During Sonic Revolution’s online expo this past weekend, Sonic the Hedgehog 3 Director Jeff Fowler answered a question from viewers about Shadow’s introduction into the movie series, to which he responded to by focusing on Keanu Reeves’ approach to voicing the character- claiming that the John Wick and The Matrix star had “done his homework” for the role.
“It’s so awesome that we got Keanu Reeves to voice the character, and he was so fantastic to work with. I think he thinks the character is awesome. I think he definitely understood what we were going for and was very excited to kinda do his version of it, but he, like all the cast, really wants to get it right, really cares.”
“He would give us so many different versions of line readings and just wanna keep going. He was not just sort of showing up and just reading the script into a microphone. Like he really wanted to create a very fan-faithful version of the character. He did research. In our first meeting, he very clearly had gone and done his homework, which was awesome.”
“And so, I just can’t say enough wonderful things about Keanu and what he brought to the character, and just the experience of making this movie.”
Sonic fans were able to hear some of Reeves’ Shadow in the official trailer (seen below) for Sonic the Hedgehog 3, but they’ll also be able to hear more of it when a movie-inspired level pack including Reeves’ voice is added to the Digital Deluxe Edition of Sonic X Shadow Generations on December 12.
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 will premiere in the United States on December 20, 2024.
Does he mean… the chaos emeralds?
If you had told me a decade ago we would have Keanu Reeves voicing shadow of the hedgehog, I would have laughed: look how far we’ve come homies 😎
A decade ago he was first John wick 😳
I have the utmost confidence that Keanu will get the character right, but the true question is: will the writers get him right?
Based on the trailer, signs so far point to “yes”.
December 20th, get here faster!
Personally i am looking forward to watch nosferatu and all adults should do that.
I’m so excited to see the 3rd Sonic movie, the first 2 movies was beyond my expectations.
Shadow is one character who SHOULDN’T be making corny pop culture references, especially given his backstory.