Sonic the Hedgehog sequel officially in the works

Before the Corona virus Pandemic closed theater in March, Sonic the Hedgehog raced into his February release and collected enough ticket sales to continue.

Paramount Pictures and Sega Sammy confirmed this diversity Work on the sequel is already underway on Thursday. Jeff Fowler is again a director, along with Pat Casey and Josh Miller as a screenwriter. (Editor’s note: Paramount Pictures is owned by ViacomCBS, which also publishes CNET.)

No confirmation yet as to whether Ben Schwartz will return to meet the alien blue hedgehog along with Jim Carrey as the evil Dr. Robotnik (he was left in a difficult position at the end of the first film) and James Marsden as Sonic’s best bud. Sheriff Tom Wachowski.

While Sonic made a rocky start with one arm (read: disgustedParamount and Fowler heard the feedback and delayed the film from its original November release to give animators enough time to turn Sonic into a version that remains true to the Sega video game.

The film became No. 1 recording Adaptation of video games to films with an opening of 58 million US dollars Detective Pikachu $ 54 million.

While the reviews weren’t exactly great, CNET’s Sean Keane was had a lot of fun and praised the pictures and the relationship between Tom and Sonic.

Despite the lack of confirmation of the cast, Schwartz replied to the news on Twitter:

Fowler also tweeted his excitement: “ROUND TWO WITH THE BLUE !!”