Sonic The Hedgehog Movie Will Race To Theaters in 2019

It'll either be comical like the games' stories are these days, or if they're dead serious about making something decent, something in the vain of Satam.

I'm guessing a rehash of the "Hedgehog and friends in our world" plot of Sonic X........and a lot of other movies.

Bout time they confirmed an actual day for 2019, now to wait for Cast Confirmations that they’ll hopefully do throughout this year. It’s no real surprise that this Sonic Movie is releasing nearly 2 weeks before Frozen 2 and around the same time as Wonder Woman 2, both of which are quite anticipated films for November 2019.

I think both the Mario and Sonic movies are great ideas. They introduce the franchises to new audiences and could cause more kids to get into gaming. So I hope they both do well (or just get more money for two companies I love).

Also, some people forget that as kids we have a much better appreciation for movies. We all liked “bad” movies when we were younger, watched them hundreds of times on repeat and still like them to this day for nostalgic reasons. It’s only when we get older that we see movies and become cynical and grumpy, so as long as kids like them then they have done their jobs.

My kids love the new Sonic Boom TV series that is still releasing new episodes so no doubt I will be seeing this with them. And I have to say, while it is definitely childish, I admittedly have laughed out loud at it.

If done correctly, it will be great. There is potential for this kind of setup but with the Sonic series, everybody and their dog has their own idea of what Sonic should do and not do

Inb4 Sonic 06 storyline

@Yasaal Groundhog Day but Sonic has to relive Sonic 06 each time

I hope this is basically Sonic ‘06 the movie. I can’t see this being legitimately good but it could be so horrible it’s good so I’m gonna cross my fingers for that.

I mean, that’s better than just bad and not even to the point of it being funny.

Sonic's got a HUGE amount of different storylines to pick from, from the Archie comics, the wildly varied game stories, to a whole host of vastly different cartoon series.
There's oodles to choose from, and I certainly hope they go in a path that's worthy of such a franchise.

@MetaRyan @Yasaal So we expecting 70% the movie to be loading screens and random falling through the floor?

Oh dear god No

It will flopped just like Sonic games.

Maybe they should go with a storyline where Sonic is old, he reminiscences his past pixelated glory days... youthful days of loops, running in circles all day long. He became senile from all the circles running, the movie can show his struggle to get back to his top form. He tried all kinds of gimmicks like car racing, but it ends with Sonic killed in a tragic car accident. He was buried in a Dreamcast. The end.

The fact that it's both live action and CGI already tells me it's gonna be crap. >.>

I hope Keanu Reeves is Sonic.

At this point all the recent games have been mostly terrible that Sonic’s image has been destroyed. It’s time Sonic is put out to rest. I don’t mean to be negative but hopefully this will be the movie that will retire him for good.

In Regina George voice (mean girls)
Stop trying to make Sonic happen! It’s never gonna happen!

@Nincompoop And the car accident will be caused by Sega of Japan themselves because of how they always screw things up for the company as a whole (especially how they have screwed over the devs for those few infamous Sonic games) ever since the 90s.

Awesome. I like Sonic, but rarely like there games. I am hoping to see some remakes come to the switch.

Hoping for the best. Tough to do with Sonic.

This is not going to go well Video Game Movies never do so theres a 80% chance this is going to be crap

Can Sega finally do what Nintendon't? Can Sonic beat Mario at the box office (and not at the Olympics)? Can a good video game movie even exist?!

Can't wait for this to crash and burn since it's gonna go fast in production

Rather than cynically dismiss this because of past experiences, I'll wait and see how this turns out and cautiously hope for the best. All one can hope is that they actually put some care and effort into it and don't make the property unrecognizable

@Shadow_Link I like to think those that own these IPs just haven't done a great job in finding film makers that actually give a damn. Comic book movies stunk in general until Bryan Singer and Sam Raimi decided they wanted to make a good comic book movies

In the words of Kyle Katarn(Star Wars: Dark Forces), "This should be interesting. Alright, I'm in." But, just because I'm in, doesn't mean I will want to watch this, merely that I'm now paying attention to the existence of this movie. I have a friend, who is a huge Sonic fan. I like Sonic, too, but "I have a bad feeling about this" - Han Solo, Luke Skywalker.

@Joeynator3000 Meh if done correctly CGI can co-exist with live action perfectly.

I feel like I'm obligated to watch this being as it seems to come out on my Birthday....

@UmbreonsPapa yeah thats good and all but most things they turn live action like video games anime ect turn out bad and even if they have good producers theirs still a chance it will be bad its best not to get hopes up

I really hope this is set in Mobius...all the humans (other than Eggman) on Sonic X bored me as a kid.

@ZurapiiYohane http://www.sonicretro.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/sonicmovie4.png

Why do I get the sinking feeling this movie will have Sonic running around New York City while mostly being about Neil Patrick Harris struggling with his job?

~Lowers expectations~ Ok, now I’m ready.

As long as it has an epic Super Sonic vs Robotnik Fleet in space sequence, I'm sold.

So it'll be an Alvin and the chipmunks type of style. Or another way of looking at it is it's Sonic Adventure the movie.

@Enigminator to be honest, that "fan film" was actually not to bad. It was cool Jaleel White was in it too.