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NEWS: Paramount Picks Up Sonic the Hedgehog Film Rights

Transformers movies are loathed, and the only reason they make money is because they are built on a successful brand. Sonic will never reach the popularity of Transformers, and video game adaptations (especially live-action ones) tend to be flops, the only real exception being Warcraft. Paramount is not Disney; it can't coast off of company recognition either - in fact, it has the smallest market share out of all the Six Major Studios.

It’s going to be terrible. End of story.

...Does Sonic have a lot of brand recognition outside the U.S. (excepting Japan, obviously)?

...can't we just have a good animated movie in the same style as the Sonic CD opening (and Sonic Mania trailer) rather the CG mixed live action?

...please?

I just assumed that the filmmakers and staff realized that it was probably going to turn out to be crud, and just cancelled the project, but apparently this is still being made for some reason.

It will be brilliant. Can't wait for this flawless film to reach my eyes.

Haysey wrote:

...can't we just have a good animated movie in the same style as the Sonic CD opening (and Sonic Mania trailer) rather the CG mixed live action? ...please?

Technically it's already been done, so it would be kind of redundant.

davonepresley1998 wrote:

I just assumed that the filmmakers and staff realized that it was probably going to turn out to be crud, and just cancelled the project, but apparently this is still being made for some reason.

If Hollywood figured every idea wasn't going to be successful if translated to film we'd have never got such films as Baby Geniuses, Master Of Disguise, The Golden Compass, Jupiter Ascending, etc

Sony likely figured not to go through with this after Ratchet & Clank bombed which has also imperiled the Sly Cooper film.

...Does Sonic have a lot of brand recognition outside the U.S. (excepting Japan, obviously)?

Sony likely figured not to go through with this after Ratchet & Clank bombed which has also imperiled the Sly Cooper film.

If they are loathed, why do they make so much money? I'm not saying popular or financially successful = good, in fact, I think Bayformers is sh*t and I've only watched 1 and 3 entirely, dropped the 2nd about an hour in or less and I was watching it online, and completely avoided 4 and 5. I'm never watching another Bayformers, or even a Bay-directed OR produced film ever again. But I digress, that money is coming from somewhere. A lot of people are going to watch those pieces of rubbish and all that cash can't be all, mostly, or even half, coming from people who hate them.

Pretty sure that's not a movie. In fact it was 2 ova's spliced together as such

and it's not like the studio that just successfully released The Emoji Movie is going to focus on quality.

I think this is all an attempt to have Sonic kiss a real human woman.

The Last Knight under performed commercially. It's the lowest grossing entry in the franchise. It's also the final one Bay has been involved with. Next year's movie is a Bumblebee focused spinoff from the director of Kubo and the Two Strings. Hasbro is currently developing a fully animated theatrical feature based in that universe.

According to Wiki, it made 605.4 MILLION USD. Even if that is a couple of hundred mills from the 2nd lowest grossing one, it's still a helluva lot of money that wouldn't warrant, financially speaking, Hasbro ending the Bay universe there or Michael Bay leaving the franchise regardless of the masses opinions. Besides, we've heard that bastard, Bay, say each film was his last since the 3rd. I'll believe his done when the next film is announced and even then if he's absent, it won't guarantee he wont return after that.

I heard the new animated film is self-contained and is actually inspired by G1 designs but not set in that universe.

They've already tried it once. I haven't really played anything after Sonic Adventure 2, so I'm not sure what they did with Amy over the years.

Sonic is surprisingly unpopular in Japan. It's often a question if the newer games even chart on their week of release. Sonic's a franchise that exists solely off of western sales, which explains why there's been more western animated adaptations than Japanese ones.