Well, there we have it: the Sonic the Hedgehog movie has been delayed to February 2020 following the severe backlash to the character design of everyone's favourite speedy, blue mascot.
Director Jeff Fowler took to Twitter to announce the delay, which sees the film pushed back four months from its original late 2019 release date. Sonic will now speed into cinemas on 14th February of next year - perfect for a valentine date.
The tweet also comes with a hashtag that calls out the VFX artists working on the film, who were a point of contention for many when the initial design was revealed. Fans were worried that the stresses of crunch and overtime would hit the team hard if the original 2019 date was stuck to, but this pushback thankfully alleviates those fears.
Are you happy about the delay? Who are you taking to catch Sonic on Valentines Day? Whizz into the comments below.
[source twitter.com]
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God will never forgive us.
Big respect to a studio actually taking fan feedback seriously and altering their plans so drastically.
If Sonic doesn't look horrifying come February, I'll probably go see it just to support this sort of move.
The fact that there's a cartoonish, gloved hand holding that sign gives me hope that the movie Sonic will be at least passable.
Nooooo keep the horrific design. Now it's just going to be a boring bad movie instead of a hilarious trainwreck.
@Ralizah theyre setting a bad precedent. Trust me on this. Fans will never be happy no matter what. The moment they’re allowed to dictate these things is when we’ll see more delays due to online backlash. No matter what they do to this film it’ll stink and that’s a fact. A delayed, polished turd remains just that. They’re now just wasting more time and money.
@Ralizah do you truly believe a better character design will improve the movie on the whole? please don't be so easily impressed unless you like throwing your money away and supporting mediocrity. other than a few chuckles from jim carrey, i don't think this movie will offer most people much of anything other than regret for taking up their time.
@AhmadSumadi agreed. the movie is a dumpster fire with or without the design change. why don't people realize this? maybe it proves just how superficial some people are in how they value fluff over substance. paramount deserves ZERO respect or credit for how they threw this trash movie together in the first place. they are not deserving of praise, let alone our hard earned money. the only adaptation of recent years i can think of that treated the source material quite well, was battle angel alita.
Dammit. For a second there I misread 'delayed until February' as 'has been buried in the desert with ET games'.
Even with a delay and revamped design, people will probably hate this movie regardless.
A. It's a video game movie.
B. It has Sonic.
There's probably already more articles on the way from every website under the sun, just chomping at the bit to rip it a new one.
The filmmakers should have just let it ride, used the design we saw in the trailer, then found a bunker to hide in during release week while the various detonations from the critics and fan community shook the landscape.
It’s getting delayed, but it will probably still suck though.
Gotta love the negativity.
No, we can't appreciate their effort to improve. That would be asking too much of internet people.
@Frigate the way I see it, there are plenty of positive people. They just don't spend much (if any) time commenting online. So, I think there is hope after all.
"Who are you taking to catch Sonic on Valentines Day?"
Three people. 'Me', 'Myself' and 'I' 😔
Gotta watch that 'Myself' doesn't hog all the popcorn, though
@Porco have you seen the movie?
Somebody better check on that kid on YouTube who rants about Sonic fan-fricks whose “fantasies will never be quenched.” He might have had an aneurysm over this.
I really didn't care how Sonic looked. Watching it for Jim Carrey alone.
Glad they're changing the design but it's probably still gonna stink.
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