[ad_1]
Jim Carrey is in final negotiations to join James Marsden in Paramount Pictures' "Sonic the Hedgehog"
Jeff Fowler, who received an Oscar nomination for his 2005 animated short film "Gopher Broke ", directs the film. that will mix real action elements and CG. Neal H. Moritz produced with Tim Miller, executive producer of "Deadpool", with Toby Ascher.
Tika Sumpter also plays in the film. Carrey will play Robotnik, a mad scientist and the sworn enemy of Sonic. Carrey played in a similar film with "The Mask" from 1994, which mixed his comic performance with CGI.
Paramount gave "Sonic the Hedgehog" a holiday season release for November 15, 2019. The project, based on the Sega video game franchise, had been underway at Sony, but the studio left its movie rights go out and Paramount resumed the project in October. Sega launched the Sonic game in 1991 and has sold more than 360 million copies to date, including packaged and digital games on consoles, tablets and mobiles.
The game features a blue hedgehog named Sonic whose peaceful life is often interrupted by Dr. Eggman, a mad scientist trying to conquer the world, and Dr. Robotnik, another scientist who has imprisoned animals in robots and stole from the magical Emeralds of Chaos. The game has been a huge success and has established the Sega Genesis console as a major player in the video game industry.
Carrey was production director of the Showtime series "I'm dying here." He is also producer and producer of Showtime. "Kidding", the first of which in September. Carrey is represented by WME and the lawyer Deborah Klein. The news has been reported for the first time by Deadline.
Source link
