Sonic's Next Movie Outings Could Go Beyond Earth To New "Fantastical Zones"

"We assume the audience would like to see it"

11 Jan 2025, 11:00 by Liam Doolan · Nintendo Life

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It's already been confirmed Sonic will be returning in a fourth live-action movie, so where to next for the blue blur?

While nothing has been finalised just yet, speaking to Collider earlier this month - the Sonic 3 movie writers Josh Miller and Pat Casey mentioned how Sonic and the gang could potentially go beyond Earth in future outings, to all sorts of "fantastical zones" and worlds.

Here's what Casey had to say, while mentioning how the third movie was "inherently earthbound":

"We definitely know that there are other worlds and these more fantastical zones, and we would like to see it, so we assume the audience would like to see it as well.

"For Sonic the Hedgehog 3, the story was all about all this military stuff and it was inherently earthbound. But possibly in the future, we might get out into some more fantastic places."

There have already been a handful of zones referenced in the Sonic live-action movies, so it would be nice to see more of Sonic's universe in his future adventures. Although there have been no official details about the fourth movie shared just yet, the end credits of the third film paint a picture of what we can likely expect.

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What zones would you like to see in Sonic's live-action movies in the future? Let us know in the comments.

[source collider.com]

About Liam Doolan

Liam is a news writer and reviewer for Nintendo Life and Pure Xbox. He's been writing about games for more than 15 years and is a lifelong fan of Mario and Master Chief.

Comments 5

1
Erigen
11:06am

Imagine if Sonic lived in a fantastical setting that Hollywood discarded just to have the excuse to not spend money to create that world and just film in real world locations.

Like that live-action He-man movie, where it was cheaper to create a portal to New York instead of re-creating Eternia.

2
JohnnyMind
11:17am

Looking forward to seeing if the next movie will bring Sonic and co. to such other worlds (but of course I should watch the previous movies first and foremost when I can)!

3
RupeeClock
11:28am

Letting the next Paramount Sonic film take place in the original settings from the source material would do it so much good.
We had little bits of it in the first two films, but the third film was entirely contained on Earth.

Narratively it's also where the story should progress. Sonic and his friends have found home and family on Earth, but he needs the opportunity to reconnect to wherever he came from and meet more of his kind.
The Sonic 2 prequel comics make clear that there's a lot more going on in the wider universe, and that inter-planetary activity isn't unusual. Tails basically invited himself in after monitoring Sonic independently for a while and wanting to actually meet him.

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NinChocolate
57m ago

Welcome to the fantasy zone

The obvious solution would be to port over the ‘plot’ from Sonic CD and throw some time travel shenanigans into the mix. You could have a fantastical future where Robotnik has taken control of the earth with some nods to Scrap Brain, Casino Nights etc and then have him travel to Prehistoric times.

Then throw in a post credits stinger where for some unknown reason Mario pops up!