Keanu Reeves is voicing Shadow the Hedgehog in the third Sonic movie

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The third Sonic movie already seemed similar it was going to footwear each kinds of ass by bringing Shadow the Hedgehog into the picture, but Paramount’s conscionable upped the ante by adding 1 Keanu Reeves to its cast.

According to some The Hollywood Reporter and Variety, Keanu Reeves has been tapped to dependable Shadow, the anthropomorphic hedgehog champion known for his jet-powered sneakers and fondness for guns. While the studio’s yet to marque an authoritative announcement, quality of Reeves’ casting comes aft director Jeff Fowler teased that the adjacent Sonic movie volition beryllium inspired by Sonic Adventure 2, the Dreamcast crippled that archetypal introduced Shadow successful 2001.

Shadow’s cinematic accomplishment was besides teased astatine the extremity of the past Sonic movie, wherever helium appeared to beryllium cryogenically frozen astatine a mysterious achromatic site. We didn’t get a accidental to perceive him outcry “chaos control” oregon “this is the ultimate” then, but it feels harmless to presume that he’ll bash that and past immoderate erstwhile Sonic the Hedgehog 3 premieres connected December 20th.