Scott. What's up, man? How are you?
How are you? Nice to see you again.
Scott and I hung out a lot.
Scott is at your bed in the background.
Maybe. Yes.
Okay. Great. Fantastic.
And I've got a bit of blue justice going on.
I love its perfect. All good guys. Congratulations on the film.
Thank you.
Thank you very much, sir.
It is so much fun. It's so much fun.
I had absolute, absolute blast. Sequels...
Very, very tough at the best of times.
Did you guys feel that with this?
That when you got the scripts
that they were kind of on to something and this would be as good if not bad?
And then the first one.
Yeah, well, you just never know.
I never know where they're going to go with it.
You always feel like, okay, what do what do we do? Now?
We kind of feel like we blew it out a little bit on the first film.
And then, you know, you get
you get the feeling that the studio is going
to let us have more fun this next time around.
But where are we going to go?
And I get the impression, of course, that Robotnik wasn't gone for good,
so he's going to be back in some shape or form.
And you know how but when you read the script like this is
this is how you do it.
This is how you expand the universe and just kind of blow up
the scale of the whole thing and, and turbocharge it all.
But then, like, you just like seeing the movie for the first time,
it's one thing reading the script.
It's another thing
when the animation is all put together and the scenes are all cut together.
It's completely different and it's bigger and more vast. And
more entertaining than I anticipated.
So I'm very proud of it.
Yeah. You can't keep Jim Carrey down.
Come on now. He needs Oh, come on. You get Jim Carrey for a movie.
You keep Jim Carrey in the movie. As many movies as you could do.
And then you introduce
even more CG characters and more amazing people voicing them.
Yeah.
Ben, for you, I know you're
a big fan of the video games, so have Tails and Knuckles
and all these amazing kind of odes to the to the second game.
Because the second game was actually the first game that I play when I was a kid.
I think the far superior game out of the first two. That was literally what I was about to say.
The far superior game.
I'm glad you agree, but there's so many nuggets from the from
the games in there and it felt like playing the game as a movie.
What was it like for you as a fantasy all put together that they'd managed to
kind of get?
It was awesome
because we introduced at the end of the first one,
we introduced Tails and the idea that OK, Tails is opening up.
That means someone from their world is coming in here.
And the idea of Knuckles, that means two
people from Sonic's world is coming in here.
So as someone who is a fan of the games, there are so many Easter eggs
in this movie.
I mean, talking about locations where we shoot,
but also the exact poses that these characters do like.
And also there's there's aspects of us being underwater.
And if you ever put a sonic game,
you know how terrifying it is to be underwater a sonic any time in any game.
So it's like it's a dream come true.
I get to also as a, as a nerdy kid, I get to do scenes with tails, Colleen [O’Shaughnessey]
and Idris [Elba] as knuckles.
So it's like it's it's great.
I think that's what they do handled so
well after we got greenlit for the second one,
they just blew it out, made it bigger. And we're like, you know what?
We're going to take care of the fans even more.
And if you don't know the video games, we're going to introduce you to what
this world could be that some of these gamers already know about.
And so they did an amazing job. It's very exciting.
Yeah.
I love the air bubbles.
I mean, come on, you got if we're underwater, you got to have some air bubbles.
Just finally, before I go, you're obviously doing the third one,
which is which is fantastic already and obviously going to get the spin off.
I wonder if you notice the fact that there's a lot of subtle hints
to someone and their films in this film that I don't know
if subliminally you're trying to get that person be in that that film.
There's no very risky business.
There's a little bit.
Oh, If.
Yeah, if you need someone.
Well, let's. See. What's the other one?
What's the other Tom Cruise reference?
So there was a risky business one. Yep.
It's a top gun one, I think, in that somewhere.
Oh, I guess. I guess playing volleyball.
The high five, maybe. Yeah.
Okay. Yeah, yeah. You know.
I don't... there's like separate movies being filmed, right?
The live action and his stuff. Did you know that when you were doing it?
I know.
Now that you're bringing it up,
I would have been like, okay, when they have.
It's a very it's.
You're in that scene.
It's when Shamar Yeah.
Like, Oh, right, right.
And then afterwards, they go like that.
Pressure on James yeah, that's right. Yes.
I kept saying, hey, I'm just put out their third movie.
Jim Carrey and Tom Cruise, I think.
Great and interesting. Great. Sure.
Yeah, yeah.
One of the top ten movie stars of all time?
Sure. That would be fantastic.
Well, also, he works pretty much exclusively for Paramount, so it's.
True.
It seems like you're setting this up.
Do you are you Tom Cruise's agent?
I mean, it doesn't it doesn't mean that I didn't just.
Tom Cruise, gentlemen love it. So it's good to talk to you.
This movie was fantastic. Good luck. Thanks a lot.
Appreciate it.