Sonic the Hedgehog (2014 film)

Sonic the Hedgehog is a 2014 computer-animated film based on SEGA's uber-popular Sonic the Hedgehog video game series. The film's story will retell Sonic's first meetings with Tails, Knuckles, and Amy Rose; and his first encounter against Dr. Robotnik. It will be directed by Andrew Adamson. The stellar voice cast include Liam Hemsworth, Mark Strong, Ashley Greene, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Laz Alonso, Samuel L. Jackson alongside Kevin James, Teresa Palmer, Zach Galifianakis, Jonathan Pryce, and Toby Jonrs.
The film is to be out May 23, 2014 and as well presented in regular 2D, Real D 3D and IMAX featuring Dolby Surround 7.1 sound.
==Synopsis==
===Premise===
Sonic, a young blue hedgehog, lives a perfect and quiet life in his hometown of Spring Hills. However, he finds it under attack by an robot invasion. After stopping the robots, Sonic discovers they came from an maniacal evil genius—and unbeknownst to Sonic, his greatest enemy—Dr. Robotnik. When he discovers his hometown semi-destroyed and a close friend gone, Sonic sworn to get revenge. But a visit of an Watcher, Zugo the Eagle informs Sonic about seven mystical stones of power known collectively as the Chaos Emeralds. When Zugo tells him that the mastermind behind his homeland's attack is after them, Sonic realizes he must find the stones before Robotnik does. In order to stop Robotnik once and for all, Sonic embark on a vigorous quest while meeting allies, defeating threats, and trying to keep his emotions over what happened to his home in check.
===Plot===
**To read the plot, click here**
==Voice cast==
*Liam Hemsworth as Sonic the Hedgehog
*Mark Strong as Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik
*Ashley Greene as Amy Rose
*Christopher Mintz-Plasse as Miles "Tails" Prower
*Laz Alonso as Knuckles the Echidna
*Samuel L. Jackson as Zugo the Eagle, an watcher who gives Sonic a quest to find the Chaos Emeralds.
*Kevin James as Big the Cat
*Teresa Palmer as Cream the Rabbit
*Zach Galifianakis as Monty the Hedgehog, Sonic's childhood friend
*Jonathan Pryce as Elder Sage the Hedgehog, Sonic's mentor and a old friend of Sonic's father
*Toby Jones as King Avalon the Falcon, ruler of the Sky Fortress.
===Non-human voice characters===
*E-100 Alpha - One of Robotnik's creations; commander of the robot army (Computerized voice)
*E-123 Omega - Another one of Robotnik's creations; decides to escape Robotnik's hold (Computerised voice)
*Froggy - Big's pet frog
*Cho - Cream's little Chao buddy
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==Production==
TalixArts started its TalixArts Jr. studio early 2012 and officially came online in January 5, 2013. During 2012, TalixArts contracted a deal with SEGA to produce a film version of Sonic the Hedgehog based on the video game series. As soon as the deal was made, the distribution rights was sold to DreamWorks Pictures. DreamWorks chose Andrew Adamson, director of Shrek and Shrek 2, to helm this film. Talix will executive produce.
Early drafts had Robotnik/Eggman out as the main antagonist, but Talix mentioned "You can't have a Sonic film without the madman. You just can't." Eventually, Robotnik will be the film's main antagonist. Other redrafts had several main characters killed off, but due to many redrafts, most of them were kept throughout the entirety of the film, except for some few characters. Adamson mentioned, "Sonic's background as well as Tails', Knuckles', and others will be explored such in that Talix did a great job in making the reinterpretation very interesting. But stay true to the characters."
==Music==
Alan Silvestri will compose the film score and promise to use some of the scores from the video games and give them "an modern upgrade" he mentioned. The score soundtrack will be release May 20 alongside the, "Sonic the Hedgehog - The Movie Album" version.
Here are samples of the end credits music:
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===Score soundtrack===
Overall minutes: 60:79 minutes
Songs
Track number	Song 	Composer 	Minutes
1 	Sonic the Hedgehog (classic theme remix)	Alan Silvestri	1:35
2 	Spring Hills 	Alan Silvestri	4:59
3 	Invasion 	Alan Silvestri	3:30
4 	Escape 	Alan Silvestri	2:00
5 	Zugo the Eagle 	Alan Silvestri	1:35
6 	Chaos History 	Alan Silvestri	2:35
7 	Enter the Eggman 	Alan Silvestri	4:00
8 	Chaos Quest 	Alan Silvestri	3:35
9 	Tails 	Alan Silvestri	2:35
10 	Beware 	Alan Silvestri	2:30
11 	Amy and E-123 	Alan Silvestri	2:10
12 	Knuckles 	Alan Silvestri	3:35
13 	Cream and Big 	Alan Silvestri	2:35
14 	Opportunity 	Alan Silvestri	3:00
15 	Mountain Chase 	Alan Silvestri	1:35
16 	Emerald-Crossed 	Alan Silvestri	5:00
17 	Sky Kingdom 	Alan Silvestri	3:00
18 	Eggman's Cavern 	Alan Silvestri	2:35
19 	Emotional Crisis 	Alan Silvestri	3:00
20 	Death Egg 	Alan Silvestri	3:00
21 	Showdown 	Alan Silvestri	2:35
22 	End Credits 	Alan Silvestri	3:00
===Sonic the Hedgehog - The Movie Album soundtrack===
Songs
Track number	Artist 	Song
1 	Linkin Park 	Burn It Down
2 	Ali Tabatabaee & Matty Lewis from Zebrahead	His World
3 	Crush 40 	What I'm Made Of...
4 	Paul Shortino 	E.G.G.M.A.N
5 	Panic! At The Disco 	Mercenary
6 	Crush 40 	Never Turn Back
7 	30 Seconds to Mars 	Savior
8 	Thousand Foot Krutch 	War of Change
9 	Shinedown 	Enemies
10 	Fireflight 	Now
11 	No Doubt 	Gravity
12 	Crush 40 	His World (remix)
==Reception==
As the early reviews come out, most reviewers have positive feedback.
Sega and the Sonic Team gave a collective statement, "We are proud of this adaptation of our most popular mascot. The film will be great for all ages alike even fans who have played Sonic games since the early 90's would find this acceptable."
===Box Office===
Coming soon
==Sequels==
The film has spawned a series of sequels. The first sequel is called Sonic the Hedgehog: Secrets of Shadow. The second sequel is called Sonic the Hedgehog: Dangerous Edge. The third sequel is called Sonic: A Hedgehog in Time.
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