{"id":6964,"date":"2019-05-03T18:41:34","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T18:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog-proxy.atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/?p=6964"},"modified":"2019-05-03T18:41:34","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T18:41:34","slug":"sonic-the-hedgehog-is-getting-a-design-change-thanks-to-social-media-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/sonic-the-hedgehog-director-making-changes","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Sonic The Hedgehog&#8217; Is Getting A Design Change Thanks To Social Media Backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Sonic the Hedgehog<\/em> fans disappointed with Sonic&#8217;s new look?\u00a0Hollywood has heard you loud and clear.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/sonic-the-hedgehog-official-trailer\/\">The first trailer<\/a> for Paramount&#8217;s movie based on the SEGA game\u00a0hit the internet this week\u00a0and the internet made their passionate and negative reactions to Sonic&#8217;s look (and human teeth) known. <em>Sonic\u00a0<\/em>director, Jeff Fowler, was listening to the echo chamber and he took to Twitter to share what he is going to do about it.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Thank you for the support. And the criticism. The message is loud and clear&#8230; you aren&#39;t happy with the design &amp; you want changes. It&#39;s going to happen. Everyone at Paramount &amp; Sega are fully committed to making this character the BEST he can be&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/sonicmovie?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#sonicmovie<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/gottafixfast?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#gottafixfast<\/a> ?\u270c\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jeff Fowler (@fowltown) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fowltown\/status\/1124056098925944832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 2, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Paramount has yet to confirm what these &#8220;changes&#8221; will all entail, or if they are happening at all and to what extent. Millions have already been sent to finalize the look we&#8217;ve seen already, millions more will have to be spent to change it seven months prior to the film&#8217;s release. But will they change all the merchandise, too, that&#8217;s already in the works or has been made? Is all this time and money worth it? Is the character&#8217;s look really the thing that is impeding audiences from engaging with this movie; does the movie stand to gain that much at the box office if filmmakers change the character&#8217;s look to be more like the below?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Left is original screenshot. Right is my rework to make <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Sonic?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Sonic<\/a> more stylized. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IhXeAZYlQI\">pic.twitter.com\/IhXeAZYlQI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Edward Pun (@EdwardPun1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EdwardPun1\/status\/1123261756048953344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 30, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll get our answers when\u00a0<em>Sonic<\/em> arrives in theaters November 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sonic the Hedgehog fans disappointed with Sonic&#8217;s new look?\u00a0Hollywood has heard you loud and clear. The first trailer for Paramount&#8217;s movie based on the SEGA game\u00a0hit the internet this week\u00a0and the internet made their passionate and negative reactions to Sonic&#8217;s look (and human teeth) known. Sonic\u00a0director, Jeff Fowler, was listening to the echo chamber and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":6979,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[37,46],"class_list":["post-6964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news","tag-newspage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6964"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6982,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6964\/revisions\/6982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}