Warning: SPOILERS for Sonic the Hedgehog 3 are in play. In case you haven’t skilled the enjoyment of Shadow the Hedgehog’s silver display debut, you’ve been warned.
As a fan of a number of Sega gaming franchises, it warms my coronary heart that Sonic the Hedgehog 3 continues to carry out effectively in opposition to recent debuts on the 2025 film schedule. Formally taking the burgeoning franchise previous the $1 billion mark, the third time has positively been a appeal for Ben Schwartz’s blue blur.
That’s much more necessary to contemplate after we replicate on what we find out about Sonic the Hedgehog 4, with a latest replace slating the image for a March 19, 2027 launch date. That seems like an indication {that a} fundamental framework is in place for the story, and after reflecting much more on Sonic the Hedgehog 3’s ending, I’ve extra confidence that’s the case. In actual fact, I believe my principle on the subsequent story to be advised has gotten stronger due to proof that features some idea artwork that’s hit the web.
Contemplate this your remaining probability to keep away from spoilers, as we’re gonna go quick into the potential Future!
Sonic The Hedgehog 4 Is Most likely Going To Adapt Sonic CD As Half Of Its Story
This in all probability doesn’t come as a lot of a shock to the massive time Sega fanatics on the market, however I’m going to say it anyway as a result of it sounds cool. Primarily based on what we’ve seen within the post-credits scene for Sonic 3, I believe we’re going to be sonic booming into the story of 1993’s Sonic CD.
For starters, that sport is the origin level of not solely Amy Rose, but in addition the villainous Metallic Sonic – each of whom appeared within the transient, however badass sequence the place Sonic (Ben Schwartz) is saved by his admirer. However extra importantly, as I used to be reminded in my latest interview with Sonic the Hedgehog 3 co-writers Pat Casey and Josh Miller, these dudes are severe followers of this lore.
So Sonic CD felt like a logical conclusion to leap to, particularly with Casey sharing the next needs with CinemaBlend:
We have been eager to get Amy Rose. Everybody is aware of that the little women and girls of the world are anxious to see Amy Rose in there. We needed to get her in, and there was severe discussions of like, ’Is she actually part of the plot of Sonic 3? And in the end we realized that there simply type of wasn’t sufficient room to do her justice and to do Shadow justice.
Co-writer Josh Miller confirmed that on this identical interview, mainly admitting that since he and Mr. Casey had been already making an attempt to do proper by Shadow and Gerald Robotnik’s tales, there was no room for a correct introduction to Amy. Very similar to the ending to Sonic the Hedgehog 2, the franchise co-writers took the second to plant a seed meant to yield nice fruit (and impressed superstar voice casting) sooner or later.
To steal a quote from among the best SNL sketches ever, which coincidentally options Jim Carrey, this sounds good… however discuss is reasonable. Which is the place I start to current the compelling proof to you, the viewers, within the type of some rad-looking idea artwork.
Sonic 3’s Amy Rose Look Seems to be A Lot Totally different In Idea Artwork
Just lately, a handful of items exhibiting idea artwork for the most recent Sonic the Hedgehog film had been lately launched onto the web. You’ll have to go to the basis tweet to see the entire set, however there are two photos from Tacit Signal Studios’s works on show that actually stick out.
Proven beneath, within the second spherical of pictures, is Exhibit A – artwork that particulars Amy Rose taking up Metallic Sonic in a a lot completely different venue:
Gone are the foggy woods of New York State, and of their place is an apocalyptic-looking setting with a crimson sky. Sonic CD gamers will acknowledge this, with out query, as a Unhealthy Future – greater than seemingly impressed by the Stardust Speedway stage. For the uninitiated, that Sega CD journey has our heroic hedgehog being given the flexibility to journey by way of time in both course, with the choice of a “Good” or “Unhealthy” Future being out there.
As if Amy and Metallic Sonic’s presence wasn’t sufficient of an indicator, there’s one other piece of artwork in that first grouping that you must have a look at. It’s exhausting to overlook, simply search for the slide the place Dr. Ivo Robotnik (Jim Carrey) seems to be like he’s on prime of the world.
Potential Time Journey Might Make Something Doable In Sonic The Hedgehog 4
Keep in mind how we thought Ivo had died, simply when Jim Carrey’s wonderful Sonic 3 return noticed him going again on these retirement claims? Properly, it seems to be like there could also be one other Sonic the Hedgehog 4 entice door that was constructed into the idea artwork proven right here. Returning to the idea of a “Unhealthy Future” stage, it seems that Sonic could have met Amy in a post-apocalyptic panorama the place Dr. Ivo Robotnik is something however fundamental.
What’s worse, Metallic Sonic is serving by his aspect on this disastrous wanting future. So not solely may we’ve got much more Jim Carrey performances all through his character’s timeline, that metallic menace would possibly assist make all of it attainable. Enable me to share a clip with you during which a fan gave us a have a look at what this might imply for Sonic the Hedgehog 4:
Image a thousand of these coming at you at evening… or in the course of the day… or any level within the time stream, actually! If the door to temporal shenanigans is open, Metallic Sonic may disrupt the timeline of occasions in the entire earlier Sonic motion pictures, aiding Robotnik at an earlier level of his journey into insanity.
To not point out, if Pat Casey and Josh Miller needed to get actually cheeky with this plot gadget, they may use it to depict one thing everybody would concern. And that’s… a world the place Ugly Sonic’s design was by no means modified in Sonic the Hedgehog!
Sonic The Hedgehog 3 Remaining Put up Credit Scenes Have been Truly Modified
Time to again my very own name as soon as once more, as by now persons are in all probability asking, “Hey Mike, isn’t there all the time idea artwork that reveals discarded ideas from a serious film?” To which I’d reply, “After all there’s! Why do you suppose I nonetheless revisit the unique artwork for the villain’s lair in No Time To Die?”
Nevertheless, I did handle to debate this matter additional with Sonic the Hedgehog 3’s co-writers, because it was revealed that there have been some alterations made in how issues had been imagined to play out. Here is what CinemaBlend discovered, courtesy of Josh Miller:
Properly that we won’t discuss, as a result of it is likely to be story components that can be in a sequel. It was simply [that] extra was revealed, and a few barely various things concerned. … It was all the time gonna be Amy Rose. Amy Rose was all the time exhibiting as much as save Sonic from one thing, however the one thing advanced.
Let’s tie the threads collectively, lets? Considered one of Sonic the Hedgehog 3’s fan pleasing moments has given us the doorway to Amy Rose, Metallic Sonic and a bunch of time journey chaos! Because of the idea artwork proven above, it seems to be like these themes had been examined, could have even been filmed, and ultimately had been altered to go away room for future developments.
Of us, if you happen to’re not sharing Ben Schwartz’s pleasure for Amy’s Sonic 4 potential, then I don’t know what to let you know. And if you happen to’re not thrilled/scared by a military of Metallic Sonics serving to convey a number of Jim Carrey variants into the combination, I’m very completely satisfied you’ve learn to the tip! Now return up there and have a look at the idea artwork a pair extra occasions. Belief me, it helps.
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 remains to be in theaters, however you’ll be able to completely lease or buy the flick on PVOD as effectively. For these ready for the subscription streaming possibility, in addition to viewers members wanting to absorb the total Sonic story, a Paramount+ subscription can be key to each of these prospects.
On the time of this writing, we don’t know when Sonic 3 will hit its presumed platform. But when the identical mannequin that utilized to A Quiet Place: Day One is in play, that ought to occur earlier than the bodily launch date of April fifteenth.