During the month of June news was circulating the Canadian-American actor and comedian, Jim Carrey, would take on the role of the evil Dr. Robotnik in Paramount Pictures’ Sonic The Hedgehog movie due out at some point next year.
At the time it was just a rumour, but it’s since been confirmed by Deadline Hollywood with a direct confirmation from the man himself when asked about the video game to movie adaption at a recent event:
It will be live-action.
As previously noted, Sonic with the help of James Marsden will be out to stop Carrey as Eggman, who is presumably hell-bent on achieving world domination.
Given the role, this seems like a fitting casting choice. Carrey has previously played a number of borderline psychotic characters over the years – including starring in the 1994 film, The Mask, and playing The Riddler in the 1995 movie, Batman Forever.
Are you excited about this movie? How do you feel about the casting of Jim Carrey as Doctor Eggman? Tell us below.
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But Why?
Carrey is perfect for the role! He can do the maniacal cackle and physical comedy to make it work. A bit like Christopher Loyd did in Roger Rabbit. Good choice! Now lets hope it's not like SMB: The Movie...
Pingas?
At least they got a crazy person to play the part!
I really think he will play egg man spot on but I'm still worried about the rest of the film fingers crossed
Talking about Carrey, if you never saw "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind", my goodness, watch that movie as soon as you can... From my perspective, the best movie with Jim Carrey ever and one of my all time favorite movie. Just awesome. ^^
My interest in this project just went from 0 to 100 in about a half a second.
@Cobalt Agreed! And Sunshine is so different than his other stuff. Also, the Truman Show is genius.
@invictus4000
Absolutely agree with you !
You know what they say...LEMME SHOW YOU SOMETHING!
I like Carey as an actor, although I don’t think I’ve seen anything from him since Eternal Sunshine. Maybe this will mark a comeback for him.
This movie is either going to be really bad or so bad that it’s actually good.
I loved the mask it was hilarious so this is a good choice on paramount pictures part except the fact that it’s live action and not animated kinda scares me
"I HATE THAT HEDGEHOG!"
Wait. sonic? In live action?
They are pulling a Netflix (aka casting a once upon a time big star that due several unclear reasons has been placed in the freezer by Hollywood) This could go right.
The rumors? This was confirmed weeks ago. There was never even time for a rumor.
How do you even
I hope Peter Dinklage plays Sonic and Robotnik bends over and talks out of his butt
As great of a fit Carrey is, I feel like Bryan Cranston would’ve been a far better pick for the role. The cunning, mischievous voice, the mustache, the shape of his head, his comedic background- he was born to play Dr. Eggman.
Carrey, in his comedic roles, just seems too sporadic to play such a calculated, deliberate villain
@invictus4000
Had the exact opposite effect on me.
This movie is going to be so horrible. It'll be good for a laugh.
Dr. Robotnik will have 7 fingers then....
Totally gonna have to watch this now.
I imagine he’ll need a lot of prosthetics before he looks like Eggman.
@AlternateButtons I guess we’ll need a 4kids version of the movie for Jim Carrey then.
I can’t look at him the same after what happened to that poor woman.
"Snooping as usual, eh? ALLLLLLLRIGHTY THEN!"
So eggman will be making weird faces all the time?
I'm fine with Jim Carrey...movie will still suck though. lol
I don't know about the rest of the movie, but I'm looking forward to seeing Jim Carrey as Robotnik!
This film is guaranteed to be great
@Leecpfc I think Carrey suffered far more from that episode than you might be giving him credit for.
This is going to be a train wreck. Hard to watch, but grimly entertaining nonetheless.
I'm strangely interested in how this movie will play out and I think it's because of the cast.
@Mrtoad wonder how the fat suit will be
I hate to be that guy but Jim Carrey is not American, he's just Canadian.
Why oh why do movies of video games keep getting made? They never turn out good.
I hope he will be called Dr Robotnik and not Eggman. I have hated that change to the franchise ever since Sonic Adventure. Yes, it was his original name in Japan but I don't see anyone pushing for Bowser's name to be changed to Koopa just because that has his Japanese name.
@Trikeboy And some times, dare I say, the Japanese version can adopt the western names? What a concept!
Jim Carrey can almost make this movie work.
I'm confident Carey will nail Eggman convincingly as he's a good character actor. Don't forget to add Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events and The Grinch, and even though the movies didn't KILL at the box office, I thought he handled the characters well. As far as the movie itself, I'm not going into this expecting this to be movie of the year. I just need it to be watchable and not groan inducing like SMB, Double Dragon, and Street Fighter. It'll be interesting to see how well both this and Detective Pikachu perform
@Roam85 Pingas.
In all seriousness, though, how the hell is this gonna work? Carey isn't fat or old-ish - two of Robotnik's most famous qualities - and it's not going to be a simple voiceover role like in Horton 2008.
Is he going to be in a fat suit? "Digitally enhanced?" Are we even getting something REMOTELY close to what Sega's resident mad scientist looks like?
Mark my words: whether this is a proper classic or a glorious trainwreck, it's certainly gonna be memorable.
@TipsySonic I agree. it's almost like it can't be good...
I'd love to see Carrey back on screen in a role as some insane bad guy.
Eggman is age appropriate for him by now as well.
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