Cancelled 1995 Sonic the Hedgehog movie details

[Barry the Nomad]

I just completed an interview with Sega Mega Drive/Genesis Collected Works author Darren Wall and Console Wars author Blake J. Harris, and Blake revealed details on a cancelled Sonic the Hedgehog movie that was to debut in 1995.

All the details will be in a piece he is writing for IGN, but you can hear some teases of the two treatments in the interview I am uploading now. I'll embed the video here soon, but for now here are some tidbits:

One treatment was a young real world boy turning into Sonic, another was a Roger Rabbit scenario of the real world and the video game world meeting - which is sort of like Wreck-It Ralph

I recall some magazines back in 1995 hinted at a movie being in the works, with the Archie comics confirming it and joking that Michael J. Fox was to play Sonic (not really).

[ROJM]

Now do you belive me...I said Kalinske/SOA had plans to move Sega from games towards a media presence. If the bastards at SOJ just let him do his job..Sega characters would be as known as many nintendo characters by average americans...

[crackdude]

Anyone read Retrogamer's Kalinske interview last month?

Fascinating read. Makes you kinda hate SOJ tho

[Regis]

Man, I had no idea of this project ...

It makes me curious as to what would be the result of this project, and relieved, since historically the videogame movies are not very good.

[Barry the Nomad]

Weird, Blake wrote an article for IGN and they still haven't posted it. Is this common? Do big name sites have a backlog of content or something?

[Berto]

One treatment was a young real world boy turning into Sonic.

Thank God this one didn't happened.
It reminds me of weird Japanese Sonic comic where Sonic is some kind of super hero.
His alter ego is Nikki, who wore glasses like Clark Kent.
Every time Dr Eggman attacks, Nikki will morph into the hero : Sonic The Hedgehog.

[crackdude]

Thank God this one didn't happened.
It reminds me of weird Japanese Sonic comic where Sonic is some kind of super hero.
His alter ego is Nikki, who wore glasses like Clark Kent.
Every time Dr Eggman attacks, Nikki will morph into the hero : Sonic The Hedgehog.

That does sound like really bad fanfic

[max_cady]

A real little boy turning into Sonic? Somehow that's exactly how I expected a Sonic movie to be pitched back in the day...