More Sonic Movie Origins Uncovered?

Our affiliates at Sonic Paradise this week uncovered a small but significant link to the upcoming Sonic movie in development, currently slated for 2018.

The team over in Spain found a LinkedIn profile for one Cullen Thomas Gallagher. Gallagher currently is the CEO of Reely, but before he went into crowdsourced video, he did this as part of his previous job, which he left in 2015:

Key member of the team that created pitch materials, partnered with Original film, secured film rights from Sega, animation from Marza, and gained distribution from Sony Pictures for forthcoming Sonic the Hedgehog live action/CGI film.

That job was as Senior VP and Producer for dj2 Entertainment, a Santa Monica based company. On their projects page is the blue hedgehog we know and love, with little explanation behind why he’s there. They even have a small blurb on their new page from 2014 announcing the Sonic film.

To be sure, dj2 has some heavy hitting partners, including Warner Brothers, Legendary Pictures, Sony, Nerdist, and Machinima.com. The team has prior experience with games, having worked on material for Alone in the Dark and Skulls of the Shogun.

To what extent dj2 will be involved beyond deal making is still unknown. But it’s another piece of the still unclear Sonic movie puzzle that we now know about as we await the Sonic film’s arrival.