Grab a Chili Dog: Sonic the Hedgehog Movie Announced

[MartyMcFly]

For millions of us '80s babies, that sound immediately brings to mind the library of excellent 16-bit games that were featured on the Sega Genesis console, led first and foremost by Sega's trademark mascot: SONIC THE HEDGEHOG. Since the character's 1991 debut, Sonic's popped up in over 50(!!!) games since (not counting compilations), a handful of comic series, and as a Jaleel White-voiced animated character for TV. The character has generated over $1 billion for Sega, and still remains one of the most iconic entities in the video game world. Now, Sony, Sega, and Neal H. Moritz are going to try to do what Sonic's Nintendo counterpart, Mario, failed so miserably at: translating into a major motion picture.



SONIC the movie is going to be a live-action/CGI hybrid, and is apparently sticking close to the games' central story about the super-fast hedgehog and his quest to regain the Chaos Emeralds from Dr. "Eggman" Robotnik. Along the way he has to deal with the evil doctor's evil robotic animals, his dangerous (yet impractically designed) vehicles, and, if we're lucky, pinball bumpers.



The cool thing about Sonic that kept the franchise afloat amidst a sea of massively-popular Mario entries was the sense of speed the games had, even in their initial 16-bit incarnations. Sonic (as well as his companions Tails and Knuckles) zipped through the inventive, sprited stages with a velocity that made the games the A/V equivalent of drinking Jolt Cola and running circles around your block. If the dude who made THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS and 21 JUMP STREET into hugely-profitable franchises can infuse the appropriate peppy energy into this flick, there's a chance that it will be one of the oh-so-rare video game adaptations that actually replicates the joys of playing the game itself.



Or it could be THE SMURFS. Time will tell.

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Could be bad..or could be

 

[Ed MOTHEREFFING G]

SONIC the movie is going to be a live-action/CGI hybrid

*track1's the thread*

 

[MikelArteta]

dont tell me real people and sonic like a garfield cgi crap

 

[MartyMcFly]

*track1's the thread*

dont tell me real people and sonic like a garfield cgi crap

And that's my one issue with it. I'd just do a full CGI movie and call it a day

 

[Doctor Doom]

 

[Sypress]

SONIC the movie is going to be a live-action/CGI hybrid

 

[MartyMcFly]

I'm trying my hardest not to pre hate this thing as the Internet is prone to do but you nikkas are making it hard

 

[TKOK]

SONIC the movie is going to be a live-action/CGI hybrid

 

[STAN JONES]

i swear the first thing i thought to myself when i read the thread title was "this better not be a live action movie"

 

[Sypress]

 

[MartyMcFly]

The only dope thing about that was Jaleel White's voice

I don't see how you do Mobius as live action. I mean how do you do Robotnik (yeah I don't say eggman) as a real person? Who plays that role? This could be so dope if they go with the storyline from the saturday morning cartoon but they probably won't

 

[Notorious 1 E.Y.E.]

This better be like the cartoon. .... the dark one nut the goofy one
(Both were dope)
I'm not Gonna see this of its some cgi sonic with real people

 

[Notorious 1 E.Y.E.]

fukk I just seen it's going to be a live action
fukk that






They should get urkel to do the voice

 

[ManBearPig]

fukk a movie. what about Sonic Adventure 3? Knuckles was so fun to play with in the first one even tho he had only 5 stages

 

[The_King_of_Everything]

If they incorporate the song from the og movie