Keanu Reeves set to give “fan-faithful version” of Shadow in Sonic 3 movie

It’s hard to believe that Sonic the Hedgehog 3 will premiere in just under two months. Over the past weekend, Sonic director Jeff Fowler did a Q&A at Sonic Revolution and brought up Keanu Reeves. Keanu was one of the top choices to voice the iconic antihero after the reveal in Sonic The Hedgehog 2’s post credits and a fancast was actually correct for once!

According to Fowler, Keanu had a vision for how he wanted to voice Shadow and was genuinely excited to bring his own interpretation to life. In fact, Fowler says that Keanu did research over the character, in order to be as faithful to the character as possible. It was obvious that this wasn’t just another job for Keanu and that he was dedicated to doing justice to Shadow’s character. 

Via Sonic Stadium:

 

It’s so awesome that we got Keanu Reeves to voice the character, and he was so fantastic to work with. I think he thinks the character is awesome. I think he definitely understood what we were going for and was very excited to kinda do his version of it, but he, like all the cast, really wants to get it right, really cares.

He would give us so many different versions of line readings and just wanna keep going. He was not just sort of showing up and just reading the script into a microphone. Like he really wanted to create a very fan-faithful version of the character. He did research. In our first meeting, he very clearly had gone and done his homework, which was awesome.

And so, I just can’t say enough wonderful things about Keanu and what he brought to the character, and just the experience of making this movie.

 

It’s exciting to see when actors do voice acting because they want to and not for the paycheck.

Sonic the Hedgehog 3 releases in theaters on Friday, December 20th! 

 

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