He idolizes the local sheriff Tom Wachowski and his wife Maddie, unaware the pair are to relocate to San Francisco as Tom plans to accept a post with the SFPD. Ten years later, Sonic enjoys a secret life under the rural town of Green Hills, Montana, but longs to make friends. She uses one to send him to Earth while she stays behind to hold off the echidnas, leaving Sonic behind. His guardian, an anthropomorphic owl named Longclaw, gives him a bag of warp rings that open portals to other planets. On a distant planet, Sonic, a young anthropomorphic blue hedgehog who can run at supersonic speed, is unexpectedly attacked by an echidna tribe. A spin-off miniseries Knuckles starring Idris Elba is scheduled to be released in 2023. Sonic the Hedgehog 2 was released in 2022, while Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is scheduled for 2024. The film received mostly positive reviews from critics, who praised its action sequences, performances (particularly Marsden and Carrey's), visual effects, and Sonic’s redesign and charm, but criticized its screenplay and product placement. It set the record for the biggest opening weekend for a video game film in the United States and Canada and grossed $319 million worldwide, becoming the sixth highest-grossing film of 2020, and was the highest-grossing video game film adaptation of all time in North America until 2022, when it was surpassed by its sequel. Sonic the Hedgehog premiered at the Paramount Pictures studio lot on January 25, 2020, before being theatrically released in the United States on February 14.

Following the negative reaction to the first trailer's reveal of Sonic's appearance in April of 2019, Paramount delayed the film release by three months, taking five months to redesign Sonic in the meanwhile. Most of the cast signed on by August 2018, and principal filming took place between September and October that year in Vancouver and on Vancouver Island. After Sony put the project in turnaround, Paramount Pictures acquired it in 2017.

Robotnik (Carrey).ĭevelopment for a Sonic film began in the 1990s but did not leave the planning stage until Sony Pictures acquired the rights in 2013. He teams up with a town sheriff, Tom Wachowski (Marsden), to stop the mad scientist Dr. The film follows Sonic (voiced by Schwartz), a blue anthropomorphic hedgehog who can run at supersonic speeds. Directed by Jeff Fowler (in his feature directorial debut) and written by Pat Casey and Josh Miller, it stars Ben Schwartz as the voice of Sonic the Hedgehog, alongside James Marsden, Tika Sumpter, Natasha Rothwell, Adam Pally, Lee Majdoub, Neal McDonough, and Jim Carrey.

Sonic the Hedgehog is a 2020 action-adventure comedy film based on the video game series published by Sega.

Sonic the Hedgehog by Ken Penders