Hi, Jeff. How are you?
Hey, Scott. I'm good. Thanks. Nice to meet you.
You as well. You as well.
Congratulations on the sequel. It's.
It's really, really great fun.
Really, really enjoyed it.
And yeah, I wanted to ask you about doing a sequel, because not only is a sequel
a hard challenge, you're still dealing with a video game.
You're dealing with a video game that has sequels.
So where was your brain as a filmmaker?
At the start of the process with the sequel?
Oh, I mean, just very excited just to go right back into the same world.
And I feel like we really kind of hit our stride as a
as a as a group and as a team on the at the end of the first film.
And then to get that sort of all the great momentum that came from from it
being so well received around the world.
And for audiences to have been so excited about where we left the story, I mean,
Tails coming in
obviously
was a big sort of watershed moment for the fans.
And then to have Robotnik, you know, looking like he's
much more iconic self on the far corner of the universe and the mushroom planet
with the bald, bald head in the twirly big moustache
so just feeling like fans had already embraced kind of the story,
even without knowing what
the details were, where we were heading, that was just really great validation.
It really just gave us some momentum, some wind in our sails
just to go right back out and get to work on on another film.
Yeah, I read as well that Jim [Carrey] was maybe or maybe not.
Rumour has it keen on Maybe We're In The Fat Suit so that he was full.
Robotnik
I don't know if that's true or not, but were you satisfied the fact that
for the fans that you could say the Robotnik would be moustache, bald
hair or the rest of it, or was the fact that you ever, ever talked about?
Oh, well,
I would say it
was never talked about, but definitely most of the conversations
were really more of character based, more story based.
But but obviously the question of robotics.
Wait,
I can understand why that would be have some speculation from the fan community.
But, you know, it's like, you know,
the same reason why we didn't come out in the first film and give Robotnik
the big crazy moustache like he was a little bit
more of an origin story and it gave us somewhere to go.
I mean, it's funny because I also look back on, on, on that first film,
and Sonic didn't even have his red shoes for the first two thirds of the movie.
It was like about making that a really special movie moment.
So and that's just I think that's important.
I think on a long enough timeline, we'll have the opportunity to get to
so many things that the fans love.
As long as we get to knock on wood, keep getting to make these films.
And yeah, who's to say like there's lots of room for growth
with the characters and the good doctor included.
Indeed. I spoke to James [Marsden] and Ben [Schwartz] the other day
and I was telling him about my secret, subversive
thoughts for the film in terms of what's in the movie
that I thought might be a kind of, I don't know,
why have you
guys subversively saying who you may or may not want to have in the third film,
which is that you have references to a lot of Tom Cruise films
as Top
Gun, as Risky Business as a few other things as well.
When I told them about James was laughing, the fact that he'd forgotten
about the volleyball scene because on probably nothing in that,
I'm sure, but was, you know, is that I'm going to put it out there.
So I guess it's not so much a Tom Cruise thing is more of like were the movies
kind of from the eighties in the era where we were all kids and growing up
that were very influential and I think,
you know, definitely Risky Business and Top Gun and just Tom Cruise
as an actor obviously was very prolific and very influential
for four, four, four a lot of people.
So the fact that it found its way into our movie,
it's really more of a celebration of just the stuff we loved as kids and
getting to do our sort of sonic version of it in the films and celebrate that
with our little our little spikey haired hedgehog,
I guess is kind of how we ended up there.
Yeah, it does work for Paramount a lot.
That doesn't it. So you never know.
You never
think Sonic Mission Impossible crossover maybe.
You never know.
You never know. And obviously three is on the way.
Knuckles spin off as have you started on that yet?
Are you just waiting for this to out of the way for right now?
I'm just so excited to show everyone what we've been working on and just going to.
Yeah, hopefully just everyone will we'll have a great time
and just enjoy the sequel and all the horror and all the action,
all the humour it has and then yeah.
And then we'll and the world will go from there.
Fantastic.
Well, I really enjoyed it, so I hope it goes all very well for you.
That's great. I appreciate you guys being in.