I can already hear his delivery
We aren’t going to share every single casting announcement for a video game turned movie or show (see: the snowballing lineup for HBO’sThe Last of Us), but when we’re dealing with Idris Elba as Knuckles inSonic the Hedgehog 2, yeah,that’s a post.
The actor just tweeted it out, like you do in 2021, and reactions poured in. I’m into it.
https://twitter.com/idriselba/status/1425174698007138305
We know and love Elba from, well, a lot of projects —The Wire,Luther,Thor,Pacific Rim, and recentlyThe Suicide Squad, to rattle off a few. (I know Chris will want me to throw in aMolly’sGamemention too, so consider it a done deal.) And in 2022, he’ll be Knuckles. This is one of those out-of-left-field choices that makes total sense once you think through it. I can already “hear him,” as it were, and I think the voice will fit the rest of the cast.
We had heard the famed echidna would be inSonic the Hedgehog 2due to set photos and also a movie synopsis, but I never would’ve guessed he’d be voiced by Idris Elba. I’m not mad! It’s an inspired choice. There’s also the meme factor, which is to say that Idris Elba is highly quotable in his best roles and I expect the sequel to lean hard into that fact.
Question is, who are they going to land on for Tails? Is Colleen O’Shaughnesseya lock?
I feel like pretty much everyone is coming into the secondSonicmovie with honest-to-goodness expectations, which is a weird feeling when you think back on theSonic redesign saga. We’ll see if the sequel rises to the occasion on June 04, 2025.
