Keanu Reeves Will Voice Shadow in Sonic the Hedgehog 3

A “whoa” shows up extensively proper right below: Keanu Reeves, celebrity of the John Wick franchise business and a great deal of additional of our preferred movies (he’s likewise an artist, a comic overview writer, a meme motivation, and is often appearing to be house the wish), will certainly articulate Darkness in Sonic the Hedgehog 3.

Conjecture concerning that will certainly join the fan-favored personality in the best entrance in the preferred video recreation-adapted collection has actually been functioning significant, and currently the Hollywood Press Reporter points out “several resources” (and hat-guidelines the John Campea Present) verifying it’ll be Reeves. The personality was teased in the mid-credits of Sonic 2, and the film—due December 20—will certainly take into consideration area after the occasions of Sonic 2 as successfully as the coming close to Knuckles spin-off collection for Paramount+ (which strikes the banner upcoming 7 days, on April 26).

Finally week’s CinemaCon, Paramount’s discussion shared a bit a whole lot even more concerning the threequel THR keeps in mind that it included “the discovery that Dr. Robotnik, played by Jim Carrey, was dispirited and unfit following the tasks of Sonic 2, yet obtains his groove back once more many thanks to making Darkness the Hedgehog, a personality 1st released in the film video game titles in 2001’s Sonic Trip 2. The personality remains in several methods the anti-Sonic, dark and edgy while matching the hero’s powers.”

Sonic the Hedgehog 3 will certainly rejoin Sonic (Ben Schwartz), Knuckles (Idris Elba), and Tails (Colleen O’Shaughnessey)—as effectively as Jim Carrey as Dr. Robotnik, obviously, and James Marsden and Tika Sumpter as Sonic’s adoptive moms and dads.

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