SEAL Team has wrapped filming on the show’s upcoming seventh and final season!
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Idris Elba is reacting to news that Keanu Reeves is joining the Sonic the Hedgehog universe as the voice of Shadow for the third installment of the film saga.
Elba voices Knuckles the Echidna and, during the red carpet premiere of the upcoming Paramount+ series Knuckles, shared his thoughts on Reeves.
“I’m a big fan of his,” Elba said in an interview with IGN. “I’ve heard that he’s a fan of mine, and we are destined to make something together. So, here we go.”
Elba and Reeves had shared credits voicing characters in Cyberpunk 2077 which would make Sonic the Hedgehog 3 a reunion for the actors.
Shadow made a non-speaking appearance during a mid-credits scene in 2022’s Sonic the Hedgehog 2. The character is an anthropomorphic red-striped black hedgehog created by the government and set to resemble Sonic’s abilities.
Elba reprises his voice role of Knuckles in the Paramount+ series, which will premiere on April 26. The live-action series is a sequel to Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and a prequel to the upcoming Sonic the Hedgehog 3.
Knuckles follows the titled character on a journey of self-discovery as he agrees to train Wade, played by Adam Pally, as his protégé and teach him the ways of the Echidna warrior. The cast includes Stockard Channing, Edi Patterson, Scott Mescudi, Ellie Taylor, Julian Barratt, Rory McCann, Cary Elwes, Christopher Lloyd, Paul Scheer, and Rob Huebel.
Special guest star Ben Schwartz will reprise his role as Sonic, and Tika Sumpter will reprise her role as Maddie. Colleen O’Shaughnessey also returns as a special guest star in her role as Tails.
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SEAL Team has wrapped filming on the show’s upcoming seventh and final season!
Sonic The Hedgehog 2, Idris Elba returns as Knuckles in his own spin-off series.Created by John Whittington and Toby Ascher, Knuckles serves as a sequel to the 2022 film, as he trains deputy sheriff Wade Whipple (Adam Pally) in the ways of the echidna warrior.The series also features guest appearances from Tails (Colleen O’Shaughnessey) and Sonic (Ben Schwartz), with other cast members including Julian Barratt, Rory McCann and Christopher Lloyd as the voice of Pachacamac.Knuckles is set to be followed by Sonic The Hedgehog 3, which will see Keanu Reeves join the voice cast as Shadow. The film is scheduled to be released on December 20, 2024.The show’s score is by Tom Howe, who has previously worked on Apple TV+ shows like Ted Lasso and Shrinking.You can stream the full soundtrack, which includes the song ‘Flames Of Disaster’ with Julian Barratt and Michael Bolton, below.Scandal track ‘The Warrior’ is repeatedly featured throughout the series, but there are other needle drops from the likes of Madness and Elton John sprinkled throughout too.
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Keanu Reeves is set to voice the character of Shadow in the upcoming movie Sonic The Hedgehog 3.As reported by Variety, the John Wick star will voice the character in the next instalment of the film series, adapted from the popular video game.In the game series, Shadow is an anthropomorphic hedgehog with black fur, and is somewhat of an antagonist.Reeves will be joining a star-studded cast, with the previous films featuring Ben Schwartz as Sonic, Jim Carrey, James Marsden and Idris Elba among others.The upcoming film, scheduled for a US release on December 20, 2024 will see many of the cast reprising their roles from the previous films. The sequel will draw inspiration from the early ’00s video games, Sonic Adventure 2 and Shadow The Hedgehog.The franchise was commercially successful, with the combined global box office for the first two films being $725.2million.The first film, which had its theatrical release in February 2020, became the sixth highest-grossing film of 2020, and the highest-grossing video game film adaptation in North America until 2022, when it was surpassed by its sequel.In a three-star review of the second movie, NME wrote: “Schwartz was born to voice Sonic.