Edited image of Toby Ascher during Knuckles interview
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Everyone's favorite echidna is taking a new trainee under his wing in Knuckles. After making his debut in Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Knuckles is taking the lead in the upcoming Paramount+ spinoff show as he struggles to adjust to his new life on Earth, namely lacking a purpose with no major enemies arising.
Knuckles Was Almost Introduced In The Sonic Franchise Earlier With the show giving the character the spotlight, Ascher reflected on the initial discussions of when Knuckles was to be introduced in the Sonic franchise, recalling how there were talks to bring him and Tails on for the first movie.
That led to a conversation with Idris Elba, who really loved working on the movie and grew up a Knuckles fan, and especially doesn't always get the chance to do comedy in the way that he did in Sonic 2 and in the Knuckles series. He did a great run in The Office, which we loved, but is traditionally an action star. So, he was really excited about being able to do more Knuckles and tell sort of a bigger story centered on that character.
I think that allowed us to probably take more chances comedically than we have in the past on the two Sonic movies. At least, for me, I think Knuckles is the most laugh-out-loud, funniest version of this franchise that we've had, and in a lot of ways reminds me of some of these '90s comedies that I grew up on, whether it's Happy Gilmore, or other things that live in that space.
For example, Sonic 1 happened, and there was this huge action sequence at the end of Sonic 1 in San Francisco, and half of San Francisco was destroyed. So, we really wanted to tell the story in Sonic 2 of the emergence of G.U.N., which is an organization that pretty much has been created because of the fact that Sonic ripped apart San Francisco, and there has to be a reaction in a grounded world to that. So, what came about in Knuckles, which is really interesting, is a further emergence of G.U.
And as someone who grew up as a fan of a lot of different franchises, and different pieces of IP, my favorite ones were always the ones where they kind of did that, which was the comic book Marvel Universe. An incident happens, and then the reaction to the incident is the next story. So, the fact that we get to do that kind of giant world building in the Sonic franchise is awesome.
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