What Makes the Sonic Film Franchise Special? + Interview With Director Jeff Fowler
/Film Daily
SlashFilm.com
4.6 • 930 Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
On the January 23, 2025 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film editors Jacob Hall and BJ Colangelo to talk about the Sonic the Hedgehog film franchise and present an interview with Sonic movie director Jeff Fowler.
In Our Feature Presentation:
- Sonic The Hedgehog Review: An Exhausting Video Game Adaptation With An Identity Crisis
- Sonic The Hedgehog 2 Review: An Overlong And Exhausting Sequel
- Sonic The Hedgehog 3 Review: The Blue Blur Is Bigger, Bolder, And Better Than Ever
- What makes the Sonic film franchise special?
- Why did this video game movie succeed where others failed?
- Ben Schwartz
- Jim Carrey
- Jeff Fowler interview
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| 0:54.4 | everything secure. Hello, everyone. Welcome to Slash Film Daily. Today is Thursday, January 23, |
| 0:59.4 | 2025. On today's episode of the show, we're going to be talking about the Sonic the Hedgehog |
| 1:03.5 | film franchise, and we'll present an interview with Sonic movie director, Jeff Fowler. My name |
| 1:08.7 | is Ben Pearson. I'm an editor at Slfilm.com and I'm joined on today's |
| 1:12.0 | episode by Slashfilm editors, Jacob Hall. Hello, hello. And B.J. Calangelo. Hi, hi, hi. Yeah. |
| 1:19.1 | All right, BJ, you had a chance to speak with Jeff Fowler, who has directed all three of these |
| 1:24.1 | live action animation hybrid Sonic movies. |
| 1:30.9 | And the third film is available on digital right now. |
| 1:33.1 | So if people miss it in theaters, they can check that out. |
| 1:35.1 | I know you're a fan of these movies. |
| 1:38.0 | You talked about your love for Sonic the Hedgehog 3. |
| 1:40.6 | Jacob, I know you also like these movies. |
| 1:42.5 | And I just thought I have not seen any of these. |
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