 1993 Mario Bros movie, to be honest. Paramount’s Sonic The Hedgehog races into theaters

June 30, 2018

Jim Carrey Cast As Dr. Robotnik In Sonic Movie

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We weren’t worried about the Sonic movie until now. Deadline reports a new casting decision: Jim Carrey has been given the job of Dr. Eggman, AKA Dr. Robotnik for you 90s kids. For those not in the know, Sega has latched themselves to Paramount Knuckles Chaotix style and the pair are creating Sonic’s first big screen appearance, with a due date of late next year. Little is known about the plot, but it’s described as a live-action/animated hybrid, which gives us a 50/50 chance that Eggman will either be a CGI character with Carrey’s voice (best case scenario) or we’ll bear witness to Carrey making his crazy faces in a big fat egg-shaped suit (worst case scenario). The first time Robotnik spoke, he had two voice actors: Jim Cummings gave him a menacing growl in Sonic SatAM, while Long John Baldry gave voice to the goofier version on Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog. Mike Pollock played him on 4Kids’ Sonic X. The Sonic movie is being written by Pat Casey

December 2, 2016

Director Switches From Deadpool To Sonic

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Time will tell whether THIS move will pay off, but director Tim Miller has stepped down from his previous project, Deadpool 2, to direct a Sonic the Hedgehog movie instead. Miller directed the original Deadpool film. The Sonic movie was announced earlier this year and is a live-action-CG hybrid, showing real people interacting with computer-generated blue hedgehogs. Miller is collaborating with Jeff Fowler, a partner at his production company who will be making his directing debut with Sonic. Patrick Casey and Josh Miller are penning the script, and if you know who they are you have a good memory, because they created the very-short-lived, underpromoted Golan the Insatiable for Fox. Sony Pictures is paying for it and Marza Animation Planet is computing the animation frames (they are an animation company owned by Sega Sammy, who also owns Sonic). Neal H. Moritz (several Fast and Furious movies) is serving as producer, as well as Takeshi Ito and Mie Onishi, members of Marza. Miller and Toby Ascher are executive producers and Dmitri