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Sonic The Hedgehog director promises the character will be redesigned before movie’s release

May 9th, 2019 by Marc Comments

It’s probably fair to say that when the trailer for the Sonic The Hedgehog movie dropped last week the response was less than enthusiastic… not because the movie looked bad (well, it doesn’t look good) but because Sonic looks horrendous.

The design has little resemblance to the iconic character we’ve known and loved for 30-years and the fans kicked back.

But thankfully the director of the movie, Jeff Fowler has been listening.

Taking to Twitter, he wrote (tweet below): “Thank you for the support. And the criticism. The message is loud and clear… you aren’t happy with the design & you want changes. It’s going to happen. Everyone at Paramount & Sega are fully committed to making this character the BEST he can be…”

Encouraging words and it’s nice to know the studio is listening… how will it effect the movie? We don’t know but we certainly appreciate the sentiment.

SONIC THE HEDGEHOG is a live-action adventure comedy based on the global blockbuster video game franchise from Sega that centres on the infamously brash bright blue hedgehog. The film follows the (mis)adventures of Sonic as he navigates the complexities of life on Earth with his newfound – human – best friend Tom Wachowski (James Marsden). Sonic and Tom join forces to try and stop the villainous Dr. Robotnik (Jim Carrey) from capturing Sonic and using his immense powers for world domination. The film also stars Tika Sumpter and Ben Schwartz as the voice of Sonic.

Marc is a self-confessed nerd. Ever since seeing Star Wars for the first time around 1979 he’s been an unapologetic fan of the Wars and still believes, with Clone Wars and now Underworld, we are yet to see the best Star Wars. He’s a dad of two who now doesn’t have the time (or money) to collect the amount of toys, comics, movies and books he once did, much to the relief of his long-suffering wife. In the real world he’s a graphic designer. He started Following the Nerd because he was tired of searching a million sites every day for all the best news that he loves and decided to create one place where you can go to get the whole lot. Secretly he longs to be sitting in the cockpit of his YT-1300 Corellian Transport ship with his co-pilot Chewie, roaming the universe, waiting for his next big adventure, but feels just at home watching cartoons with his kids….