#SONIC HEDGEHOG CHARACTERS SERIES#

The two bond, with Tom relating to Sonic's desire for friends. Tom hesitantly agrees to help Sonic and the two flee when confronted by Robotnik, who falsely labels Tom a domestic terrorist. Tom discovers Sonic in his shed and tranquilizes him, causing Sonic to accidentally drop his bag of rings through a portal to the Transamerica Pyramid's tower roof, upon reading the writing on Tom's shirt, before passing out. Realizing his cover was blown, Sonic reluctantly plans to leave Earth for a different planet only containing mushrooms and fungi. Department of Defense reluctantly enlists the services of eccentric roboticist and scientific genius Dr. One night, Sonic grows upset over his loneliness while playing baseball alone and, while running at high speeds, accidentally triggers an electromagnetic pulse that causes a massive power outage across the Pacific Northwest. He idolizes the local sheriff Tom Wachowski and his wife Maddie, unaware the pair are planning to relocate to San Francisco as Tom plans to accept a job with the SFPD. Ten years later, a teenage Sonic enjoys a secret life in a cavern under the fictional rural town of Green Hills, Montana, but longs to make friends. She uses one to send him to Earth while she stays behind to hold off the echidnas, leaving Sonic behind. His guardian, an anthropomorphic owl named Longclaw, gives him a bag of rings that open portals to other planets. On a distant planet, Sonic, a young anthropomorphic blue hedgehog who can run at supersonic speed, is unexpectedly attacked by an echidna tribe. A spin-off miniseries Knuckles starring Idris Elba is scheduled to premiere on Paramount+ in early 2024. It set the record for the biggest opening weekend for a video game film in the United States and Canada and grossed $319.7 million worldwide, becoming the sixth highest-grossing film of 2020, and was the highest-grossing video game film adaptation of all time in North America until it was surpassed by its sequel Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022).Ī third film, Sonic the Hedgehog 3, is scheduled for release in 2024. Sonic the Hedgehog premiered at the Paramount Pictures studio lot on January 25, 2020, before its theatrical release in the United States on February 14, and received generally mixed reviews from critics. Following the negative reaction to the first trailer's reveal of Sonic's appearance in April 2019, Paramount delayed the film release by three months to redesign Sonic.

Most of the cast signed on by August 2018, and principal filming took place between September and October that year in Vancouver and on Vancouver Island. After Sony put the project in turnaround, Paramount Pictures acquired it in 2017. Robotnik (Carrey).ĭevelopment for a Sonic film began in the 1990s but did not leave the planning stage until Sony Pictures acquired the rights in 2013. He teams up with a town sheriff, Tom Wachowski (Marsden), to stop the mad scientist Dr. The film follows Sonic (voiced by Schwartz), a blue anthropomorphic hedgehog who can run at supersonic speeds.

Directed by Jeff Fowler (in his feature directorial debut) and written by Pat Casey and Josh Miller, it stars Ben Schwartz as the voice of Sonic the Hedgehog, alongside James Marsden, Jim Carrey, Natasha Rothwell, Adam Pally, Lee Majdoub, Neal McDonough, and Tika Sumpter.

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Sonic the Hedgehog is a 2020 action-adventure comedy film based on the video game series published by Sega.

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