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Paramount Pictures and Sega Sammy Group announced in 2021 Knuckles, a television series starring Knuckles the Echidna that serves as a spin-off to Paramount's Sonic the Hedgehog films. Idris Elba was set to reprise his role as the voice of Knuckles from Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022). [2] Sonic film producer Toby Ascher served as showrunner. [3]
Both also made appearances in the spin-off IDW Publishing Sonic the Hedgehog 2: The Official Movie Pre-Quill comic, while Maddie was a guest star in the first episode of the live-action spin-off show, Knuckles. [311] Tom was also a playable skin in the Sonic the Hedgehog Minecraft DLC, with Maddie making a cameo appearance. [312]
In 2019, he became the current voice of Knuckles the Echidna in the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise, beginning with Team Sonic Racing. [1] He is a member of SAG-AFTRA and the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP). He is represented by Dean Panaro Talent in Los Angeles, where he currently resides.
Paramount+ has set a Friday, April 26 release date for all six episodes of Knuckles, a spinoff series picking up immediately after the events of 2022’s Sonic the Hedgehog 2.
The series is set between Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (2024) and includes easter eggs to set-up the events and narrative of the latter. [17] [6] The series also explores the ramifications of the events in Sonic the Hedgehog 2, particularly G.U.N. (Guardian Units of Nations) gaining access to Sonic and Knuckles' quills and rings.
After the trailer for the 2020 Sonic the Hedgehog film was released in 2019 and Sonic's design was strongly criticised, Hesse was brought in as the lead artist to redesign Sonic. [11] Hesse returned for the sequel as the character design lead, storyboard supervisor, and co-producer. He was also a co-producer on the TV spin-off series Knuckles.
The Sonic the Hedgehog Archie Comics series contained various references to the OVA; in issue #101 the character Metal Robotnik appears in an alternate universe story, although his coloring altered from red to blue. Knuckles the Echidna also dons his hat from the film numerous times across the comic's run. [13]
The action film "A Mouthful of Knuckles" is slated to be shot later this year in Mansfield. Teaming up on the film are, from left, Tom Nagel, Zach Scheerer, Jeff Miller, Sheldon Lettich and David ...