Paramount Pictures developing Sonic the Hedgehog movie

[terry78]

You get the occasional diamond in the rough like Feige.

 

[Oliver1986]

You know the same way Venom felt like an early-mid 2000s FOX superhero movie, Sonic feels like a 90s film. In a bad way

It totally does.

 

[KillerMcQueen]

Hollywood execs are notoriously clueless when it comes to fandom based IPs, even in the age of Marvel raking in billions of dollars. If it were as simple as "They had to know how fans would react," we wouldn't have so many blunders. A lot of them really are just that out of touch.

Yeah, higher ups often have some seriously weird ideas about what will and will not work in adaptations of these kinds of properties, the Mario movie in general happened, an Assassin's Creed movie almost entirely set in present day happened, Deadpool in Wolverine Origins happened, etc. Sometimes stupid decisions really are just stupid decisions and not some elaborate marketing stunt.

 

[Detective Conan]

It is kinda crazy, isn't it? Has this ever happened before? Has a fandom been so vocal that it affected development of a major motion picture before?

Well the only other instance of that happening that I can think of was the fan backlash to the news that "Victor Von Doom'' was being changed into “Victor Van Damme” for Fan4stic which caused the filmmakers to backpedal and change it back to the original 616 name. Though that’s really small compared to this.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

Well the only other instance of that happening that I can think of was the fan backlash to the news that "Victor Von Doom'' was being changed into “Victor Van Damme” for Fan4stic which caused the filmmakers to backpedal and change it back to the original 616 name. Though that’s really small compared to this.

Wasn't the rumor a Dumaschev?

 

[Detective Conan]

Wasn't the rumor a Dumaschev?

Thanks for the correction. You’re right but it wasn’t a rumor it was 100% confirmed by Tobey Kebbell(the actor who plays Doom in Fan4stic):

He’s Victor Domashev, not Victor Von Doom in our story. And I’m sure I’ll be sent to jail for telling you that. The Doom in ours—I’m a programmer. Very anti-social programmer. And on blogging sites I’m “Doom”.

I do believe during reshoots they changed it back to the original 616 name.

 

[I Am The Knight]

I remember the thing where Doom was a blogger and his online name was...Doom.

 

[InvisibleWoman]

I remember the thing where Doom was a blogger and his online name was...Doom.

Wow... just... WOW.

 

[Detective Conan]

I remember the thing where Doom was a blogger and his online name was...Doom.

I always kind of wondered if that creative decision was made because it was supposed to serve as some half-baked meta commentary or a jab at the Internet bloggers who covered the film or something, lol. Making the main villian of your film a anti-social nerdy blogger who lives in the basement seems a bit too suspect for it not to be a condescending jab of some kind to the stereotype of many have about people into nerdy stuff. Perhaps I’m reading too much into it....

 

[Loden Greatstorm]

Just remembered Sonic's release date was January in Australia. At least now it will be a worldwide release.

 

[Lencho01]

I wonder if this was the plan from the beginning. Release fake date and fake Sonic design.

Have a couple of pics get released, people get talking (angry)

Release the trailer with same ugly/fake design, because they're still working on the regular original design, it just wasn't trailer ready though, more people get talking about Sonic, more people get angry.

Director comes out and says, not to worry, we are redesigning Sonic, but have to move back the date. Wink wink.

Everyone calms down, everyone now says, bless the director, and Sonic team, they listen to us, we'll give this a shot now.

Mission accomplished, they got everyone to talk about Sonic, and right now, it's in a positive way.

IDK, maybe I'm reading too much into this. Lol.

Nah.

 

[I Am The Knight]

I always kind of wondered if that creative decision was made because it was supposed to serve as some half-baked meta commentary or a jab at the Internet bloggers who covered the film or something, lol. Making the main villian of your film a anti-social nerdy blogger who lives in the basement seems a bit too suspect for it not to be a condescending jab of some kind to the stereotype of many have about people into nerdy stuff. Perhaps I’m reading too much into it....

Wouldn't shock me. I'm sure there's a number of execs who hate their audience

 

[Spider-Aziz]

Nah.

Short and concise, I like this answer.

 

[Gold Samurai]

I wonder if this was the plan from the beginning. Release fake date and fake Sonic design.

What kind of studio would purposely do that? That's insane.

Who would intentionally sabotage a multi million dollar movie?

 

[MadVillainy]

What kind of studio would purposely do that? That's insane.

Who would intentionally sabotage a multi million dollar movie?

Disney paid the SFX designs to purposely screw up the design. It's obvious

 

[Lily Adler]

Disney paid the SFX designs to purposely screw up the design. It's obvious

Disney paid for the Twitter bots who posed as fans and paid the YouTubers to bash the film.

 

[MadVillainy]

Disney paid for the Twitter bots who posed as fans and paid the YouTubers to bash the film.

Only the vocal minority doesn't believe this and they're living in a ****ing dream world

 

[Lily Adler]

We're all in Uncle Walt's pocket book!

 

[Spider-Aziz]

Disney paid the SFX designs to purposely screw up the design. It's obvious

Disney paid for the Twitter bots who posed as fans and paid the YouTubers to bash the film.

Hail Hydra Disney

 

[terry78]

Is there a Walt Disney was a Nazi joke in there somewhere?

 

[Spider-Aziz]

Was not my intention.

 

[CJ]

What a disaster this is turning out to be. I remember myself and CJ waiting days, months, years to see the movie design and it has all come crashing down.

Yeah, but it will all be worth it in the end. I have Faith that Fowler can pull this off. He's shown immense humility admitting that the design wasn't perfect. I think he's very committed to the project & wants it to be the best it can be.

Rumor going around is that Tyson Hesse (artist for Sonic comics, did the opening movie for Sonic Mania, and is the guy responsible for Sonic Mania Adventures on YouTube) did the drawing Fowler posted on twitter the other day. Could he be the character designer for Sonic's new look? If so, this movie is in VERY good hands.

 

[Loden Greatstorm]

Yeah, but it will all be worth it in the end. I have Faith that Fowler can pull this off. He's shown immense humility admitting that the design wasn't perfect. I think he's very committed to the project & wants it to be the best it can be.

Rumor going around is that Tyson Hesse (artist for Sonic comics, did the opening movie for Sonic Mania, and is the guy responsible for Sonic Mania Adventures on YouTube) did the drawing Fowler posted on twitter the other day. Could he be the character designer for Sonic's new look? If so, this movie is in VERY good hands.

Could you please post some of his art?

 

[CJ]

Could you please post some of his art?

Sure.

First, Here is a special variant cover he did for Sonic Universe #75

He also did Sonic Mega Drive for Archie Comics, along with Sonic Mega Drive: The Next Level.

Here is a series of shorts called 'Sonic Mania Adventures' Tyson directed with the help of Neko productions.

Spoiler

Spoiler

(Part 6 was my favorite) Next, is Team Sonic Racing: Overdrive, a recent short series based off the game of the same title.

Spoiler

 

[InvisibleWoman]

This ^ is so good.

At some point Sonic became a little TOO stylised. He had almost too much edge and lost the "roundness" he had in his debut. This seems like a nice middle ground between cool and cute.