After backlash, Sonic the Hedgehog director vows to alter character’s design

The web kicked up an enormous stink over the previous few days after seeing the primary trailer for Paramount Footage’ live-action Sonic the Hedgehog movie, and with excellent explanation why – the cherished Sega mascot’s persona design within the film is a blue nightmare.

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From his ghastly human tooth to his oddly buff legs and small toes, the movie model of the rapid online game hedgehog slightly resembles the nature everyone knows and prefer (let’s be fair, ‘love’ is somewhat robust for Sonic). 

Neatly, pat yourselves at the again, web, as a result of you will have received – Paramount and the movie’s director, Jeff Fowler, have heard your considerations and feature vowed to change the nature’s design in time for the movie’s unlock. 

Fowler took to Twitter to guarantee fanatics that he and the studio will do no matter it takes to ensure the film model of Sonic does justice to the nature.

Whilst that is undeniably a win for fanatics and can certainly lead to a greater movie ultimately, we do really feel sorry for the movie’s animators, who’ll most likely need to paintings their butts off in an effort to get Sonic the Hedgehog in a position in time for its November eight unlock. That mentioned, a minimum of Sonic may not seem like this anymore…

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