Surprise! Sonic the Hedgehog Movie Producers Are Making a Live-Action Toys 'R' Us Movie

Here's a condemnation I ne'er thought I'd write: there's a live-action Toys "R" Us movie successful the works.

According to Variety, Story Kitchen — the squad down beauteous overmuch each video crippled movie adaptation you've seen recently, including the Sonic the Hedgehog movies — hopes to "capture that puerility wonderment successful a modern, fast-paced escapade that taps into the Toys 'R' Us brand’s relevance crossed its much than 70 years successful the artifact industry."

“Toys 'R' Us is simply a taste touchstone that continues impacting the kid successful each of america today,” said Story Kitchen co-founders Dmitri M. Johnson and Mike Goldberg. “As '80s kids who considered Toys 'R' Us 1 of the astir magical places connected Earth, we’re honored to spouse to make a movie that volition seizure the tone of adventure, creativity and nostalgia that Toys 'R' Us represents.”

Somehow Toys 'R' Us returned. Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images.

The movie is described arsenic taking inspiration from Night astatine the Museum, Back to the Future, and Big, arsenic good arsenic different toy-to-movie crossover franchises similar Barbie. As yet, there's nary steadfast details astir its cast, but Johnson, Goldberg, Timothy I. Stevenson, and Elena Sandoval volition nutrient for Story Kitchen alongside Kim Miller Olko, who produces for Toys "R" Us Studios.

“As Toys "R" Us archetypal film, this task is an breathtaking accidental to bring the magic of our marque to the large screen,” added Miller Olko, president of Toys "R" Us Studios. “It volition beryllium a travel arsenic boundless arsenic play itself, evoking the electrical consciousness of wonderment that is the essence of Toys "R" Us. This communicative volition seizure the imagination, escapade and joyousness that has made Toys "R" Us a destination for kids of each ages.”

Last year, Story Kitchen announced a movie adaptation of Square Enix's Just Cause, with Blue Beetle manager Ángel Manuel Soto signed on. It's besides adapting Dredge: The Movie, Kingmakers, and Sleeping Dogs.

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