Ben Schwartz Voicing Sonic the Hedgehog In the Forthcoming Film

Sonic the Hedgehog was a giant hit after debuting on the SEGA Genesis in 1991.

Envisioned as a synthesis of live-action and CGI, the film is to center around Sonic and his friends Tails the fox and Knuckles the echidna. Until today, the title role still had yet to be filled, but we now know who is playing the voice of Sonic the Hedgehog in the upcoming film.

Scwartz, who is now voicing Dewey Duck on Disney Channel's Duck Tales reboot, can next be seen in the Kevin Hart and Tiffany Haddish comedy Night School. Whether or not it lives up to the hype remains to be seen, but it's nice to see that Schwartz seems genuinely confident about the project.

The actor confirmed that he would play longtime Sonic nemesis Doctor Robotnik, and that he was involved in a live-action capacity, according to a recent report.

Some context for the above tweet, this isn't the first iconic "blue" character from the 90s that Schwartz has voiced. "Mixed with desperation." So perhaps we'll be getting Carrey under a lot of prosthetic make-up as he's done before in How the Grinch Stole Christmas and Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. That movie will apparently star Jim Carrey and James Marsden.

Sonic the Hedgehog will be directed by first-time director Jeff Fowler, working from a script that has been worked on by Patrick Casey, Josh Miller and Oren Uziel.

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