#sonic the heddgehog movie

[mythoflight]

Tinfoil hat theory: The Sonic we’ve seen in the movie promotional material was never the actual design in all/most of the movie.

This is almost certainly just me trying so hard to believe they wouldn’t actually screw up Sonic’s design *that bad,* but a part of me thinks this could actually be true.

Part of me believes that in the movie, or even most of the movie, how Sonic will actually look is much closer to the design we know and love rather than the drowned rat gremlin we’ve been shown in the posters/trailer. I’ve thought (hoped) this for a while but this tweet is what makes me think it might actually be possible. I think that the controversy over Sonic’s design is a tool for free marketing, and Paramount may have given us this awful design as a way to stir up the drama and start a conversation. I’ve heard this movie talked about in nearly every news platform in some way, and brought up even by friends and family that know almost nothing about Sonic, so if this is the case it seems to be working.

The first reason I started thinking about this was at that first “movie trailer”/poster reveal from late 2018 where all we got to see was Sonic’s silhouette, and then NO OTHER OFFICIAL INFORMATION ever since then. It caused a pretty big stir in fan circles and just kept everyone guessing and very concerned about Sonic’s potential design. Now that the trailer has been released there has been a ton of buzz about the film everywhere, and all Paramount had to do was upload the trailer to YouTube at no cost.

The other reason I think this could be possible is that I think they may have done something very similar with Eggman’s design. From the trailer it seems to me as if Eggman descends into becoming and looking more and more Eggman-like as the movie goes on. For example, he looks just like Jim Carrey in a black lab coat and a small mustache when he’s first shown, but a teaser after the trailer ends shows him bald with a large frizzy mustache and goggles as he’s often seen in other Sonic media. But the day before the trailer released, we were given an image closer to the initial look. This lead fans to believe that Eggman would not be very true to design, only to be disproven at the end of the trailer the next day.

Lastly, we have that tweet that came out today. I admittedly don’t know much about the movie/animation industry, but I would think an overhaul of the CGI main character’s design, even minor ones, would be incredibly costly and time consuming, and I don’t know how feasible it would be to change all that by November.

So, I wonder if whatever they’re “changing” his design to is actually how Sonic has always looked throughout the movie’s production, and all of this design controversy has just been done for marketing. Or maybe they’ll do something along the lines of what they seem to be doing with Eggman; maybe he’ll briefly look like this horrible version we’ve been given in the film for whatever reason, but then he’ll be transformed into the Sonic we know.

And it’s not like movie studios are strangers to purposely editing footage in trailers to mislead audience’s expectations slightly. Off the top of my head I can think of a couple Marvel movies that have purposely had trailers with nonexistent scenes or even edited scenes that look completely different from the actual movie, just to avoid giving away details in the movie itself.

I’d love to hear what you think; again this may just all be wishful thinking, haha.

[aawesomepenguin]

Now Mario fans will know the feeling Sonic fans go through when the voice actor for the main character gets switched around.

[aawesomepenguin]

The original design for Sonic the Heddgehog for the 2020 Sonic the Hedgehog movie returned in the Disney+ movie “Chip and Dale: The Rescue Rangers”, sporting a beer belly, red eyes and an even more pronounced snot, the character is named  “Ugly Sonic”, with the lore being that Hollywood abandoned him after they hired another better looking actor to replace him.

[rollflasher]

Here's a leak of the movie.

Now Mario fans will know the feeling Sonic fans go through when the voice actor for the main character gets switched around.