Sonic the Hedgehog (film)
2020 film directed by Jeff Fowler
Sonic the Hedgehog is a 2020 action-adventure comedy film based on the Sonic video game series. It is the first installment in the Sonic the Hedgehog film series, it was directed by Jeff Fowler (in his feature film directorial debut), written by Pat Casey and Josh Miller, and stars James Marsden, Ben Schwartz, Tika Sumpter, Natasha Rothwell, Adam Pally, Neal McDonough, and Jim Carrey. Schwartz voices Sonic, a blue hedgehog who can run at supersonic speeds, who teams up with the town sheriff Tom Wachowski (Marsden) to stop the mad scientist Dr. Robotnik (Carrey) from taking over the world.
Development for a Sonic film began in the 1990s but did not leave the planning stage until Sony Pictures acquired the film rights in 2013. Fowler was hired in 2016. After Sony put the project in turnaround, Paramount Pictures acquired it in 2017. Most of the cast signed on by August 2018. Principal photography took place between September and October that year in Vancouver and on Vancouver Island, with a release date set for November 8, 2019. Following negative reaction to the film's first trailer, wherein Sonic appeared to look like a real hedgehog, Paramount delayed the film by three months to redesign Sonic to more resemble his look in the video games.
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