Keanu Reeves is Shadow the Hedgehog in the third Sonic movie, fulfilling fan casting dreams

I can’t quite say I called it, because Keanu Reeves was only second on my list of likely Hollywood heavyweights to be cast as Shadow the Hedgehog. But boy was I close. The Hollywood Reporter confirmed today that Mr. Wick himself is playing the big bad in the third Sonic the Hedgehog film, according to “multiple sources.”

Shadow the Hedgehog is famous for several things, most of them hilariously bad lines of dialogue being delivered badly in Sonic Adventure 2 and his own starring game, 2005’s Shadow the Hedgehog. We’ll see if Reeves can dig deep to deliver the anti-hero’s most famous expression “This is like taking candy from a baby, which is fine by me.” It’s a tougher sell than Keanu’s trademark “whoa,” but hey, he did Shakespeare too back in the ’90s. Surely he can swing it.