Sonic the Hedgehog: 200 Years

 Sonic the Hedgehog: 200 Years  is an 2024 American live-action/animated sci-fi action comedy film based off the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise created by Sega and Sonic Team. As a sequel to the 2013 film Sonic the Hedgehog Chaos and its 2015 sequel TV show Project Shadow, the film is directed by Brad Bird, who returns to the franchise after Triple Trouble, and the director of Chaos Peter Jackson with a screenplay by Bird and former Sonic the Hedgehog 2001-09 writer Shiro Maekawa. It is the second film produced by Sega Movies that is not apart of the Sega Cinematic Universe. The film stars Denzel Washington, Isabella Sermon, Robert Pattinson, Wayne Knight, Andrew Garfield, Mark Wahlberg, Charlie Day, and Eddie Murphy. Adapting the story of Sonic the Hedgehog 2006 and turning it into a film, the story follows the titual character (Pattinson) as he goes far away with Princess Elise the Third (Sermon) to stop Doctor Robotnik's son Julian (Knight) from kiddnaping her while Shadow (also Pattinson) and new character Silver the Hedgehog (Garfield) battle Solaris, an ancient evil entity who is pursued by Julian as well as Sonic and Elise exploring new places. Another new enemy is Mephiles the Dark, who tricks Silver into thinking that Sonic is the villain.

200 Years was originally announced in 2013 and set for an release in October 2017 as the first film of Chapter 2 of the Sega Cinematic Universe. However, after 20th Century Studios and Peter Liguori left Sega after a contract deal, the film entered development hell as it was bounced around with different studios to distribute it, even almost getting canceled several times. It wasn't until Paramount Pictures and Sony Pictures Entertainment acquired the rights to the film in February 2020. It was offically announced in production with Brad Bird returning and Sony's animation division Sony Pictures Animation set to produce. Amy Pascal and Tom Kalinske were announced to produce among a multitude of others including Naoto Ohshima and Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. Michael Barrett the cinematographer announced that production would start in August of the same year with an release date of November 2023 however the COVID-19 pandemic had an affect on the film's production. Eventually, production on 200 Years restarted in September 2021.