How Sonic 3 went bigger with Shadow's origin story and 2 Jim Carreys: 'Everything is pumped up' (exclusive)

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'Sonic the Hedgehog 3' goes bigger than the last two entries with a Shadow origin story and two Jim Carrey characters. Star Ben Schwartz and director Jeff Fowler explain how 'everything is pumped up for this one.'

Ben Schwartz and director Jeff Fowler take EW inside their third foray, including another video game element brought to life.Nick is an entertainment journalist based in New York, NY. If you like pugs and the occasional blurry photo of an action figure, follow him on Twitter @NickARomano.movies, began his career as a character animator in visual effects for Blur Studios, which worked on the Sonic games.

"The CG is even more impressive. Everything is pumped up for this one," Schwartz says in a separate conversation. " Toby talks about us having a lot of Avengers moments, which I love, but it's very much that everything is bigger in this movie and more impressive."in 2019, or as he calls it,"the trailer that shall not be named.

"That's the challenge of these films," Fowler explains of re-contextualizing story points in the games to align with their premise. "It's always to take what has come before in terms of the video games and the comics and all that. How do we take the essence of what the fans love and merge it with this movie treatment that we created?"

"Do you realize how badly I want to meet Keanu Reeves?" Schwartz, who recorded his voiceover for Sonic separate from the cast, exclaims. "I've been pushing so hard. I haven't even met Idris yet, and we've done two movies and a TV show together!" Knuckles , Sonic , and Tails at Chao Gardens restaurant in 'Sonic the Hedgehog 3'.

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