Six months ago came the official announcement that Keanu Reeves had been cast as the voice of Shadow in the upcoming “Sonic the Hedgehog 3” at Paramount Pictures. Reeves has only been briefly heard in the trailers with the character seemingly serving as the main antagonist of the new film. However, don’t expect this to be a phoned-in performance.
The film’s director Jeff Fowler appeared on Day 2 of Sonic Revolution’s Shadow Revolution online stream (via ) and said Reeves was very dedicated to the role and to fans of the character. As transcribed by : “He thinks the character is awesome and he definitely understood what we were going for and he was very excited to do his version of it. Like all the cast, [he] really wants to get it right and really cares.
He would give us so many different versions of line readings and just want to keep going. It was not sort of showing up and reading the script into a microphone. He really wanted to create a very fan faithful version of the character.
He did research. In our first meeting, he very clearly had gone and done his homework, which was awesome. I can’t say enough wonderful things about Keanu and what he brought to the character and the experience of making this movie.
I think people are going to really, really love his version of Shadow.” Producer Toby Ascher adds that the new film will be a “giant, fun, incredible movie” that will take a lot of elements from the “Sonic Adventure 2” game primarily along with.