It’s an absolute blast.
JOSH MILLER: Yeah.
If they did, they would never have hired us in the first place.
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CASEY: There were no reshoots at all.
All the live action stuff remained exactly the same.
So the story overall remained pretty much the same.
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We did come back in and retool some stuff, especially the very beginning of the movie.
SinceSpeedhas been referenced a few times in the first two films, I imagine your fans.
What was it like when you got the news that Keanu was cast as Shadow?
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So even just that minor connection, like when we learned that we’re like, Oh man!
Keanu knows about the movie?
That’s so cool!
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And he said yes?
That’s even cooler!
Plus, I think he was all of ours, as fans, choice as well.
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COLLIDER: Well, that actually factors perfectly into my next question.
When you were writing Shadow, was Keanu someone you just always had in mind for the part?
Even though you obviously don’t know [who will be cast] when you’re writing the character.
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MILLER: Yeah, we certainly had his voice in our minds.
I think whether we wanted to or not, that was the talk even before starting on Part Three.
And we’re kind of like, I mean, I think Keanu?
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If Keanu will do it?
So we were like, Go right into Keanu.
MILLER: It was definitely like, What’s the balance?
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is the sequel to the 2022 comedy-adventure movie that featured the Blue Blur and his companions on an adventure to stop Dr. Robotnik from taking over the world. The new film sees the new antagonist Shadow the Hedgehog, arriving to cause trouble for the newly formed trio of heroes, Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles, as they adjust to their earthly lives.
How much, how dark can it get and still be a PG?
I don’t think it was ever really floated the idea that it might be a PG-13.
How your family forms who you are, and then carry that theme over to the Robotniks as well.
Even Shadows backstory, it’s not exactly the same.
There’s elements missing.
MILLER: Yeah and she also has got like this terminal illness and all this stuff so.
It doesn’t seem like we needed it, at least for our movie version.
MILLER: The simple answer is that I think Jeff weighed everything and tried everything too.
That keeps getting adjusted, even in post production.
The kind of like figuring out how much can we include.
CASEY: There were certain things.
I mean, Jeff loved the image of Maria and Shadow pressing their hands up against the tube.
So that was always going to be in it.
Those beautiful shots that he loves to get.
COLLIDER: Great song choice too.
End of the Line fits that flashback sequence perfectly.
CASEY: Hey, its not historically accurate for when that song came out.
COLLIDER: True but I thought it fit the scene pretty well.
So I think it was a good creative choice!
MILLER: I choose to say that The Traveling Wilburys have always existed.
Thats what this movie has revealed.
The ‘Sonic’ Movies Crafted an “Arena” for Jim Carrey
COLLIDER: You mentioned Carrey.
Is it flattering when an actor takes your material and runs with it?
Is it frustrating when something you’ve written gets taken in a different direction?
MILLER: Fortunately with Jim, we’re in a good place where we almost feel bad at times.
Just be like Oh man, that Jim Carrey stuff was so funny.
How’d you write all that?
And it’s like, Well Jim Carrey wrote most of that.
And, you know, we think of that in some ways, writing the movies.
CASEY: We just tried to give him, like, a framework.
Jim has lots of notes, but they’re never really about the story.
MILLER: Yeah, at the end of the day, he just wants a friend too.
Its really good visual character development.
MILLER: Well, that’s another thing.
Stepping away fromSonicfor a second, we recently got an update for another project you’ve been working on.
What can fans of the first film and its action movie take on Santa Claus expect from the sequel?
And you don’t want Santa just trapped in a mansion again.
CASEY: And one little teaser: Santas gonna take his shirt off even more in this one.
We know what the people want.
COLLIDER: Well, you mentioned the mythology.
CASEY: We know people are hungry for more of his Viking backstory.
David is especially excited about that stuff.
So it’ll be very exciting to see.
Very different punch in of game that’s very, very story driven.
MILLER: I mean, that was just nice that theSonicmovies have been doing well.
So we’re like, let us play the game.
And we played it, and we were both like, holy shi, awesome!
It’s a lot of story.
Way more story than, say,Sonic the HedgehogPart One.
So that was its own challenge of figuring out what to use.
CASEY: So inherently movie like, but, yeah.
The challenge is sort of the opposite ofSonic.
Again, adapting anything, it’s like, what’s the most important part of this?
I don’t even know how long it took us.
It was funny, we took several days just to play video games.
MILLER: Which is great!
But we can’t announce anything official at this moment, other than we’re very excited about it.
Since its only been announced a week ago.
What about this one?
So it’s not hard to imagine there can be easily several more sequels and keep expanding the universe.
The franchise has not done a whole lot really into the idea of where Sonic came from.
That’s where this is all going.
InSonic the HedgehogPart Ten!
CASEY: Big the Cat is our Thanos, you know?
Sonic the Hedgehog 3is playing in theaters now.
