Sonic Movie Director: “It Didn’t Make Sense To Obviously Bring In The Super Sonic Thing Just Yet”

28 February, 2020 12 February, 2021

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Apparently, there was a lot of stuff in the Sonic movie that didn’t make the cut. And, according to director Jeff Fowler when he spoke with Comic Book, Super Sonic was one of them:

“It didn’t make sense to obviously bring in the Super Sonic thing just yet. I mean, there were very early versions of the script and the outlines where… because we knew that’s something that’s very important in the fan mythology, or the mythology that fans love. And Chaos Emeralds are definitely a huge part, even going back to the first game in ’91, and it was definitely something that we were kind of trying to see.

Like, ‘Does it make sense to include one of these?’ But again, just going back to what I said about the simplicity of it and just for the sake of just really starting from the simplest version and not trying to do too much, it just felt like, ‘Let’s just… let’s do the origins as Sonic and Robotnik and try to nail those characters before we potentially would open it up to some of these elements from the games that fans know and love.'”

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4 Comments

Hey this sounds fine to me. Didn’t expect to see Super Sonic before, so this is interesting to hear!

That was actually a pretty great call if you ask me. Super Sonic is best used sparingly in situations where it’s plot important. Super Sonic, plot-wise, is used as the eleventh hour final miracle shot to save the day and the plot of this movie didn’t really call for that kind of severity.

If it were me, I wouldn’t even use it for the inevitable sequel movie. I’d have it set up as a possibility in the sequel and then have it come in on the & Knuckles provided the inevitable sequel would earn a third. It would fit into a nice three-act structure and make for a nice, natural climax and finisher to a Sonic Movie Trilogy.

True, no point on bringing the famous super form that early. When/if the crew adds the chaos emeralds in the sequel or third movie then do it.

Makes sense to wait. Sonic 2 was the first title in which Sonic could become Super Sonic, and saving it for the second movie would be a nice homage to that. By the way, there’s something wrong with the CAPTCHA code. I typed it in correctly, but it said I didn’t.

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