Sonic the Hedgehog Live-Action/CGI Movie Targeting 2020 Release Date

[Papenbrook]

I can see it now.

This film WANTS to be a bomb that will be gone and forgotten.

Just hang in there, folks. This'll be a bumpy ride.

[FredWolfLeonardo]

I wonder if this movie will surprass the meme status of the Super Mario movie?

We'll just have to wait and see.

[AquaParade]

I’m excited for this movie!

I think it’s a mix of loving the character but having no real investment or expectation for this movie. If it’s terrible, I’ll get over it in two seconds, and be fascinated in the meantime.
If it’s good, then that’s even better.

[TigerClaw]

That image of Robotnik looks promising. Hope the Trailer shows up tomorrow.

[Autbot_Benz]

I like this movie because it triggers pappenbrook worse than anything ever has on this site and its glorious.

[drgon78]

Interesting.

[Wildcat]

He looks fine. There’s also an image of a flying vehicle. Maybe his signature hovercraft.

Spoiler:

Oh my gosh am I excited for the trailer. I knew it’d be around a month from that private showing. It didn’t make sense to make it public right after.

Being that’s there’s 2 trailers (Sonic’s and Robotnik’s) I hope they do not purposely show Robotnik’s first and make us wait longer for Sonic.

[Leo656]

I can't help it, I'm with Papen on this one. Video game movies are terrible and live action/cartoon hybrids like this one are even more terrible (Roger Rabbit being the obvious exception, but c'mon, good luck ever getting that kind of lightning in a bottle ever again). Selfishly, I'd love for this thing to tank, because if a brand name as big as Sonic ended up being a huge money-loser, then maybe studios would realize that these things are a bad idea and simply STOP trying to turn video games into movies when it never, EVER turns out well.

However... that won't happen. It's gonna do extremely well because of kids, and 40-year olds who've waited their whole lives to see a live-action Sonic movie and will dance a jig even if it's the worst thing ever, just because it's (loosely) based on something they grew up with.

$500-600 million. But I'd love to be wrong.

I don't even really care about this thing, and I doubt I'll ever even see it in my entire life despite (or perhaps because of) being a Sonic fan, but I REALLY want them to stop making video game movies before they inevitably ruin Metal Gear. I love Metal Gear to an irrational degree, but there's no way a movie based on it could be anything but terrible. The only chance we have of avoiding that, and more future tragedies to come, is if this thing tanks hard. But... it won't.

Ah well.

[Wildcat]

You don’t care but felt you needed to rant about why you hope it tanks.

Sonic aside if they just stopped making movies based on games altogether we’d never get ones that actually turn out good (that goes for a lot of things).

MK was good. I thought the Tomb Raider moves were decent but haven’t seen the newest one. Pikachu certainly looks to be really good. Have not seen every video game movie though.

My point is you don’t stop a whole category of something just because prior takes were bad. You could say that about the entire movie industry.

Yes I have waited my whole life for live action Sonic. I can remember before a movie was ever brought up that I wanted a real world Sonic movie.

If it turns out great then great. If it doesn’t that’s disappointing but it’s the first attempt. If it’s somewhere in the middle, cool. A decent movie for a first outing is perfectly fine.

My expectation is that it’s at least entertaining and done in a way that they can build on it with even more game elements if it does well enough.

[Leo656]

What can I say? I'm a Big Picture guy.

I don't care about THIS movie, but I do care about the fact that there are entirely too many bad movies already, and anything that can be done to slow that bleeding down is important. It's important for the industry... dare I say, for the world at large.

You listed the one good (or even watchable) video game movie: Mortal Kombat. And objectively it's "okay at best". It's far from perfect. One could argue it's only even "good" to fanatics. To someone who otherwise wouldn't care or know about MK, it's probably pretty bad to their eyes.

One halfway decent movie out of an entire genre of dozens upon dozens of movies? Yeah, horrible track record. People are homeless and starving; making movies like this one is actively making the world a worse place by wasting valuable resources. I can't morally condone it.

I like Sonic too, but there's much better ways to spend $200 million than by projecting nonsense like this into the world. Like, literally anything else, for example.

The failure of this movie would be a win for the greater good of all mankind. It's as simple as that.

[Papenbrook]

Sonic's budget is at $90 million. And the movie will still make exactly $0.

Other than that, I have to agree.

[Wildcat]

Leo656 - Shutting down the movie industry for just 1 year would save a ton of money. All movies in general are pretty much unnecessary. To pick specific ones just because you don’t like them isn’t fair.

I agree video game movies appeal more to the actual fans of that thing but others can still enjoy a movie on its own. I’ve enjoyed movies for franchises I’m not very invested in.

I don’t know exactly what you envision a “good” Sonic movie to be since you’re certain this is already horrible. I guess you’d stop 50% of movies solely based on the probability of turning out poorly.

[Papenbrook]

What in the fresh HELL is this....?!

[Turo602]

Wow, that was awful.

[drgon78]

I might actually see this one.

[FredWolfLeonardo]

The trailer itself was for the most part, pretty run of the mill.

Eggman was funny though, being a complete savage with that army officer.

Also, love his design at the very end, becoming bald and getting a bigger mustache.

[Candy Kappa]

I really enjoyed the trailer, sonic had a uncanny valley moment in the meow scene, which I think could have been better avoided with better eyes, they are a bit too small for him, and his proportions are a bit off, but mostly it's pretty good.

Loved Carrey, think he'll be a great campy villain (and he does turn bald)

[AquaParade]

Wow. Not only does the movie look poor, but the trailer may have been even worse. They waited over a minute and a half to attempt to show Sonic doing anything cool or exciting. Just looks bad overall, and even as someone who liked the character-design when it leaked, I think it looks pretty bad here.

Shame. Could have made some cool moments out of Sonic running around to Gamgsta’s Paradise.

[sdp]

This looks very fun, not going to be anything like the source material but it looks like it'll have fun with the concept, a buddy cop film with Sonic and Jim Carey being vintage 90s Jim Carrey just works. Everything is tongue in cheek, it's basically a "so bad it's amazing" movie.

[ZariusTwo]

'Tective Pikachu would murder this if both came out at the same time.

Digging Carrey as Waluigi though