After months of ready, theory-crafting, getting hyped over casting bulletins, recognizing worldwide advertisements within the wild, and surviving off of shoe teasers, we lastly have the primary trailer for Sonic the Hedgehog 3, full with Keanu Reeves because the blue blur’s rival Shadow the Hedgehog.
The trailer exhibits Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles begrudgingly teaming up with Physician Robotnik to cease Shadow, who’s proven terrorizing a metropolis. The staff remarks that he’s essentially the most highly effective foe they’ve ever confronted, and we see him completely pulverize the trio. It’s unclear at this level if Shadow will staff up with Robotnik (even quickly) as he does within the video games, or if the film will begin with him already at odds with the physician.
One of many huge reveals is that Gerald Robotnik, the ol’ Egghead’s grandfather and the creator of Shadow, makes an look on the very finish, additionally performed by Robotnik actor Jim Carrey.
Take a look at the trailer beneath:
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is about to debut in theaters on December 20. It jumps off the second movie’s post-credits cliffhanger, which exhibits Shadow waking up in a secret facility, having been saved in cryostasis for over 50 years. That’s par for the course for the character and matches his backstory from his debut in Sonic Journey 2. Sonic 3 isn’t a 1:1 adaptation of the Dreamcast recreation, however is clearly borrowing some components from it. Alyla Browne (who performed the younger Furiosa within the early stretch of this 12 months’s Fury Street prequel) performs Maria Robotnik, a key determine in Shadow’s origin and a serious character within the occasions of Sonic Journey 2, so it’s clear the film is drawing heavy inspiration from the 2001 platformer.
Reeves and Browne are making their collection debuts with Sonic the Hedgehog 3, however returning forged members embody Ben Schwartz because the titular speedy hedgehog, Colleen O’Shaughnessey reprising her function as Tails each from the earlier two films and the video video games, and Idris Elba as Knuckles. Hopefully it’s higher than the spin-off TV present the character acquired earlier this 12 months from which he was conspicuously absent for half the present. Jim Carrey can be popping out of his temporary retirement to play Physician Robotnik once more, although the character has notably placed on weight this time round in step with how the mad scientist appears within the video games. With the bald head and the lengthy mustache, the transformation is now full. Let’s simply hope the entire film isn’t simply wall-to-wall fats jokes.
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 will wrap up the Yr of Shadow, a year-long celebration of Sonic’s rival, which additionally features a remaster of Sonic Generations with a new Shadow Generations recreation that revisits the character’s historical past, set to launch on October 25. It’s been a superb 12 months for Shadow followers who haven’t had a lot to sit up for since Sega began sidelining the hedgehog in 2006.
