This time last year, things did not look good for the Sonic the Hedgehog movie. The first trailer for Paramount’s adaptation of Sega’s video game franchise had just been released, and the backlash was severe.
It was late April of 2019 – which feels like an aeon ago now – that we got our first proper look at the ‘live-action’ version of the beloved blue hedgehog, and it revealed that certain design decisions had led to him sporting human teeth, for reasons that are still fairly mystifying. To put it bluntly: it did not go down well, and a hasty redesign was soon on the cards.
“Thank you for the support. And the criticism,” said Sonic the Hedgehog director Jeff Fowler , which must have taken some seriously swallowed pride at the time. “The message is loud and clear… you aren’t happy with the design & you want changes. It’s going to happen.
It was late April of 2019 – which feels like an aeon ago now – that we got our first proper look at the ‘live-action’ version of the beloved blue hedgehog, and it revealed that certain design decisions had led to him sporting human teeth, for reasons that are still fairly mystifying. To put it bluntly: it did not go down well, and a hasty redesign was soon on the cards.
“Thank you for the support. And the criticism,” said Sonic the Hedgehog director Jeff Fowler , which must have taken some seriously swallowed pride at the time. “The message is loud and clear… you aren’t happy with the design & you want changes. It’s going to happen.
- 5/29/2020
- by Kirsten Howard
- Den of Geek
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