Paramount Pictures heeft een officiële trailer gedeeld voor de Sonic The Hedgehog 2-film, die een eerste blik wierp op Idris Elba’s kijk op Knuckles. Hoewel Knuckles maar kort in de trailer te zien was, waren fans behoorlijk onder de indruk van Elba’s vertolking, dat al snel een van de meest besproken delen van de video werd.
In een interview met Polygon onthulde de regisseur van de film, Jeff Fowler, dat Elba veel moeite deed om in de rol en het personage van Knuckles te kruipen, om ervoor te zorgen dat hij de ‘beste versie’ van de karakter op het scherm.
He was just so eager to absorb it all, and workshop him into best version of the character. Which was awesome. It was great to see how much he cared about getting it right.
You’ve got Sonic’s speed, you’ve got Knuckles’ super strength, and we just put them in an environment and let them go at it, it’s like a little Captain America [and] Iron Man; it just offers so much opportunity in terms of fight choreography and action.
Obviously, the nature of Robotnik and Sonic’s sort of rivalry and their battles have one sort of look and feel, But when you bring in a character like Knuckles, who has power, and in his many ways is just better suited for combat than Sonic is …
When we ended the first film, Sonic’s been in one fight. That does not turn you into a superhero overnight, and you bring along a character like Knuckles whose entire existence is about honor and about being a warrior. And like right off the bat, Sonic is no match for that dude. So to tease that kind of confrontation like we did in the trailer, for fans to realize that that’s kind of where we’re going with it, where Knuckles is just a force of nature, and Sonic is out of his element at first because Knuckles is just more than he can handle — it felt like such dramatic sort of material, and such a great foundation to build a movie story around.
Dat Sonic gevoel
Fowler bevestigde dat de film meer zal blijven leunen op de iconische beelden en momenten uit de games, zodat er genoeg “Sonic-ness” zal zijn om rond te gaan.
The tornado with Tails and Sonic, Tails delivering Sonic into battle, that’s just as iconic as it gets in my book, so to incorporate those kinds of visuals, and then characters, bringing in Knuckles as a heavy, and really just making him the badass that he is in the earliest versions of him, going all the way back to the ’90s, that’s what I would attribute to the Sonic-ness of it all.
Sonic The Hedgehog 2 gaat in première op 8 april 2022.
