Sonic the Hedgehog is a 2020 action-adventure comedy film based on the video game series. The first in the Sonic film series, it was directed by Jeff Fowler, written by Pat Casey and Josh Miller, and stars James Marsden and Jim Carrey. Ben Schwartz voices Sonic, a blue anthropomorphic hedgehog who can run at supersonic speeds and teams up with small town sheriff Tom Wachowski (James Marsden) to stop the mad scientist Dr. Ivo Robotnik (Jim Carrey).