Test footage of the original 2020 “Ugly Sonic” design has surfaced, reigniting discussion around one of Hollywood’s most ...

Early test footage of the first Sonic movie shows how the original design could have been even worse than what we saw. News. By Mireia Mullor published 30 June 2025 Luckily for us, ...

The next live-action Sonic the Hedgehog movie is coming soon, and some fans are now the proud owners of an ugly Christmas sweater based on the popular character’s now-infamous original cinematic ...

Following the redesign, Sonic the Hedgehog went on to gross more than $320 million at the global box office. The movie proved so successful that it spawned two sequels and a live-action spin-off ...

How was the Sonic design changed? In May 2019, it was announced that Sonic The Hedgehog had been pushed back from its original release date in November to a Valentine's Day spot in 2020.

The original movie design for Sonic the Hedgehog saw the eponymous hero given human-like features, including a unsettling set of teeth. Many fans commented that the character looked like a ...

On the left, the new Sonic the Hedgehog design. On the right, Sonic the Hedgehog as he appeared in the first movie trailer. Paramount Pictures / Sega Games Co.

The decision to redesign Sonic resulted in a three-month delay for the film, pushing it from November 2019 to February 2020. But when the new-and-improved Sonic was unveiled in a trailer around ...

Sonic the Hedgehog has had a redesign for the new live-action movie, but that backlash was never the movie's biggest challenge.

The Sonic redesign for the upcoming live-action movie is here, and fans seem overall quite pleased. The design looks much more like the stylized, wide-eyed look that anyone who’s played a modern ...

Paramount Pictures. The Sonic the Hedgehog movie just might be getting some last-minute edits thanks to the loud outcry of opposition from fans a few months ahead of the titular character’s film ...

Sonic Movie Redesign Helmed By Sonic Mania Dev. Writing on Twitter, Hesse had the following to say: Honored to have been brought in to lead the design on the new Movie Sonic.