Sonic the Hedgehog Movie in the Works!!

The Hollywood Reporter and other sources have reported that Sony Pictures is developing a Sonic the Hedgehog feature film!

Of course, no plot details and little other information have yet been revealed; however, now that the film has officially been announced, I suppose I could show you guys some ideas I had regarding potential Sonic films. It was nice to hear that the official film would be a hybrid CGI/live-action production, which is exactly what I would have done.

One very early idea (which, oddly enough, was used in the 1996 OVA which became a direct-to-video "movie" for the U.S. market) involved the President being kidnapped, which I discarded soon after I came up with it for a plethora of reasons. I then envisioned a prologue in which the Master Emerald was—yet again—destroyed and it soon led to Sonic waking up in his adopted hometown of San Francisco, or a fictitious district therein called "Knothole" (the city is also the headquarters for Sega's North American operations; "Knothole" is an obvious Archie Comics reference though I know virtually nothing about that separate universe). Two ongoing characters in these drafts were Michael Wharf of the Central Intelligence Agency and his partner David Robertson, who in later revisions was said to be working for the Guardian Unit of Nations (G.U.N.) which works out of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco. CIA and G.U.N. are shown to have some sort of a rivalry and it's thought that putting two opposing agents together could solve the problem. That's right, it's a public-private semi-secret federal law enforcement version of the buddy cop genre combined with the kind of action/adventure/comedy/sci-fi elements generally found in the Sonic series. In short, not a good idea for a friggin' movie.

Oh, it gets better: Wharf and David end up on the same kind of mission Sonic is on, and when they first encounter Sonic, Wharf is obviously very suspicious of him and they have their own rivalry. But then Sonic saves Wharf's life and everything's all good and they work together, and yadda yadda yadda.

My best idea out of all this, in fact, was regarding the musical score: Sonic's leitmotif (theme) throughout would be the Masato Nakamura-penned title theme from the classic video games. I'd at least like to see that in the official product.

The "fake working titles" for this would have been SILVER SCREEN ZONE and AREA 91.

P.S. DON'T SCREW IT UP, GUYS…