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21 Nov 2024 By Eva Ara�jo (Web correspondent)
Jeff Fowler, the director for all Sonic movie used to work as a character animator and of the characters he did was Shadow.
Shadow was �genetically engineered with alien DNA by Prof. Gerald Robotnik. He was another speedster, but he also came with teleportation powers and some fun gadgets, like a motorcycle and even handguns.�
The character became so popular they made a full solo game based on him.
Now, making this movies, he saw on the character of Shadow a great opportunity:
�Edginess' is maybe not the right word, but there was a new element tonally that just suddenly made the Sonic world feel a little bit more exciting, a little bit more dangerous. I think that's exactly what Shadow has done for this film.I feel like this film...it's got so much. It's everything we've done in the previous films but even more. �
Ben Schwartz who voices Sonic also says this movie is more impressive:
�The CG is even more impressive. Everything is pumped up for this one."
Producer Toby Ascher talks about �us having a lot of Avengers moments, which I love, but it's very much that everything is bigger in this movie and more impressive."
According to the article, the third movie �delivers the major beats of that character's story, even if some of them are a bit more heavy than Sonic's own origin. No spoilers, but there's an emotional core to Shadow's journey that involves Gerald's granddaughter Maria (played in the movie by Alyla Browne).�
Jeff Fowler explains: "That's the challenge of these films. It's always to take what has come before in terms of the video games and the comics and all that. How do we take the essence of what the fans love and merge it with this movie treatment that we created? We certainly are very respectful about what fans expect to see and what they love about the character. We're also very aware of the times and the right way to handle that kind of imagery in a family film. I think we really ended in a great place. I think fans will watch this film and really appreciate Shadow and Maria. A lot of care and a lot of love has gone into telling Shadow's story and giving fans the best movie version of the character imaginable."
Also caring about the character is the actor who plays him, giving him his voice, Keanu Reeves, as the director said: "He had really done his homework.�
But, to tell Shadow story, they need to bring the man responsible for the creation of it Robotnik father.
So �their hope from conception was for Carrey to play Shadow's creator on top of his duties as Ivo.� And Jeff is aware that "It was such a big ask." The actor �would have twice the amount of work since they couldn't possibly film both performances on the same days.�
The make up for Gerald took three hours every sngle time but Jim was game for it. Jeff said: �I don't know what we would've done. I don't even want to think about this."
At first, they focused on drawing parallels between these two mad scientists, "not just with bald heads and giant mustaches, but also in their behavior and their attitude. But then, just from a storytelling standpoint, it needed to go in some ways to create the right sort of conflict for the film. I don't want to give anything away, but it was really fun to plot that, to come up with all those interactions and all the different story needs that had to happen. Jim was just such a great partner in designing all of that."
Other elements will be added in the movie but fans are also curious to see which character will be teased at the end but naturally, Fowler won�t say anything:
"It's fun to see the fan debates online about who's coming up next, who's going to be teased at the end of the film," he says. "We have a lot of the same conversations. We've all got our favorites on the filmmaking side, and we're all making great cases for 'it should be this one or that one.' It is fun to keep that anticipation. This movie is no different in terms of teasing new characters."
The article shared a few exclusive photos of the movie.
Check them out:
This looks so good� We are so excited
We at JCO will keep you updated as more news come.
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