'Knuckles' Punches Out One More Sneak Peek Before Premiere

  By the time you’re reading this, the 6-episode Knuckles series bridging the second and third Sonic the Hedgehog movies is most certainly out. But that didn’t stop Paramount+ from releasing its most action-packed sneak peek yet just two days before. As previously reported, estranged Robotnik associate The Buyer is in pursuit of Knuckles’s quills for their power. He's brought his mech as they meet for the first time right outside the bowling alley. The mech arms grab Knuckles utterly thrashing the echidna around, destroying the parked cars in the area. It is a very brief clip of about 45 seconds. The event series stars Idris Elba as Knuckles as he mentors Adam Pally’s Wade Whipple in the ways of the echidna warrior. However, while this is a spinoff, the series does not shoo away the fact that Knuckles now lives with the Wachowskis, leading to appearances from Sonic (voiced by Ben Schwartz), Tails (Colleen O’Shaughnessey), and Maddie (Tika Sumpter). The cast also includes  Cary Elw

Two New Clips For 'The Thundermans Return' Have Been Released

 


The premiere of the The Thundermans movie The Thundermans Return is just 4 days away on Nickelodeon and Paramount+. Exact runtimes haven’t been released, but its linear premiere runs until 8:45 PM, a full hour and 45 minutes, so that’s promising. Still, two new clips have been released since the one that aired following the Danger Force finale, and that brings it to about six and a half minutes. As long as no more clips come, it should be enough that not too much is given away.

The first clip is a short one-minute sneak peek at the family’s off-time in Metroburg. Phoebe and Max, played by Kira Kosarin and Jack Griffo, are more concerned with the online chatter and magazine covers they’re in and on respectively, to play board games with their youngest sister, Chloe, played by Maya LeClark. The excitement we saw from Nora, played by Addison Riecke and Billy, played by Diego Velazquez upon their homecoming to Hiddenville for a normal high school life, especially socially, comes from the family having become entirely functioning on superheroing and them not having any sort of education in Metroburg. Billy has to realize he was being manipulated by the villain Squidman and his henchman. Barb (Rosa Blasi) likes the normalcy, while Hank (Chris Tallman’s couch shenanigans at the homecoming gains context as he had never gotten accustomed to their Metroburg couch in the three years they’d been there. There’s a crime alert but Max accidentally grabs the TV remote instead of the one that opens the doors to the crime lab and walks into the wall.

The second clip is the full meteor strike first seen as the movie’s teaser. The T-Force (which is the family) arrives and hold a pose. Each use their codenames and powers to destroy meteors. But Chloe is definitely ready to move on from “Thunderbaby”. Max’s vanity issues that will cause them to botch the evening mission that sends them back to Hiddenville are already popping up, but don’t do enough to hamper this mission. Even still, one of the stray meteorites goes karmic and strikes him in the crotch while he’s not paying attention.

While the promise of familiar characters and locations has been largely fulfilled based on everything revealed so far, it will be several new, sinister villains ready to wreak havoc and be defeated by Phoebe and Max to get back in good standing among the heroes following the mishap that strips them of duties. Series creator and executive producer Jed Spingarn, an alumnus of Jimmy Neutron and Pinky and the Brain, also writes The Thundermans Return, which is directed by Trevor Kirschner, who previously directed episodes of the series. The other executive producers are Dan Cross and David Hoge. Sean W. Cunningham and Marc Dworkin helped develop the story. The film premieres on March 7 on Paramount+ at normal content traffic time, 2:01 or 3:01 AM Eastern, before its previously-mentioned 7 PM Eastern premiere on Nickelodeon. The leisure clip comes from Collider who only has it on their native player, while the meteor fight can be watched below. 



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