The Sonic Movie Gets Delayed Until 2020 To Get Things 'Just Right'

In an age where criticism among the higher ups is mostly rendered null and void and companies overwork employees to critical levels, this is wholly refreshing to see. Even if the movie turns out to be Michael Bay Transformers levels of cringe, I'll be giving them my money just for listening to criticism.

I was going to see this movie cause it looked okay but now I'm kind of looking forward to seeing this.

Thank goodness.

I’m glad they’re taking their time to make Sonic more presentable.

Wow, they really listened. I'll be watching this for sure.

All I can say is...thank god. Also, I really hope that the hashtag is accurate and that no visual artists die from any excessive crunch.

We did it boys.

This isn't gonna save this film. Just because Sonic is somewhat going to look better in the film, that doesn't save bad writing, sloppy storytelling, lazy humor and flimsy cinematography. I have no idea why people are celebrating this even though we all know the end result to this thing.

I can't help but laugh every time more news of this movie comes out... the trailer, the backlash, the response to the backlash and now this 😆

Not exactly the most clean entrance for Sonic, but at least their mindset isn't "gotta go fast!" As far as production is concerned 😂

All this from a guy who never liked Sonic to begin with, and will likely not see the movie either way, lol.

Transformers was decent. Too many but decent. Ninja turtles was complete trash.

Hmmm...while I'm kinda glad that this is getting more time to get sonic right. This puts less strain on the people actually doing to the work. With that being said the script is still the script. I'm sure kids will like but I'll hold judgment when it comes out.

so if we criticize there 3D Sonic games could they maybe fix those as well?

Good to hear. More time aint gonna hurt

This movie deserves my respect and my cash now.

@Bobb I imagine there is no refilming they will have to do, pretty sure it's purely going to just be redoing most of the CG work associated with Sonic.

No amount of fixing will ever make this a great film but I'm glad they are doing it for the fans especially those that grew up playing Sonic.

So it releases on Valentines Day... That makes this movie the perfect opportunity for those who want to break up with their spouse! Just go to the movie and you'll be fine

VFX? Off topic, that totally reminded me of a ‘2 Ronnies’ sketch

F U N E X ?
V F X

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6vMsCEWbd-A

Never will we see this kind of outrage when Team Sonic puts out a bad game...

@Captain_Toad Same here!

As a fan, still hoping for a fun time with the Sonic movie. Glad to see they're delaying the movie to work on it more.

Even if that trailer had the best depiction of Sonic ever, it would have still been horrible. I don't see why everyone is happy they are just changing the look. It's still a lazy "fish out of water" scenario where the popular franchise is now on Earth instead of their established location (See: Masters of the Universe, The Smurfs)

A delayed game gets better while a rushed game has consequences... A lot of times thats been applied to games, but on a game movie? This is a fresh new take we just witnessed and I look forward to seeing the results.

"A delayed movie is eventually good, a bad movie is bad forever"

Here's hoping that Sega still exists in 2020, before anyone can dare to hope that this movie will actually be released...

Ouch that sucks, they are in a rock and a hard place though. Average moviegoers won't care either way, but the sonic fanbase is going to threaten to torch everything until this is done and over with.

I won't lie despite me not liking the design, the trailer was interesting and I was looking super forward to November to see it. I'm happy they listened to criticism and that the artist have more time but I wanted to see it in November. Either way i'll watch it. I will say this though all things aside, they really did need test groups who have grown up playing games...SPECIFICALLY Sonic games old and new.

I feel like this is going to go down in history as another one of those infamous tales of cinema flops, like how John Carter was in development since the 1930s and Waterworld was, at the time, the most expensive movie ever made, only to have both movies completely bomb. And then the Sonic movie made the absurd decision to basically re-do their entire movie because a bunch of nerds on the internet complained about Sonic's eyes and teeth, only for the movie to completely bomb and lose a historic amount of money in comparison to its budget.

I hope this isn't the case, but it could very well happen.

@Bobb Forget the screenings. Think about how much money it will need to make up for the changes in the marketing.

@sixrings Yeah, Michael Bay’s movies inspired by the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is the worst thing ever. I did enjoy the first couple of Transformers movies.

@FNL Given this franchise's history, that's not out of the realm of possibility.

@RevengeFan Because at least we can live knowing kids won't be scarred from life watching his old film design. I think.

@dougphisig But what if they change the size of Sonic's eyes or his height when interacting with human characters?

I wish they had a big pair of balls on them and a brain, and just scrapped the entire thing and never have this come to screen. We don't need another failed CGI/Live Action Hybrid. Especially from a franchise that hasn't been able to poop out a good story in years. Either make a CGI or Hand-Drawn cartoon or nothing at all

Gotta fix fast! But not THAT fast

@Bobb Agreed

@hakjie11 Respect, maybe. Cash, hang onto that until we see how extensive this is.

The VFX artists were likely just doing what they were hired/instructed to make. Demote/Fire the designers and executives that made and greenlit this atrocity of a "design" because they CLEARLY need to work a little harder and get better taste.

I figured this would happen. Now all the people painting a picture of poor animators held hostage with the lives of their family hanging in the balance to make the deadline can relax.

I suspect that significant reshoots and a redesign of the Sonic character are in the works.

Ayy, maybe this will be wildly mediocre instead of a dumpster fire due to the delay. Kinda like Team Sonic Racing before it got delayed

@Sinton I only saw the first one and I didn’t hate it but referring to them as “Michael Bay’s films inspired by Ninja Turtles” is a superior burn and for that I tip my hat good sir.

Hope they cut the dumb "gotta go fast!" line, the normal Sonic design doesn't deserve that.

Wow something like this rarely happens in the movie industry! They clearly want this movie to actually be good and not meme worthy.

I don’t hold much hope.

They can’t even get the date right. There’s only 12 months! 🤦‍♂️

(I’ll get my coat...)

Good job guys, take your time on this movie.
Sonic is an iconic character same as Mario.
Reminds me of the good old console war (Sega and Nintendo)

Let the haters hate, just focus on his (sonic) design, good story, great action, and lots of humor.

I will be spending my money on this and bring my family with it, because of your choice to make it better.

I am surprised that people didn't notice that the twitter image has a gloved hand with blue arms (Sonic Boom design choice) holding the sign. GLOVED HAND! Woo!

(My Two Cents)

Like I said, it seemed like the only good news capable of mitigating the damage. Even if this doesn't undo the mess at the core of it all (and don't pretend you don't know what I mean, dear collective tarpit known as Sonic fandom), it's still best news of the day, if not the whole week.

Again, fingers crossed for the team, and definite props-where-due to Paramount for not crunching the team about the executives' ground loss. And you know what, I'm really marking this movie on my next year's cinema visit plans, my lukewarm interest in the franchise notwithstanding. For all their trouble, the least they deserve is someone in the audience who is [still] NOT [quite] a Sonic fan.

I don't know why they didn't change the look of sonic when the images first leaked months back

Is that a glove that is holding the sign?! Not a weird furred hand?? Ooohhh!

This is only a good thing. It’s nice they’re taking their time and (hopefully) not overwhelming their staff.

The script and general plot didn’t seem great but I doubt there’s much that can be done about that. I’ll be content with a passable movie for adults which won’t give children nightmares due to a freak show of a main character. Throw in cameos of Tails & Knuckles and I’ll be happy!

Kudos to Paramount execs for actually being willing to move the release date. 2 years ago, WB execs refused to move Justice League to fix the CGI (I know, there was more than that wrong with it) simply to preserve executive bonuses for hitting their release date, and we got baby-mouth Super Man.

Perfect movie choice to end a relationship on valentines.

I just want a Sonic the Movie the Game with the original Sonic Movie design.

@Malcrash so you've seen the film then? Reminds me of people who read reviews on IMDB and mindlessly trash a film without seeing and judging for themselves.

Too many people bash stuff for stupid reasons these days. I'm gonna watch it just for Jim Carrey anyway, he seems fun in this considering he was looking quite glum for a while, nice to see him acting a bit silly like he used to.

If the trailer is indicative of the film, then they have many more issues than simply redrawing one character

I'm actually really impressed with the way they are handling this. This is so much work and it's gotta be tough to tear down something you already put so much work into.

I feel kind of bad for hating it so much now, hopefully this new design is liked by people. At this point I'm more interested in the underdog tale of the vfx artists than the movie itself lol

Me when the trailer dropped: Stupidly bad, but meh.

Me when they announced the delay: Still stupidly bad.

@FlyingFoxy No, but from how the messy the production was (the turnaround where the movie had to go from Sony to Paramount made things even worse), to the people behind it (which the writers behind it do nothing but Z grade comedies), the studio handling this redesign situation and to the trailer, which is supposed to sell to the consumer what the film is, shows that it's another sleezy attempt at a kids movie.

Detective Pikachu, while flawed and weird at some parts, at least has much more positive qualities to talk about and obviously had a more competent build compared to Sonic. If you actually watch movies plenty of times, you would actually understand the quality of a film that would be considered good or bad.

Fair play to them, they’ve realised they’ve made a mistake and are working hard to correct it.

For the best, not just for the CG do over but the film was going to release veeeery close to Frozen 2. It would not of made a lot of money for a long period of time at the box office so least this way it has room to breath.

@Malcrash -or maybe you could recognize the victory here.

Most often times when directors make bad ideas, they double down on it despite it being obviously bad ideas.

This is a tale where that apparently isn't what's happening.

It's not a complete victory, but it's a small one.

This is good news and I commend all involved.

I'm glad they're listening, but they really should have gotten it right the first time. Did they want to waste their own time and money? Warner Bros. spent a year making sure Pikachu's design was perfect so that they wouldn't have to change it later and redo tons of work.

I'll give them credit, At least they want to try to get it right with Sonic. Hopefully the Movie ends up being good.

They should have just cut their losses. The character design was only one of the myriad of issues with that atrocity of a trailer. This movie isn’t getting fixed. Would have preferred the full terrible just for the curiosity of it.

@Bobb : They won't need to refilm anything. The overwhelming majority of the film would have been shot in front of a greenscreen anyway, so in the unlikely circumstance that an actor's position in a shot may need to be reframed, fixing it is as simple as (in layman's terms) clicking and dragging the actor within the frame, and considering that it is only the VFX being redone, they can compose the VFX around what has already been filmed.

I imagine that the delay is mainly to factor in redoing Sonic's animation, whereas all other warts will remain intact.

That's good. The artists and animators don't have to suffer through crunch anymore... hopefully

No one needs a reminder of that trailer... it’s still burned into my retinas!

In my day they made a CG Final Fantasy movie which had nothing to do with anything and we liked it, consarn it!

Probably not enough time to recast Jim carrey's role and rewrite the awful jokes and story

I want to think that this is all part of Sega's master plan. I mean they would have had to have known... right?

Wow. This makes me think they really believe I’m the movie, and want to give it every chance to succeed. This news gives me more confidence in the film.

Hmm, maybe they change more then just the character. Either way, I don't expect much from this movie. But we'll see.