So when Sonic was first announced to be a movie sometimes it was said to have been released around 2016 before the changes made to the release date and the leaks of the design and later redesign but did you know that some time ago there was going to be a film about Sonic set around the 90s well release in the 90s if it happens and pitch back in 1994 to the studios of MGM Trilogy Entertainment Group and Sega which they like meaning Sega but we'll get to that later anyways. So let's talk about the movie itself and what could have happened and how this might have worked somehow just a little heads-up there's been no concept art nor designs of what sonic would have looked like since back in the 90s and I'm gonna paraphrase it just for time's sake. But a little bit of history back in 93 during the cartoon show itself Michealene Risley was newly appointed back than discussed of how negotiated with Hollywood producers about supporting the project she recalled then either SEGA President or Vice President Tom Kalinske and Shinobu Toyoda were in talks of a Sonic movie but Tom was against the idea since the damage from 1987 Masters of the universe cause the toy sales to go down and later the critical failures of Super Mario Brothers and Streetfighters affect the reputations and franchises but Kalinske know the risk after telling it to Shinobu and that a bad movie can affect a franchise and it's brand but Sonic was so willing to stay strong and there was fear within and despite the concerns Sega were excited for the idea and timing of the movie was going to be either live-action or animation negotiating with Sega and MGM and Trilogy Entertainment Group struck a deal and Producer Pen Densham was the executive producer of the planned movie, after the deal was made Richard Jefferies was told to come up with a screenplay after he written The vagrant for MGM back in 1992 and had work with Risley in Marvel Comics after trying to work on a Silver Surfer but things with sega were doing so great after they had issues with Sonic X-Treme which was going through development and want the Sega Saturn to tie in with the upcoming movie and Sonic was going through computer games like heavy use of computer generated imagery and Jefferies's treatment had references of the games which Josh's papers was about a World War 2 pilot name Sonic that was killed in a freak accident when he tired to break the sound barrier that was a reference to the technical files of the first game that provide Sonic The hedgehog original backstory.
Plot
The film talks about 12-year-old Josh Pinski his family is going through a divorce and he is presenting a rush work of his historical work and his teacher tells him that he has tomorrow to fix the work or his parents are gonna be called in, he came back home who his father Hal owns an apartment and he is a scientist as he his working on XRI (Extremely Radical Intelligence) that works on artificial intelligence that has the ability to bring virtual reality after dinner Hal left for a research piece of hardware Josh heads over to XRI after failing to help him with his work Josh gets his Sega Saturn to play Sonic X-Treme then suddenly the XRI brings in Sonic and DR Robotink causing havoc and destroying Hal's apartment and left more damage to the streets and cars Dr Eggman now out was call Dr. Robotnik his minions are out as they plan to take over the world (Of course) Sonic started to loss his powers since he is in the real world and can't stop Dr Robotnik. After the damage, Josh's parents arrive back home shocked of the damage Josh's mom arrives a argument between the two causes Josh's mom to take him back after josh fail to explain what happened and don't believe him while being taken to his mom's house Sonic follows josh. the next morning sonic and josh start a plan and need to stop Eggman's plan and they need to find the chaos emeralds something that Sonic uses to gain power which sonic gives it to josh and he wanted to use for his school work but sonic warns him about exploit of the emerald's powers until he masters it. Meanwhile, Eggman makes an amusement park call Shady Corporation and uses it to purchase an abandoned, ramshackle amusement park after renaming Botnikland amusement park (wow reminds me of a comic book villain somehow) then Eggman later recruit some school bullies into robots Eggman of them as Bullibots and Eggman orders them to find the chaos emeralds hm i imagine a version that being real from CGI.
Anyways Eggman recruit hal to be his research and development designer using XRL Technology and Eggman uses virtual reality to draw kids attention to the park and across the town, Josh and Sonic inspect the park and found out that the kids are being turned into badniks and forcing them to find the chaos emeralds and eggman happens to use them and using xrl on Mount Everest and Amazon rainforest into digital copies and making a profit off of people and that way people wouldn't know them the bullibots caught them with sonic capture and josh escaping, after leaving Josh's parents has been capture and josh hatches a plan for everything to go back to where things were and having eggman to go back as well which has Sonic and Eggman battle and activities the XRL and has the three of them and bullibots to go into the X-Treme and a battle ensues Eggman is defeated but sonic has to be back in the world where he once belonged to and Josh and Sonic said their goodbyes Josh and his parents are reunited and later on Josh is playing his game but while that Sonic stops and gives a wink to josh while resuming the game.
What happened afterward
So that's what the film would have been about and according to Sega themselves like the film and wanted some rewrites around the script and Eggman or Robotnik was said to be renamed around 1995 after the pitch was delivered to them. But for some reason, MGM Drop out of the project without telling so why likely due to the budget of around 150 million which cause MGM To back out of the deal or maybe due to creative differences or that Sonic was falling out of favor on the game market. Not even Dreamworks helped due of the cause of their classic animation was shut down around 2003 after the failures of Sinlad: Legend of the seven seas.
If you want to check this out feel free to look on for yourself but I really wish this would have happened maybe if Nickelodeon would have helped out or Dreamworks Paramount Pictures would join in the project give the film for it to be greenlit go through the cast filming locations the rest goes on and on but if this was greenlit in 1995 the project would have started at that time like pre-production list of actors the team around the film later have those from Sega America and Japan then after it's going forward filming would have started around 1996/97 or 98 who knows to go through post productions trailers would have gone wild and later release around whatever it would have come out or maybe around 2001 with Nickelodeon and Paramount Pictures it's all just something I would have imagined about or would have aimed for a 1998 release or 1999 or 2000 release who knows whatever studio would announce for. As for the other Sonic movie called Sonic Armageddon yeah I plan to talk about that one later or maybe not. And the heads up here's the link of the story itself and i heard of the script being on the internet feel free to see it yourself at least we got Two Sonic movies that are pretty successful.
RJ
https://sonic.fandom.com/wiki/Sonic_the_Hedgehog:_Wonders_of_the_World
https://twitter.com/SatamHistorian/status/1501341021740974082?s=20
https://lostmediawiki.com/Sonic:_Wonders_of_the_World_(partially_lost_Story_Treatment_of_cancelled_film_adaptation_of_video_game_series;_1995)
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