SONIC THE HEDGEHOG Star Jim Carrey Weighs In On Fan Backlash And The Titular Character's Redesign

This is a case by case basis sort of thing. I don't think fans should be able to raise Hell and have something changed (there will always be a group of people trying to get something changed).

However, in this particular case, the creators took a chance by redesigning a character that has essentially not changed since he was introduced, and people didn't like it. I'm with the people on this one. I don't think it would have gone over well if they kept that design for the movie's release, but now that's ANOTHER risk they're taking.

Do you risk releasing a movie as-is and hope you make $$ on it? Or do you put more money in to re-design the character, and hope you make enough with the improvements to cover the increased cost? There have been several films in recent years that dumped a lot into re-shoots that didn't end up working out in the end financially.

He would have a point of Paramount decided NOT to change it, but they did because they knew the [frick]ed up and they knew they put the film's box office at risk.

This movie will be a lesson on "Just because you can, doesn't mean you should"

Social media is just one big test audience for creators ... nothing they haven’t done before in the past, just free and on a much larger scale.

Sounds like Carey himself is embarrassed by the movie and this is his chance to disavow any responsibility for it's tanking, if it tanks. The studio was still early in on the FX when the first trailer came out, and a fully CGI character is the easiest to replace with a redesigned character since the character wasn't on set, all it costs is a bit of development time and a whole lot of rendering time. The story and the pacing and the totality of the film isn't significantly different just because you refine the design of Sonic.

Other than the design I think the sonic movie could be fun but then again I said the same thing about captain marvel and that shit was boring

In principle, I kinda agree, but filmakers also gotta make it a priority to be keenly aware of the fanbase and their expectations of the characters and can thus avoid this needless backlash.
I actually DO appreciate the fans having some sway simply because a whole lotta films based on comics and popular Sci-Fi/Fantasy have come out in the last 20 years as technology enables the impossible to be within reach.
The studios and directors have often tarnished the roots of several characters just to put their own spin on the mythos, whereas so many of us just want accurate portrayals brought to life in fantastic and creative ways without needless distortion.

Sam Raimi's Spider-Man films -great, but fall short on so many things, especially in how they characterized Peter Parker and MJ. Seems the director injected too much of his personality, not that a director can't do this with characters, just doesn't seem right when it's for a 50-year-old character who's quite different. Now Spider-Man movies ever since have recognized that Peter Parker should be much more lively than Raimi's version.

X-Men movies. Bryan Singer wanted his own spin and changed some things up but eventually realized how easy it is to make characters look like they do in the comics and therefore please even more of the fans.

Ridley Scott, great director, did something I wished for when I saw Gladiator in 2000: made a movie about MOSES. But he injected his own atheistic worldviews into characters like Moses and Pharaoh, which...dealing with incredibly religious characters from the ancient Middle East/Egypt, stuck out like a sore thumb, and the movie generally sucked eggs. A story as well-known as that of MOSES, ya just don't screw with it like that, same with Darren Aronofsky's bizarre NOAH film, although to be honest, that still betrays some clever filmaking and a great score by Clint Mansell.

So yeah...filmakers, when dealing with super popular characters and stories should absolutely pay attention to expectations.

This is something I've thought of as well. I definitely wasn't a fan of the design, but I have my own reasons for not wanting to see this movie, the design being the last of them. I have to ask, are the people that cried foul over this really going to pay the money to see it now that they've vowed to correct their "mistake"? My guess os, Probably not. The real lesson here is, never apologize to the mob.

If they would have done it right the first time, then there wouldn't be an issue. I'll at least see it now, wasn't planning on it before lol. Also everyone watch Kidding! Jim Carrey should have won an Emmy for Jeff Pickles!