00:00Okay, I mean, this franchise is incredible. I mean, I'm thinking back to when we got introduced to,
00:04and I feel like a mea culpa about this because I feel bad calling him Ugly Sonic,
00:08but when we were introduced to Ugly Sonic and then the fans have just, I think, defied the
00:12expectations of this franchise. I mean, how has it surprised you seeing how the fans embrace this
00:17franchise and where we are today with the third film? Well, I mean, that's why it's good sometimes
00:21that you don't always put the writers in charge of things. We didn't know if it was a good idea
00:26to change the design because you didn't know if the people complaining online were even going to
00:31see the movie in the first place. So the fact that they changed the design and that people
00:35really embraced the movie surprised even us. People genuinely gave us a second chance,
00:41which kind of restored some of my faith in humanity, to be honest. Yeah, it's amazing.
00:46And now this time around, I mean, we got the second one, we got Idris Elba as Knuckles,
00:50and then it's like, who can we get for the third one? And Keanu Reeves immediately says, yes,
00:54I heard he was the first choice. What does Shadow bring to this franchise? What can you
00:57tell me about this character? Well, because, you know, Knuckles was a tough guy, but I think
01:01certainly fans always knew that he was being misled and he was, you know, a softy inside.
01:08So it was fun to play with, you know, outwardly cuddly character who's a real serious mean guy
01:15like Shadow. Shadow really brings a lot of intensity and kind of big operatic emotions
01:21and some real drama to the series, more so than any of our characters have before.
01:27Because I mean, Knuckles, he's so deadpan. You know, Sonic is so ambitious.
01:32How would you describe Shadow's kind of attitude? He's serious. I mean, you can say Knuckles is
01:37serious as well, but Knuckles is, you know, he misunderstands things. Shadow understands
01:44everything perfectly. And he's just he's dark. He's got a lot of anger issues. He's going to
01:51have to work through. Are you familiar with the Maddie theory? What is the Maddie theory?
01:56OK, so in the color theory. Yes. No comment. I was going to say she's wearing pink in that poster
02:03over there. No comment. Well, let me ask you something you can answer. What do you envision
02:08for the future of the franchise? We I mean, it's funny if it was up to us, we'd like some more
02:15outer space stuff. We've done a lot of exploring on Earth and obviously Earth is Sonic's homo,
02:21you know, true home, really adopted home. We just want to meet more characters and have
02:27adventures that are even bigger and more colorful and just keep growing the franchise.
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