How hard was this? It's pretty laughable how bad the first designs for Sonic came out; now they are postponing the movie to try and figure out how to make Sonic look like Sonic, which is kind of hilarious by itself. You could just, you know, make him look like himself.
Just to remind everyone, this is what the movie studio came up with intially. They called it "Sonic," I call it "freakish abomination from the eternal pits of black hell". This actually made it into the trailer. Crazy.
*Shudder*
Now, watch the trailer below, which has been lovingly doctored by Artur Baranov (you can check out his channel here). In the trailer, he uses, you know, Sonic the Hedgehog to make a commercial for a film that doesn't look like flaming trash. Someone should probably hire this guy and have him save Sonic.
Now I'm no movie exec, but my idea was instead of having this thing set on earth, which is stupid, to have it set in the Sonic world. Instead of giving him a human partner, have him meet Tails. They could kick each other's ass, then team up to beat Robotnik (who could still be Jim Carey, cuz I love him). What a crazy idea! Instead, let's have him fight the military.
That's just me. Watch the trailer below.