The Sonic the Hedgehog movie has been delayed to 2020

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Coming as not much of a surprise to many, the Sonic the Hedgehog movie won't be releasing this year. Following the outpouring of criticism regarding the film's trailer and design of Sonic, the production team said they'd be redesigning the character to make him look a bit more like...Sonic. That announcement was made earlier this May, meaning the visual effects team would only have less than six months to rework the new look into the movie. That apparently turned out to not be enough time, as Jeff Fowler, the director, stated that they'd be taking a little more time to make Sonic "just right", by delaying the picture from November 8, 2019 to February 14, 2020.

It's also worth noting, the picture shown in the delay reveal has Sonic wearing his traditional white gloves, as opposed to the original movie design which instead featured him having white paws.

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So... What if after the redesign no one still likes it. And they just wasted all that time and money to please a crowd that's already hard to please to begin with.

Hard to please?

Jesus Christ the only thing people are complaining about, is the fact that their favorite videogame character, does not look like their favorite video game character.

I can't possibly blame people for this.
 
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Why not just put out a handful of designs out there and let the general public vote on which is best? With their fx team it shouldn't be that hard to do. Still have to give them props for listening to the general public not many do in the movie business especially in animation. Imagine if Goku ended up looking like this. In a matter of fact I don't even get how they thought it was a good idea in the first place. It's like what they did with the 2018 version of grinch make him completely different instead of keeping it classic.
 

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I doubt any movie will have 99% negative on there anymore. Most of the current one that high, are the result of review trolling. Rotten tomatoes announced they are starting to require proof of theater view-ship before you can review movies. Once out on home-video and streaming, they are going to require proof of purchase before hand as well. I imagine for streaming, they’ll enable account linking to streaming services and apps. Not sure how the’ll handle physical purchases. Maybe a photo of your receipt?

There are other review sites too.

If that agregate review things show most reviews as negative it doesn't really matter how high or low the review on rotten tomatoes are.

And once the movie is out on TV then anyone will be able to give this negative reviews anyway.
 

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Hard to please?

Jesus Christ the only thing people are complaining about, is the fact that their favorite videogame character, does not look like their favorite video game character.

I can't possibly blame people for this.
I feel like the team doesn't want to straight up rip a previous form of sonic too closely. They went too far, and are likely going to get closer to sonics actual design. They are still redesigning, not ripping a game asset and adding fur physics to it.
 
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Well, I liked the Sonic render in the trailer so I wouldn't have cared if they didn't change it. Whatever they change it to I'm sure I won't mind either way. The movie trailer looked good and most video game to movie transitions, especially when it comes to rendering, aren't exact spot on (not the mention there is no uniform Sonic design to begin with).
 

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Didn't they had focus groups or something to tell them if their design is abysmal or not?

What I don't like about development these days. "Focus groups said Dante looks like a guy who'd get laughed out of a bar. One of the more politically moderate parents said, "He should...look like a more emo Justin Bieber! My daughter loves his music and is into these weird freak guys in these weird metal bands. Yeah, she said they're like the new goths!" Dante should look like that."

And then we get this shit:

 
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What I don't like about development these days. "Focus groups said Dante looks like a guy who'd get laughed out of a bar. One of the more politically moderate parents said, "He should...look like a more emo Justin Bieber! My daughter loves his music and is into these weird freak guys in these weird metal bands. Yeah, she said they're like the new goths!" Dante should look like that."

And then we get this shit:



Than they turned him into an old man suddenly in #5 and used an altered dmc of Dante design for Nero. I actually got used to the new Nero design, but not the old man Dante. It’s like he’s a completely different person from dmc4
 

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Than they turned him into an old man suddenly in #5 and used an altered dmc of Dante design for Nero. I actually got used to the new Nero design, but not the old man Dante. It’s like he’s a completely different person from dmc4

I see. I'm planning on marathoning all of the games soon (probably going to go 1st game, third game, second game, fourth game, and then the "finale" even though they act like it isn't a finale, of which I unfortunately have been spoiled of some of the events in 5 because of YT recommendations :(), but it's at least better than his more silent treatment (from what I've heard) in DMC2?
 

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I see. I'm planning on marathoning all of the games soon (probably going to go 1st game, third game, second game, fourth game, and then the "finale" even though they act like it isn't a finale, of which I unfortunately have been spoiled of some of the events in 5 because of YT recommendations :(), but it's at least better than his more silent treatment (from what I've heard) in DMC2?

Why not play them in order? 1-5?

I have only played 4, 5 and the alternate universe aka DmC. So I can’t comment on dmc2
 

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Why not play them in order? 1-5?

I have only played 4, 5 and the alternate universe aka DmC. So I can’t comment on dmc2

To stay somewhat...chronological. My original planned order had 4 and two switched around, but I've heard that they since re-ordered the canon, and now the order that I got it in now. Either way, I've heard, (and from what little I played of the game then) that the second game is the low point of the series. The only reason I'm not starting with 3 is that I remember playing it back in between college semesters and getting my ass kicked because I was just trying to rush through the game so I could check that series of games off my list of my backlog before Capcom started this (sans new fighting games, they really need to get their head out of their ass there, ESPECIALLY with the next Marvel Vs. game, if it ever happens) Redemption Arc of sorts in their video game production history.
 

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To stay somewhat...chronological. My original planned order had 4 and two switched around, but I've heard that they since re-ordered the canon, and now the order that I got it in now.

The games story isn’t in order of release? I hate that. The titles shouldn’t feature #s than imo.
 

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