[Barry the Nomad]

I just completed an interview with Sega Mega Drive/Genesis Collected Works author Darren Wall and Console Wars author Blake J. Harris, and Blake revealed details on a cancelled Sonic the Hedgehog movie that was to debut in 1995.

All the details will be in a piece he is writing for IGN, but you can hear some teases of the two treatments in the interview I am uploading now. I'll embed the video here soon, but for now here are some tidbits:

One treatment was a young real world boy turning into Sonic, another was a Roger Rabbit scenario of the real world and the video game world meeting - which is sort of like Wreck-It Ralph

I recall some magazines back in 1995 hinted at a movie being in the works, with the Archie comics confirming it and joking that Michael J. Fox was to play Sonic (not really).

Update: Here is where the conversation begins:

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This post has been edited by Barry the Nomad: 18 November 2014 - 09:16 PM

[JaxTH]

Barry the Nomad, on 18 November 2014 - 08:09 PM, said:

One treatment was a young real world boy turning into Sonic, another was a Roger Rabbit scenario of the real world and the video game world meeting - which is sort of like Wreck-It Ralph

That would have been horrible.

[Metalsonicmk72]

JaxTH, on 18 November 2014 - 08:13 PM, said:

Barry the Nomad, on 18 November 2014 - 08:09 PM, said:

One treatment was a young real world boy turning into Sonic, another was a Roger Rabbit scenario of the real world and the video game world meeting - which is sort of like Wreck-It Ralph

That would have been horrible.

Spoiler

Too late, it's already happened once.

This post has been edited by Metalsonicmk72: 18 November 2014 - 08:54 PM

[JaxTH]

Metalsonicmk72, on 18 November 2014 - 08:51 PM, said:

JaxTH, on 18 November 2014 - 08:13 PM, said:

Barry the Nomad, on 18 November 2014 - 08:09 PM, said:

One treatment was a young real world boy turning into Sonic, another was a Roger Rabbit scenario of the real world and the video game world meeting - which is sort of like Wreck-It Ralph

That would have been horrible.

Spoiler

Too late, it's already happened once.

Your image isn't showing up, but is it that Sonic the Comic issue?

[Metalsonicmk72]

I believe it's fixed now. Had to move the file elsewhere since I can't find the original link.

Point is that this is one of those weird ideas from the 90's that wasn't already unheard of.

[Lobotomy]

Oh my god I'm so glad that didn't happen.

[Billy]

That sounds interesting! I can't wait to hear more on it. I think it would've be fun to look back on a wacky 90's Sonic movie, much in the same way we can with the Super Mario Bros. movie. From the sound of it, it wouldn't have fared much better than the SMB movie. That is, it'd only be somewhat related to the actual games.

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with the Archie comics confirming it and joking that Michael J. Fox was to play Sonic (not really)

There's a really obvious and offensive Parkinson's joke to made here.

[Dr. Corndog]

I remember the Sonic movie being confirmed in the Sonic Grams letter section of one issue. It was always a surreal thing to me as a kid, because I never heard anything else about a Sonic movie before or after that issue.

[f2bnp]

Thank god this never happened!

[Barry the Nomad]

Dr. Corndog, on 19 November 2014 - 07:08 AM, said:

I remember the Sonic movie being confirmed in the Sonic Grams letter section of one issue. It was always a surreal thing to me as a kid, because I never heard anything else about a Sonic movie before or after that issue.

Can you recall the issue? Blake was asking me if it was mentioned in the comics and I said yes, but I didn't have a source.

[Lobotomy]

Well, there could only be about 10-13 issues in 1995, so that would be a good place to start. I'd help, but I am currently detached from my comic collection.