Entertainment news website Deadline Hollywood reported on Friday that Jim Carrey (The Truman Show, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective) will play the villain Robotnik in Paramount Pictures’ upcoming Sonic the Hedgehog film.
The Hollywood Reporter reported in October that Paramount Pictures had acquired the rights to develop the film.
The film project first emerged in 2014 as a hybrid computer-animated and live-action feature film project by Sony and Marza Animation Planet.
In February 2016, Sega Sammy Holdings president and CEO Hajime Satomi revealed that Sony Pictures Entertainment was planning the film.