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NEWS: Live-Action Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Film Casts Kristen Bell as Amy Rose

Hope the budget is still reasonable, and they didn't have to pay her Frozen dough to hire her.

GATSU wrote:

Hope the budget is still reasonable, and they didn't have to pay her Frozen dough to hire her.

Previous movies hired Keanu Reeves & Idris Elba on the voice over side so hiring Kristen Bell isn't going to suddenly make the budget balloon out of control.

Now we have to wonder whether Jim will return again as Eggman.

As someone who grew up with the old cartoons, and comics it will always feel weird not having Sally Acorn in a Sonic franchise especially one that places an emphasis on storytelling such as film.

archy10 wrote:

Now we have to wonder whether Jim will return again as Eggman.

The series is dead in the water once Jim Carrey no longer wants to play Robotnik.

Kristen Bell seems like a great choice for voicing Amy Rose. I do find it interesting that only Tails is voiced by his current game VA, I do wonder if there's some mandate from SEGA that says that Tails can only be voiced by a woman or that maybe Paramount was satisfied with Colleen's performance at the end of Sonic 1 and didn't feel the need to recast her.

As someone who grew up with the old cartoons, and comics it will always feel weird not having Sally Acorn in a Sonic franchise especially one that places an emphasis on storytelling such as film.

The series is dead in the water once Jim Carrey no longer wants to play Robotnik.

I do wonder if there's some mandate from SEGA that says that Tails can only be voiced by a woman or that maybe Paramount was satisfied with Colleen's performance at the end of Sonic 1 and didn't feel the need to recast her.

If this were still the era of video games where the plot was largely relegated to the manual of the games and maybe a few cutscenes in game you’d maybe have a point. But the modern Sonic games have storytelling in them. The other problem is most Sonic fans have never watched the 90’s cartoons or read the Archie Comics so of course they’re not going to pull anything from there.

Yeah, I'm willing the bet the only people who know who Sally Acorn is are people pushing 40 these days given how old the show is. The simple answer is the American characters created for the American cartoons and comics are not really 'canon' they're their own thing. Sonic is going to prioritize the original game characters. It's like asking why Link doesn't act like he does in the Zelda cartoon or Simon Belmont isn't a prissy narcissist or Mega Man doesn't talk like a chain smoker like in Captain N.

Interesting choice, let's see how it works out as Amy Rose is a different type of character compared to Elsa. Not knocking against Kristen Bell, just not familiar with her work outside of Frozen.

Yeah, I'm willing the bet the only people who know who Sally Acorn is are people pushing 40 these days given how old the show is. The simple answer is the American characters created for the American cartoons and comics are not really 'canon' they're their own thing. Sonic is going to prioritize the original game characters. It's like asking why Link doesn't act like he does in the Zelda cartoon or Simon Belmont isn't a prissy narcissist or Mega Man doesn't talk like a chain smoker like in Captain N.

Silver Kirin wrote:

Kristen Bell seems like a great choice for voicing Amy Rose. I do find it interesting that only Tails is voiced by his current game VA, I do wonder if there's some mandate from SEGA that says that Tails can only be voiced by a woman or that maybe Paramount was satisfied with Colleen's performance at the end of Sonic 1 and didn't feel the need to recast her.

I honestly think it's just a lucky break on her part. She did a cameo for the end of the first movie that they didn't bother to cast an expensive celebrity for. The movie unexpectedly did really well to greenlight multiple sequels and they kept her on rather than change her. If Tails debuted in the 2nd movie with Knuckles he no doubt would have had a celebrity voice.