{"id":506746,"date":"2025-11-17T17:41:39","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T17:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/a-third-sonic-the-hedgehog-film-and-paramount-series-are-in-the-works\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T17:41:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T17:41:39","slug":"a-third-sonic-the-hedgehog-film-and-paramount-series-are-in-the-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/a-third-sonic-the-hedgehog-film-and-paramount-series-are-in-the-works\/","title":{"rendered":"A Third Sonic The Hedgehog Film And Paramount+ Series Are In The Works"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/a-third-sonic-the-hedgehog-film-and-paramount-series-are-in-the-works.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" alt=\"\" typeof=\"Image\" class=\"image-style-body-default\" \/> <\/p>\n<p><em>Sonic the Hedgehog 2<\/em> doesn\u2019t premiere in theaters until April 8, but Sega and Paramount Pictures have confirmed that a third film is in the works along with TV spin-off series for Paramount+.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a press release, the companies revealed that development of Sonic 3 (or whatever it winds up being called) has already begun. There\u2019s no word on who will be involved, but one would imagine the main cast will stick around along with director Jeff Fowler. Sega and Paramount did not share a release window.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The live-action TV series features\u00a0Idris Elba\u2019s Knuckles, who makes his debut in <em>Sonic the Hedgehog 2<\/em>, and will premiere in 2023. It\u2019s unclear if Knuckles is the star of this show or is just the first character confirmed for it but the former sounds more likely. This adds another video game series to Paramount+&#8217;s line-up alongside its soon-to-premiere <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/gamer-culture\/2022\/01\/30\/halo-the-series-trailer-reveals-march-premiere-date-first-look-at-cortana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Halo<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0To avoid potential confusion, this Sonic TV show is a separate project from <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/2021\/02\/01\/new-sonic-the-hedgehog-netflix-animated-series-revealed-sonic-prime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sonic Prime<\/a><\/em>, the animated series that debuts on Netflix sometime this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got a remarkable partnership with Paramount, and we are excited to continue expanding the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise with them,\u201d says Sega CEO Haruki Satomi in the press release. \u201c2022 is shaping up to be a significant year for the franchise with the second film being released this April, as well as Sonic Frontiers, the highly anticipated video game title, coming this holiday.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>2022 is indeed a big year for Sonic. As previously mentioned, his first open-world game <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/the-game-awards-2021\/2021\/12\/09\/sonic-frontiers-drops-the-blue-blur-into-his-first-open-world-game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sonic Frontiers<\/a> is slated to arrive later this year.\u00a0You can read about how that game was originally intended to release in 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/2022\/01\/03\/sonic-frontiers-was-originally-going-to-release-in-2021-for-the-series-30th-anniversary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/gamer-culture\/2022\/02\/15\/a-third-sonic-the-hedgehog-film-and-paramount-series-are-in-the-works\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sonic the Hedgehog 2 doesn\u2019t premiere in theaters until April 8, but Sega and Paramount Pictures have confirmed that a third film is in the works along with TV spin-off series for Paramount+.\u00a0 In a press release, the companies revealed that development of Sonic 3 (or whatever it winds up being called) has already begun. There\u2019s no word on who will be involved, but one would imagine the main cast will stick around along with director Jeff Fowler. Sega and Paramount did not share a release window.\u00a0 The live-action TV series features\u00a0Idris Elba\u2019s Knuckles, who makes his debut in Sonic the Hedgehog 2, and will premiere in 2023. It\u2019s unclear if Knuckles is the star of this show or is just the first character confirmed&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/a-third-sonic-the-hedgehog-film-and-paramount-series-are-in-the-works\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":506747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-506746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-informer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A Third Sonic The Hedgehog Film And Paramount+ Series Are In The Works | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Sonic the Hedgehog 2 doesn\u2019t premiere in theaters until April 8, but Sega 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