Sonic Movie Thread - From a Disastrous Teaser/Trailer to Not That Bad a Movie; Got a Sequel

[Poe-Shen Zcela]

Damn. Hell of a way to go out, though.

It's like if Bad Robot's last act was to fix Star Wars by undoing the entire Sequel Trilogy before closing its doors for good.

 

[Jewelsmakerguy]

Damn. Hell of a way to go out, though.

It's like if Bad Robot's last act was to fix Star Wars by undoing the entire Sequel Trilogy before closing its doors for good.

It really wasn't. A former employee pretty much says their work conditions were shit- a sentiment shared across anyone who worked for MPC or their sister studios.

The VFX industry is hell incarnate and ranks up there with the Anime industry as one of the shittiest there is in the field of animation, if not shittier because they got to work on blockbusters for Hollywood, not some dumb moe or Isekai with minimal animation.

 

[Poe-Shen Zcela]

Fuck. You're not kidding:

MPC, Studio Behind 'The Lion King,' Shuts Down Vancouver Studio

Two weeks before Christmas, a major vfx shop in Vancouver has shut down.

www.cartoonbrew.com

Poor bastards got booted out for doing too much work. Lion Kong, Sonic, and more at the same time. I guess the journos and Twitterati were right about the overworked animators, not that it diminishes the result. I hope they find work quick.

 

[Jewelsmakerguy]

Fuck. You're not kidding:

MPC, Studio Behind 'The Lion King,' Shuts Down Vancouver Studio

Two weeks before Christmas, a major vfx shop in Vancouver has shut down.

www.cartoonbrew.com

Poor bastards got booted out for doing too much work. Lion Kong, Sonic, and more at the same time. I guess the journos and Twitterati were right about the overworked animators, not that it diminishes the result. I hope they find work quick.

Oh no doubt, this isn't like Sausage Party. Technicolor's got their constituency plans in play. It's just a matter of whether or not their employees will bite given the horror stories that seems to come from their walls, like how MPC Vancouver had to bail out most of its sister companies. (Hell, they weren't supposed to be on that upcoming Cats movie, but wound up working on that because their sister company Mill Film couldn't get it done). Or how they're trying to farm it all to India.

 

[vertexwindi]

Poor bastards got booted out for doing too much work. Lion Kong, Sonic, and more at the same time.

That's pretty much standard these days. It's not like the 90s anymore where ILM was the go-to studio, you got dozens of companies lining up to do visual effects and each one is easily replaceable because if you can't do it under X months on a budget of Y, another company will happily take the job instead. It's a very unsustainable industry.

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

The recent japanese trailer that just came out revealed what a young sonic looks like. (in the movie).

God could you imagine how horrible the original design would have looked like? This current one looks adorable which could only mean the original was some hellish abomination.

 

[StarkRavingMad]

God could you imagine how horrible the original design would have looked like? This current one looks adorable which could only mean the original was some hellish abomination.

Ask, and the internet shall receive:

 

[Grumbo]

They died to bring us this little munchkin.Ver archivo adjunto 1068547
The recent japanese trailer that just came out revealed what a young sonic looks like. (in the movie).
Classicfags on suicidewatch because not muh.

The rocks breaking and a GHZ sunflower?
Man, they've been bizarrely tasteful with their reference pulls. I mean, yeah, Green Hill Zone is there front and center, but the other stuff hasn't been full-on in your face 'member berries.
...in the trailers at the least.

 

[Poe-Shen Zcela]

Surprised there isn't much talk about this here.

Looks like Twitter is trying to turn Baby Yeed VS Baby Zonk into an ongoing thing:

Baby Sonic Vs. Baby Yoda: Will 'Sonic the Hedgehog' Dethrone 'The Mandalorian' King of Cute?

A Japanese trailer for the 'Sonic the Hedgehog' movie revealed Baby Sonic, so fans are already draggin Baby Yoda in a battle of the babies!

www.cheatsheet.com

The little feller's cute, but something bugs me about his tum-tum:

It's got this weird ridge or bump, like he's trying to suck in his belly and flex. I feels like it should've just been a smooth round shape, like an egg.

 

[Trombonista]

Is Junichi Kanemaru voicing Sonic in the Japanese release of the movie?

 

[Night Owl]

^Probably. He voiced the cameo in the JP dub of Wreck It Ralph too and he's been the definitive voice of Sonic for over 20 years now.

 

[Commander X]

Amazing clip released (yes, I just felt like an excuse to post this after remembering it existed recently, so sue me, etc) :

 

[Godzilla@1989]

The movie is now expected to open with $41-47 million.

‘Sonic The Hedgehog’ Could Jump As High As $47M In Opening Weekend – Box Office

Paramount’s feature adaptation of classic Sega videogame Sonic the Hedgehog will definitely open according to tracking this morning with a 4-day opening range of $41M-$47M. Males under 25 are…

www.google.com

 

[Sigma]

Looks like there's, uh, some kind of official music video. Really tells you their target audience at least

 

[Sayon]

The movie is now expected to open with $41-47 million.

‘Sonic The Hedgehog’ Could Jump As High As $47M In Opening Weekend – Box Office

Paramount’s feature adaptation of classic Sega videogame Sonic the Hedgehog will definitely open according to tracking this morning with a 4-day opening range of $41M-$47M. Males under 25 are…

www.google.com

Means nothing unless it accounts for production costs.

 

[Munchingonfish]

Looks like there's, uh, some kind of official music video. Really tells you their target audience at least
https://youtube.com/watch?v=dCuCpVPkWDY

Imagine making a Sonic movie and not having its theme song be butt rock.

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

Imagine making a Sonic movie and not having its theme song be butt rock.

I know right? They should have saved the rap theme song for the Knuckles movie.

 

[Raging Capybara]

Crush 40 is better than Metallica. This bassline is legendary:

 

[Quijibo69]

At least it knows it's target demographic:

They have them in almost every state.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

I’m probably still gonna go see it, if nothing else than to support them actually listening to people and fixing the original mistake.