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.

Plot
A few weeks after the events of the Space Colony ARK incident, Sonic the Hedgehog and his friends have been legally banned by the Guardian Units of Nations (G.U.N.) as well as humans. This is because they were the cause of thousands of deaths on Prison Island as well as in Central City such as with the GUN Truck that killed hundred of people and the Black Arms and Black Doom. The government as well as military general and leader of Area 55 Thomas Mackerel have ceased all operations with them. After almost preventing a train from falling, Sonic is sued for collateral damage after saving the train as well as injuries from the passengers. After Doctor Ivo Robotnik got a death sentence and died from an electric chair, his son Julian Robotnik swore to take revenge on Sonic, plotting a plan to kill him as well as his friends too.

Meanwhile in the year 2024, Shadow the Hedgehog receives news of his ally/partner Rouge the Bat being captured by Julian Robotnik in his base White Acropolis after trying to retrieve the Scepter of Darkness. Shadow invades the base and finds Rouge in the middle of accomplishing her mission but then finds Julian and his new henchman Egg Robo (who was the previous henchman for Ivo), who sends his robots to attack them. Shadow and Rouge fight the robots over the scepter but it is shattered after it falls down on the floor, releasing Mephiles the Dark, an evil entity. He introduces himself to the two of them and hints at the past history that they have shared. Mephiles uses a time warp similar to Shadow's Chaos Control to transport to a future on the brink of collaspe. They are confused, but then they find disturbing answers about the past. They even come across a dusty inactive E-123 Omega. They discover they are in the distant future destroyed by Iblis.

200 years in the future in 2213, the world is in an apocolyptic state as it has been wrecked and destroyed by what is known as the Flames of Disaster. Among two people who have survived are Silver the Hedgehog and Blaze the Cat, who use their telekinetic powers on a common basis. Silver and Base are teleported to a mysterious base where they are then greeted by Mephiles, who introduces himself as a nice person. Mephiles explains to Silver the time the "Iblis Trigger" was unleashed, saying that Sonic the Hedgehog was the cause of the trigger. He gives him and Blaze a Chaos Emerald, showing a vision of Sonic in a burning town looking evil. Determined to defeat Sonic and save his world, Mephiles teleports Blaze and Silver in 2024 where the Iblis Trigger is alive. Silver is seperated from Blaze and Mephiles. Silver runs into Amy Rose along the way, who doesn't confuse him for Sonic. She develops a friendship with Silver and helps him look for the person he is trying to get, not realizing that it is Sonic.

In the city of Soleanna, the town is ruled by 17 year old Princess Elise the Third who the keeper of the secret of the Flames of Disaster which involve the chaos emeralds. The citizens of Soleanna are celebrating the Festival of the Sun. While lighting the ceremonial torch, Elise gets a hallucination about Soleanna in flame because of an demonic creature composed of molten magma. Fireworks are launched into the air, but the fireworks are destroyed as several missles hit them and a giant ship comes down. Julian, Egg Robo, and his other army of robots arrive and reveals his plans to kidnap Elise to obtain the Flames of Disaster's secret, which she obviously denies. Before Julian can get a hold of it, Sonic arrives and destroys almost all his robots and carries Elise out of the mess. While Sonic is running down below, Silver stands on a roof saying that he found the "Iblis Trigger" with Amy being confused that he's targeting Sonic. Sonic carries Elise out until they're cornered by Julian's robot