After months of ready, the Sonic 3 trailer is here with the first undercover agent at Keanu Reeves’ Shadow the Hedgehog – and an no longer going Robotnik crew-up

After months of ready, the first trailer for Sonic the Hedgehog 3 has sped into look – and affords up a necessary legit undercover agent at Keanu Reeves’ Shadow.

The Sonic 3 trailer sees the Blue Blur spring into action but again as ‘Mission Shadow’ emerges, with the voiceover teasing the tragic history of the black-and-red Shadow the Hedgehog (including a transient shot of Maria, who will be familiar to game followers).

Shadow’s vitality is so massive, alternatively, that it leads Sonic to draw the unthinkable: crew up with Jim Carrey’s Robotnik to take down Keanu Reeves’ villain.

Beforehand, producer Toby Ascher teased the upcoming threequel in an interview with GamesRadar+, calling it “the most keen thing we have executed in the franchise.”

Ascher persevered, “It’s going to be this giant, fun, improbable movie that obviously takes rather a lot from Sonic Bolt 2 and some of the video games that I know the core Sonic Crew grew up loving.”

Sonic Bolt 2, for those extraordinary with one amongst the Blue Blur’s ideal adventures, modified into once a 2001 Dreamcast title that presented the sector to the Closing Lifeform, AKA Shadow the Hedgehog.

Whereas there could be been radio silence on Reeves’ casting as Shadow since it modified into once reported – including Knuckles actor Idris Elba being suitably guarded when pressed on the subject – a Sonic 3 poster at the License Expo in Las Vegas equipped the briefest of glimpses at his personality model.

Sonic the Hedgehog 3, starring Ben Schwartz, Jim Carrey, James Marsden, Idris Elba, Keanu Reeves, Colleen O’Shaughnessey, and Lee Majdoub, is residing to urge into cinemas on December 20, 2024. 

The principle two Sonic motion photos, released in 2020 and 2022 respectively, absorb grossed a total of nearly $720 million at the worldwide field office.

For more, strive a pair of of the varied upcoming video game motion photos and movie free up dates coming your scheme very rapidly. 

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