Silver and Blaze

Now we’re moving away from wishful thinking and into “actually possible” territory. Silver the Hedgehog, the time-traveling telekinetic hero from the future, seems like a shoo-in for a future Sonic live-action movie. If he does show up, I can’t imagine him not being accompanied by Blaze the Cat, his companion from the future in his debut in Sonic ‘06 (though we’ll ignore the way Sega retconned her origins and decided she’s from another dimension, because we don’t need to make Sonic a multiverse story this early into the cinematic universe).

I expect this pair to show up in the near future because some of the groundwork has already been laid. One of the more baffling parts of the Knuckles series featured a reference to Iblis, a major villain in Sonic ‘06 and a central figure in the two’s story. The show made some embellishments to Iblis’ nature, so the next movie probably won’t be a 1:1 recreation of Sonic ‘06, but with both Iblis and Shadow joining the live-action universe this year, Paramount has a lot of the pieces in place to make the next movie a retelling of one of the more controversial games in Sonic’s portfolio.