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 ...

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 ...

Test footage of the scrapped "Ugly Sonic" design leaked on June 28, 2025. The footage revives the 2019 backlash that led to a $5 million redesign.

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.

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.

MOVIES. There are hundreds of similarities and nods to the original source material in the Sonic movies, most notably Sonic’s fun-loving attitude and mischievous spirit of adventure (voiced ...

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 ...

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 ...

However, by the end of the movie, Robotnik is stranded on a mushroom-filled planet, where he shaves his head, and has his iconic mustache, setting up his appearance in Sonic the Hedgehog 2.

The executive producer of Sonic the Hedgehog responds to movie's delay after fan backlash forces redesign Ale Russian is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023 ...