Entertainment news source The Hollywood Reporter revealed on Monday that Paramount Pictures has acquired the rights to develop a film for Sega’s Sonic the Hedgehog franchise.
The film project first emerged in 2014 as a hybrid computer-animated and live-action feature film project by Sony and Marza Animation Planet, which cited Moritz as producer.
The latest game release in the franchise is Sonic Mania, which shipped on August 15 in the West, and August 16 in Japan.
Productions, premiered on Cartoon Network in 2014 and was accompanied by two new games: Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric for Wii U and Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal for Nintendo 3DS.