Columbia Pictures reportedly working on ‘dark, edgy’ Sonic the Hedgehog movie

[Valigarmander]

Uhhh, yeah.

Hollywood insider website The Tracking Board is reporting today that a big-budget Sonic the Hedgehog film is currently in production over at movie studio Columbia Pictures.

According to the site, the movie will be a “dark, edgy version skewed towards older audiences,” and will be a mixture of live-action and CG animation. (I’m picturing a project done in a similar fashion to films such as Garfield or Alvin and the Chipmunks, just obviously with a much different overall tone.) With how the Sonic series has evolved over time, and the introduction of far more human characters to the world, this isn’t as surprising a direction as it may originally seem.

However, it does bring up at least one interesting question instantly: will Doctor. Eggman be real or CG? If they do go the live-action route for him, then I can’t help but think back to a certain fan-created poster that imagined Danny DeVito in the role.

Sonic is no stranger to the world of entertainment, and this isn’t even the first official Sonic movie to be produced—of course, the other was a direct-to-video anime release developed by well-known Japanese animation house Studio Pierrot. This will no doubt be a project far grander in scope, and one that—to be honest—is a little surprising to me. I mean, there’s been talk of plenty of videogame franchises going Hollywood, but a serious take on Sonic is one I never could have predicted. And yet, at the same time, it also makes perfect sense, given how popular a character Sega’s blue hedgehog is both inside and outside of the games community.

Speaking of Sega, The Tracking Board reports that Sonic’s developer is joining up with Original Films to finance the project, with Neal Moritz and Toby Ascher producing. There’s also a supposed shortlist of writers for the Sonic the Hedgehog movie, including Wernick & Reese (Monsters Inc., Zombieland), David Rerenbaum (The Spiderwick Chronicles, Elf), Phil Johnston (Wreck-It Ralph), and the pick I’d personally go with, Brad Bird (Incredibles, The Iron Giant).

[X-3]

Where's that damn fourth chaos emerald, bitch?

[CaptHayfever]

This time, Shadow actually needs the gun.

And remember, "I'm-a Tails, number one!"

[X-3]

Sonic is an ordinary hedgehog, serving law enforcement in the city of Station Square. However, after investigating too deeply into the city's underworld's "Chaos Emerald" drug trade, Knuckles (king of the underworld) conspires with corrupt police chief Eggman and corrupt mayor Biolizard to have Sonic's family murdered, and the hedgehog framed for the crime. Now Sonic and new-found partner Tails must escape execution, expose the underworld's control on the city, and get revenge. They only have 12 hours before the conspirators pull off something big though, so they've gotta go fast.

[Apiary Tazy]

I have a bad feeling about this.

[Calamity Panfan]

should just make the movie about knuckles

i mean dude doesn't even chuckle

[Random User]

[QUOTE="metal boxes METAL BOXES, post: 1453119, member: 29448"]should just make the movie about knuckles

i mean dude doesn't even chuckle[/QUOTE]
He'd rather flex his muscles.

[b l a n k]

First Angry Birds, then Sly, and now Sonic, too? Man, Nintendo must see this as very, very tempting.

Wait, it's based on a kids' game but aimed at adults? Yeah, good idea, because that worked so well for Mario's movie.

#sarcasm

[ZeldaGirl]

Wasn't that season 1 of the series?

[LOOT]

careful ZG Satam fans are very paranoid and will brood angrily if you mock their show

[I REALLY HATE POKEMON!]

Sonic wasn't just for kids, it had an "everybody" appeal.

That said, I don't know how this can work but I will watch.

Where's my Star Fox movie, dammit.

[Calamity Panfan]

[QUOTE="Loot, post: 1453139, member: 21459"]careful ZG Satam fans are very paranoid and will brood angrily if you mock their show[/QUOTE]

AoStH master race

[Deepfake]

dark and edgy you say

[Scarecrow]

Oh man

[LOOT]

^^

[Apiary Tazy]

If it's a horror movie, than I quit.

[Apollo the Just]

i question a lot of decisions that the sonic team has made and this is definitely not an exception

Still not as dumb as werehog, which I still refuse to acknowledge actually happened.

[Deepfake]

[QUOTE="CuccoLady, post: 1453367, member: 30977"]i question a lot of decisions that the sonic team has made and this is definitely not an exception

Still not as dumb as werehog, which I still refuse to acknowledge actually happened.[/QUOTE]
I can answer all of your questions with one answer: They never knew what they were doing in the first place.