It Turns Out Redoing The CGI For The Whole Sonic Movie Was Quite Expensive!
(Here is a recap of the Sonic trailer mayhem ICYMI)
I'll start by saying this: I thought the 'Justice League' mustache reshoot debacle was bad. Spending $3 Million of your $300 million dollar budget just to add some more Cavill superman scenes? Seems pretty excessive to me! Now, it looks like they were basically spending pocket change compared to these motherfuckers at Sonic, who spent 1/3 of their original budget on CGI reshoots! I'm officially woke on this entire scenario.
If he is not the type of person that responds well to negative feedback, I highly doubt he would of remade the entire fucking movie. So now that I've established I don't believe Jeff Fowler had no idea the reaction would go this way, lets move on to the fact that there is almost no conceivable scenario where a movie studio approves a $35 million dollar addiction to a budget. Period. Full stop. This goes for literally ANY movie from any director in any number of tentpole franchises. For that to get approved for a FUCKING SONIC THE HEDGEHOG MOVIE?!?!?
Video game movies are among the worst critically performing movies across all genres, and only a few of them manage to pull a good ROI. Recently, 'Detective Pikachu' and 'Rampage' both gathered a very solid box office thanks to having stars like The Rock and Ryan Reynolds attached to them. This Sonic movie, however, has stars like uhhh James Marsden and Jim Carrey. Not exactly in the same ballpark. It's also fucking Sonic. It's also 1/3rd of the original budget. It's also probably a shitty movie. NONE OF IT MAKES SENSE.
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