Official poster for ‘Sonic the Hedgehog’ film unveiled
THE first official poster for the ‘ Sonic the Hedgehog’ film has been unveiled.
Sega’s iconic video game character is coming to the big screen in a semi- live- action adventure from Paramount and fans have now got the first sneak peak of what the blue super- speedster will look like.
The silhouette of Sonic shows him drawn in a more realistic light than his console counterpart with muscular legs and a powerful arms and more human-like.
Ben Schwartz is voicing Sonic in the project, with Jim Carrey on- board as Dr. Robotnik and James Marsden playing Tom Wachowski.
The story will see a police officer in the rural town of Green Hills help Sonic escape from the government who is looking to capture him. Appeared in a number of animated series The movie will be helmed by first- time feature director Jeff Fowler, who is best known for the 2005 Oscar-nominated short ‘Gopher Broke’.
Neal H. Moritz is producing the CGI animation under his Original Film banner, while ‘ Deadpool’ director Tim Miller will serve as executive producer alongside Toby Ascher, and Dmitri Johnson and Dan Jevons will co-produce.
Sonic made his video game debut on the 16- bit Sega Mega Drive console, with the character created by Sega as a response to rival Nintendo’s hugely popular ‘ Super Mario Bros.’ series of platform titles.
The character has gone on to appear in a host of sequels and spin- off games and after Sega stopped making consoles he featured in titles released for Nintendo systems and other consoles.
Sonic has previously appeared in a number of animated series including 1993’s ‘Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog’ and he had cameos in Disney’s 2012 animation ‘ Wreck-It Ralph’ and 2018 sequel ‘ Ralph Breaks the Internet’.
The film is scheduled to be released in November 2019. — Relaxnews