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Here’s something I was looking forward to, Pat Casey, one of the screenwriters of “Sonic the hedgehog” was part of an episode of “Hey Fandom!” in which he was asked several questions about the development of the film not only by the host, but by several fans as well! Really worth the watch!

Here are some interesting things I wanted to share though.

- There was both Superman and The Little Mermaid inspiration.

- When writing Sonic they did look at some of the media (shows, comics, etc) but they chose to focus on the first few games. They wanted to make things in a way you could see the movie as the prequel of your favourite Sonic media.

- The Sonic movie short they used to pitch the movie was made with leftover budget from Tim Miller’s show “Love, Death and Robots”

- Most of the baseball scene was fully animated with the old design. He thinks fans would have grown to like it had they seen more of it.

- The line “They don’t need time off to get DRUNK and put the boat on water” was Jim Carrey’s idea.

- He does confirm the existence of the lizard warrior on an earlier version of the film that would serve as a second villain. The studio opted to keep things simple.

- They knew from the start Sonic would have a human co-star. They considered a group of tech gifted teens or a secret agent before settling with Tom. They wanted it to be someone Sonic would look up to and see as a hero.

- They put them against Robotnik and the military because he feels Sonic should be a little anti-establishment.

- The Olive Garden reference wasn’t product placement and they didn’t get paid for it, it was just a joke. It somehow found it’s way into earlier in the film while Pat wasn’t on set.

- The Zillow thing was though, it was added at the very last second.

- Originally the townsfolk were going to help in the final fight, but it was deemed too absurd.

- The mushroom world is both a reference to Mushroom Hill and a jab at Mario.

- There used to be a biger chili dog reference, with Tom offering Sonic one at the bar when he started feeling sad. He ate his and Tom’s chili dog in two seconds.

He sure reacted fast! Fufufufu look at that! he sure looks excited

We know you want it on the lips ( we shippers want that too) but let save it for later

Adgafhahszmlhfdljgdljtxoruslfl !!!!!!!!!! MY SHIPPER HEART!!!!!

KYAAAAAAAAAAAA WHAT A NICE SURPRISE!! IM LOVIN THIS

Whats the ship name for lily x felix can someone tell me please

Look at lucas, this is the face of a man who was paid well. LOOK HOW HAPPY HE IS,HE IS EVEN HUMMING

There’s seriously nothing funnier to me than imagining Tom as an stressed dad trying to cope with his son’s extremely dangerous life.

I know a lot of people are concerned about a Sonic movie sequel abandoning Tom and Maddie in favor of being more faithful to the games. I’m in the same boat, I sincerely hope that they don’t do this!! I’d like to be hopeful and think that they’ll take advantage of their existence within the movie timeline. Ironically, I actually think Tom and Maddie could play a big part in shifting the focus of the movie so that we could see more of Sonic’s world and meet more of the characters from it. (Keep in mind this is coming from someone who’s a bit more of a casual Sonic fan, there are a lot of things I don’t know about the franchise. This is just from my personal observations)

Hear me out. Say the sequel takes place a while after the events of the first movie, maybe several months. Sonic’s powers are shown to be tied to his emotions. These powers of his could continue to get stronger as time goes on (or perhaps just more frequent, like randomly stirring up at innocuous things like scary movies) and his struggle to contain them would start to be something that concerns him. Tails suddenly showing up one day would probably reinforce this internal conflict.

In regards to Tom and Maddie, though: Sonic likely doesn’t want to put them in danger, on account of what happened to Longclaw. He doesn’t want to lose them. I feel that a particularly smart villain could use this against him. Maybe not Robotnik, since his whole schtick is that he doesn’t know the source of Sonic’s powers. I was thinking someone more like the echidna tribe (if they’re still around) or someone similar who is able to recognize his chaos energy. They could probably put an idea like “I’m a danger to the people around me” into his head and use his fear to manipulate him into thinking he’s going to get Tom and Maddie hurt or worse.

This would push Sonic to try to distance himself from them, maybe even try to cut them out of his life altogether at it’s most extreme. Hence the excuse to leave Earth. The main difference here is that this would be deliberately painted to be a bad thing, since this would be Sonic convincing himself that he’s not allowed to live a normal life with a normal family. I imagine that at least one of them would try to go after him (if it were to only be one, I imagine it would be Tom). So I imagine the central conflict would be something as follows:

Sonic has trouble controlling his powers > interprets his struggles as “I’m a danger to be around” > intentionally avoids Tom and Maddie > they reunite in the third act, teamwork makes the dream work

Turn it into a message about how it’s okay to have weaknesses and show your emotions. Reinforce that Sonic doesn’t need to be alone to be himself. Give us some more found family vibes, maybe even confirm verbally that they are a family. GIVE SONIC THE HUG HE DESERVES

Bonus: Unfinished son