Los Angeles, Apr 16 (IANS): After breaking bones and stabbing individuals with only a pencil within the ‘John Wick’ franchise, Hollywood star Keanu Reeves has a brand new activity ready within the wings.
The actor will voice the character of Shadow in ‘Sonic the Hedgehog 3’. He joins a forged that features Ben Schwartz as Sonic, in addition to Jim Carrey because the villainous Dr Robotnik, stories Selection.
A spokesperson for Paramount Footage, the studio behind the movie, declined to remark.
Aa per Selection, within the video games, Shadow, an anthropomorphic hedgehog (his fur is black, while Sonic’s is blue), is an antihero of types. He’s additionally typically an antagonist to Sonic.
Keanu’s credit embrace ‘Pace’, ‘Bram Stoker’s Dracula’ and ‘My Personal Personal Idaho’, in addition to the ‘Matrix’ franchise. He’ll subsequent seem within the ‘John Wick’ spinoff, ‘Ballerina’, reverse Ana de Armas.
Reeves can also be set to co-star in ‘Good Fortune’ alongside Aziz Ansari, Seth Rogen, Keke Palmer and Sandra Oh.
Jeff Fowler, who oversaw the primary two ‘Sonic’ motion pictures, is returning because the director of the most recent sequel. Neal H. Moritz, Toby Ascher, Toru Nakahara and Hitoshi Okuno will produce ‘Sonic 3’, which is able to open in theatres on December 20, 2024.
Reeves’ casting in ‘Sonic 3’ was first reported on ‘The John Campea Present’.
The franchise is one among Paramount’s most profitable, with the mixed international field workplace for ‘Sonic the Hedgehog’ and ‘Sonic the Hedgehog 2’ standing at $725.2 million. The studio can also be making a spin-off sequence, ‘Knuckles’, that may premiere on Paramount+.
