The Sonic saga aims to resemble the Avengers

The producer explains how the Sonic films and series are designed as events to be discovered as a family, each episode of which brings together characters from the games, introduced with detail.

With 700 million dollars in two films, Sonic may not be as profitable as a Iron Man, but he still has the shoulders to become the standard-bearer of a brand new franchise for Paramount. A film and television franchise “Avengers level” even hopes its producer.

This is also confirmed this winter with the box office of the third filmstill directed by Jeff Fowler, in which Jim Carrey plays two rolesand which, boosted by enthusiastic reviews, has amassed $210 million worldwide since its release just before Christmas.

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Last April, Toby Ascher, one of the producers behind the films Sonic the Hedgehogconfided in an interview to Paste Magazinesee in the very long term with the blue hedgehog derived from SEGA games, at the time when the series Knuckles was coming to Paramount+. We share his words again when TFX reschedules the original filmthis Friday at 9:05 p.m.

“We're really excited about the idea of ​​expanding our characters and this universe to television. Particularly because it gives us a platform to really explore side characters…”

So, the producer's idea is that the films Sonic to come become moments “Assemble!”

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“With the arrival of Shadow in Sonic 3 and some important things we want to put in place, the Sonic franchise in cinema will now consist of events like Avengers, he added. They will be big, exciting stories that feature lots of different characters.”

With this in mind, derived series like Knuckles will introduce new heroes from the games, and then bring them back to the big screen: “Television allows us to delve deeper into some of the more secondary characters, it gives us time to develop them in cool ways.”

Knuckleswith the voice of Idris Elba, therefore arrived on Paramount+ on April 26, 2024, and the first series derived from SonicVerse worked well enough for the adventure to continue. Shadow, another hedgehog supersonic from the games who is voiced by Keanu Reeves, appeared in the last cinematographic opus opposite the little hero played by Ben Schwartz, and we should logically find them all in No. 4, already set for 2027.

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