Paramount Pictures’ Sonic the Hedgehog franchise has found the voice for its Amy Rose.
Kirsten Bell has closed a deal to voice the character in Sonic the Hedgehog 4, the latest in the studio’s hit movie hit based on the Sega video games.
The franchise keeps adding bold-faced names to the voicecast with each entry. Bell now joins series stalwarts Ben Schwartz, who voices Sonic; Idris Elba, who voices Knuckles and joined in Sonic 2; and Keanu Reeves, who voices Shadow as of Sonic 3.
The live-action actors in the franchise are Jim Carrey as the villainous Dr. Robotnik, Lee Majdoub as Agent Stone, his loyal assistant, along with James Marsden and Tika Sumpter, who play Sonic’s adopted family parental figures. Most are expected to return to reprise their parts.
Jeff Fowler, who directed the previous three movies, is back in the helmer’s chair for this one. Neal H. Moritz and Toby Ascher of Original Films and Toru Nakahara return as producers.
Paramount has scheduled a March 19, 2027 release date for what has become one of its marquee money making film franchises of the 2020s. The three movies have surpassed $1 billion at the global box office, with the latest installment becoming the highest-grossing film in the series, earning over $490 million.
Plot details are being kept in the console.
In the games, Rose is a pink hedgehog and Sonic’s would-be girlfriend, whether he knows it or not.
Paramount has been using each movie’s mid-credits scene to tease the main character that would be featured in the follow-up movie. In Sonic 3’s credits, Sonic is being chased by an army of Metal Sonics, only to be suddenly saved by Rose.
Bell, who stars and exec produces the buzzy Netflix comedy series, Nobody Wants This, already has a thriving voicework career, thanks to playing Anna in the Disney’s Frozen movies. Those films earned her the distinction as a Disney Legend inside the studio and is a role which she will reprise for a third and fourth outing.
Bell is set to reprise her role as Joanne in season three of Nobody Wants This and will star as Mrs. Claus opposite David Harbour’s Santa Claus in Universal’s upcoming Christmas action comedy Violent Night 2.
Bell, who also hosts SAG-AFTRA’s Actors Awards March 1, is repped by CAA and Schreck Rose.
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