“Sonic the Hedgehog” opens on November 8,2019.
The first Sonic the Hedgehog game came out in 1991 and he quickly became one of the most popular and recognizable video game icons of all-time, but unlike his Nintendo counterpart Mario, there has never been a Sonic movie.
There was supposed to be one in the mid-1990s, but the project was canceled (considering the treatment begins with, “A 12-year old boy named Josh Pinski [reads] out his school paper on a test pilot named Sonic who was killed in a plane explosion while attempting to break speed barriers,” maybe that was for the best). In 2014, Sony Pictures announced a live-action/CGI hybrid based on the blazing-fast Sega character, and this time, it’s actually happening, with Ben Schwartz, a.
