#but like. i'd rather just keep the video game actors then replace them with famous people

[gayemeralds]

So for your revised version of the Sonic movies, would you still keep Ben Schwartz as Sonic, Jim Carrey as Robotnik/Eggman, Colleen O'Shaughnessy as Tails, and Idris Elba as Knuckles?

When looking at movies based on established IPs or animated shows, they either go with having the usual professional VAs return as their characters but also introduce a bunch of new characters voiced by celebrities to compensate (like with the SpongeBob movies, Rugrats trilogy, and My Little Pony The Movie 2017) or outright replace the entire voice cast with celebrities (the recent 2023 animated Mario movie and SCOOB) if they aren't adding new characters. So with that in mind, would you still keep Ben, Jim, and Idris as Sonic, Robotnik/Eggman, and Knuckles for the sake of filling the celebrity quota for theatrical movies?

in my ideal ideal world this movie would be fully animated and be decently accurate adaptations of the classic games so famous live action actors wouldn't be needed. in my Perfect World they would just use the game voice actors for this. like mike pollock is a perfect eggman and roger craig smith is already a VERY renowned voice actor who's played batman and captain america, for instance. if they can keep tails's voice actor for the movies i don't see why we can't have a mostly game voiced series. like i know sonic x was a different scenerio but...

im not SUPER familiar with voice actors so like i can't really give Celebrity Alternatives. but i would DEFINITELY axe sonic and knuckles's voice actors. ben schwartz is great but i HATE HATE HATE his voice for sonic. if we're using my idea for the games (actual attempts at being a game adaptation) then ben schwartz just does not fit for that version of sonic, who's cooler than ice and a fierce and reckless daredevil. he doesn't work. idris elba didn't even work for the original sonic movies that is TOO deep of a voice for knuckles im sorry it doesn't work.

i guess if i had to i would have sonic keep his video game actor for sure since he's already a big hit. i think it would be great if sonic AND eggman had their game voice actors but i think realistically they would push for eggmn to have a famous voice actor. mark hamil could probably fuck some shit up as him if i'm honest. if they gave other characters like amy, knuckles, and tails famous voice actors i wouldn't be surprised. still, i think it would be best to just keep the voice actors from the games unless there's genuine better opportunities.