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‘Sonic the Hedgehog 3’ Director Jeff Fowler on Casting Keanu Reeves as Shadow, Bringing Back Jim Carrey and What’s Next for the Franchise
'Sonic the Hedgehog 3' director Jeff Fowler details plans for the franchise’s future and talks about getting Jim Carrey to come back from retirement.
Jeff Fowler has directed all three “Sonic the Hedgehog” films, but his association with the video game franchise pre-dates the spikey haired speedster’s big screen debut. Ultimately, it was the prospect of playing not one, but two outrageous characters that helped seal the deal, with Carrey doing double duty as the demented doctor and his grandfather, Professor Gerald Robotnik, that got the comic to sign on the dotted line. When Fowler and his team were working on the first “Sonic the Hedgehog” movie, initial designs for the CGI creation were subjected to withering reviews on social media, with fans faulting the character’s eyes and teeth and comparing him unfavorably to the felines in “Cats.” Fowler went public, saying that “the message is loud and clear” and sending the team back to the drawing boards for a redesign that more closely aligned the movie version of Sonic with the one from the games.
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