Sonic The Hedgehog Film Will Apparently Be “Dark And Edgy”

Tracking Board cites no source whatsoever for any of this. This is nothing but sheer rumor as-is

So it’s basically the Eddie Lebron movie?

kill me plz

Why is it that Sony is making all the video game movies?

While I like the Sonic video games (the games from before 1999) I’m uncertain if this is even a good idea. Depending on who they get to write this (if it’s even going to happen) it may go from dark and brooding to being immature, harbor some sort of fart jokes, and have some sort of questionable storyline at best that doesn’t relate to any of the franchise’s elements (sorta like how they butchered some of the past video game based movies).

Sonic was never really cut out for being dark and brooding, but as far as the franchise goes, it’s more of a futuristic yet fantasy type franchise, there are some dark elements melded in as far as the villains go but it’s more of a fun franchise centered around the main hero and his team and companions he meets along the way.

I love how the writer of the leak put “dark and edgy” and “skewed torwards older audiences” together, as though they were interchangeable, because looking at past “dark and edgy” movies, they’re NOT the same thing. In fact, today, “skewed towards older audiences” and “dark and edgy” are often so far not the same thing almost as to be antonymical.

It gets even funnier when the writer proclaims with enthusiasm that the movie will “mix” live-action and animation helping Sonic to “meld with reality”. I’m not an anti-computer-effects elitist (though I do appreciate me some hand-drawn animation), but I can’t remember any time after the age of fifteen when I saw cgi alongside live-action and felt like the animated character was actually there. Even animation that I might have been in awe of in a video game looks very out-of-place in a live-action film. It’s very clearly fake-looking, to the point where I miss the animatronic puppets from thirty years ago (I’m looking at you, George Lucas). I’ll be relieved if I’ve misread the context of “mixed live-action and animation”, and the movie is actually animated something closer to The Polar Express, or The Adventures of TinTin.

All-in-all, I have high hopes, but not high expectations for this film, especially where “dark and edgy” has previously taken the very Sonic franchise itself, and “mixed live-action and animation” hints as to how much effort (lack thereof) will be put in.

I’m gonna wait for the ratchet and clank movie before I have a real opinion on this

I’m all on board for a Sonic Movie.
I am NOT, however, okay with it being turned into a freaking Dark Knight-wannabe! I don’t want a super serious Sonic, give me action-packed cartoony Sonic!
This had better all be false.

Yeah, no, not buyin’ it. Theres gotta be more proof until you sucker me into this.

I’m thinking Eggman will be live action, which makes me wonder who’s gonna play him? These are my best picks of who I believe fits the role of Eggman:
Robert De Niro
Alec Baldwin
John Malkovich
Russell Crowe
Tommy Lee Jones

That image of the Sonic toy makes me want to throw up. Did they shove it in their asshole or something?

This sounds REALLY good…with the exception of the live action bit. I’d love for this series to finally get a little darker again like it should be, but this movie would be so much better if it was all CGI. I’m looking forward to it, anyway.

Autism.

i like the dirtiness of sonic gloves in the pic

I like Shadow the Hedgehog as the Secondary Antagonist. Transformers Director Michael Bay should do the movie.

People really shouldn’t complain about how serious the Sonic movie will be considering the fact that Sonic in american media has always been different from the japanese. How the U.S.A. handles the Sonic series is a lot different then how the Japanese handles the Sonic series.