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Trivia: SPOILERS: There are two credits sequences. In the first sequence, Sonic encounters a group of Metal Sonics that try to kill him. However, he is saved by Amy Rose, a character from the games. A post-credits scene shows Shadow's feet walking up to a crater where one of his gauntlets landed, revealing that he survived his apparent demise.

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Trivia: Dr. Robotnik's main ship is shaped like a crab. In the video games, Robotnik creates multiple enemies that resemble crabs.

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Trivia: The mascots at the restaurant are based on the Chaos, a race from the video games.

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Trivia: During the race at the start of the film, Sonic runs by a goal sign, making it spin. He did the same thing at the end of every level in the original video games.

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Trivia: Prior to release, the film was seen as something of a "last hurrah" and last hope for Sony's Spider-Man cinematic universe after a string of critical and commercial failures, leaving the future of the franchise up in the air. Unfortunately, the film ended up having one of the worst opening weekends of all time for a big-budget comic book movie, with only $11 million in domestic sales.

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Trivia: During the final montage, when Cassandra says the line "standing up for what you believe," we see a shot of a camera swooping upwards towards a building's rooftop. The shot of the building is actually reused footage from the movie "Spider-Man 2," in a scene where Peter suits up and swings upwards in an alleyway. The only difference is that "Madame Web" sped up the shot ever so slightly.

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Trivia: When Jim Carrey announced he was considering retiring from acting, he jokingly said he would consider returning to act if "angels" delivered a script "written in gold ink." In order to get Carrey back for this film, director Jeff Fowler had a copy of the script made that was printed in actual 24 karat golden ink to show how serious he was about the movie and the character.

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Trivia: Director Jeff Fowler, who directed all three "Sonic the Hedgehog" movies, actually worked on the game "Shadow the Hedgehog" as an animation director. Given his past with the character, he was excited and honoured to be the one who got to introduce Shadow on the big screen.

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Trivia: Following the release of "Sonic the Hedgehog 2", co-star Jim Carrey stated that he was considering retiring from acting, as he felt he had "done enough" in the film industry and was becoming somewhat burned out. However, he eventually agreed to star in this film because he loves playing the evil-genius Dr. Robotnik. Carrey also laughingly admitted that the huge paycheck he got was one of the deciding factors, especially because he "buys a lot of stuff."

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Trivia: Abel Ferrara, director of the film "Bad Lieutenant," was incredibly angry with the filmmakers, as he felt like they were stealing his concept and assumed it was a straight-up remake. He even went as far as to publicly say he hoped everyone involved in this film would be killed in an explosion. He later met with "Port of Call: New Orleans" director Werner Herzog, and they almost immediately made peace, with Herzog saying they spent most of the meeting laughing about the situation.

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Trivia: Though sometimes billed as a sequel or remake to the movie "Bad Lieutenant," the films are not connected in any way beyond featuring a corrupt law-enforcement officer as the lead character. Director Werner Herzog tried to get the title changed because he didn't like the idea of it being compared to the original film since it was completely unrelated... and also because he hadn't even seen the original film.

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Trivia: Future comedy star Bill Hader was a production assistant on the film and was the one who hit James Franco on the head with the piece of "rock" that knocked him out during the Unity Day battle about midway through the film. Years later, Franco hosted SNL and immediately recognized Hader as the guy who hit him in the head.

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Trivia: The director has stated that the first cut of the film was over four hours long and that over an hour of material was cut to get it down to just under three hours.

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Trivia: In order to show that Eddie has severe hang-ups about his relationship with his mother, both his mother (in flashbacks) and his wife (briefly seen in the opening) are played by the same actress, Molly Atkinson, albeit in significantly different makeup and wardrobe to make it subtler.

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Trivia: Bill Skarsgård has a lazy eye that he was able to train himself to focus in the same direction as his other eye. Thus, when Pennywise's eyes look in different directions, it's not an effect... Skarsgård is just letting his lazy eye naturally drift. His co-star Billy Hader didn't realise this and asked Skarsgård how the effect of his eyes focusing in different directions was achieved, assuming it was CGI. Skarsgård replied, "Oh, you mean this?" and let his drift sideways, horrifying Hader.

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Trivia: Star Dwayne Johnson reportedly pushed to have the film be shown in IMAX theatres after seeing Christopher Nolan's film "Oppenheimer" in IMAX. Johnson reasoned that "Red One" in IMAX would be "game over," and would make the film a huge hit. The film ended up bombing, and Johnson's comments were widely mocked online, with some labelling him "delusional" for trying to compare the releases of "Red One" and "Oppenheimer." (Though in his defence, he never directly compared the films themselves.)

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Trivia: Before release, the film became symbolic of a strange issue for cinema-goers, with many cinemas stating that singing along with the film wasn't allowed as it's disruptive to other people who came to watch the movie. "Wicked" co-star Cynthia Erivo and action-movie star Dwayne Johnson stated that they support singing along with movies, drawing extremely mixed responses, with some praising them, but many more harshly criticizing them for supporting behaviour that could be seen as extremely rude.

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Trivia: Star Ariana Richards is given an "introducing" credit despite it being the fifth film to feature her. She later clarified that it technically was her first film, but the production ran long in part due to the effects, and four other films she worked on came out first.

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Trivia: Royal Dano plays a goofy old man who encounters aliens with his dog. Two years prior, in "Killer Klowns from Outer Space," he similarly played a goofy old man who encounters aliens with his dog. (Albeit, his fate in that film was much different than in this film.)

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Trivia: The writer stated on his Letterboxd account that the movie started out as a joke, where he'd pitch a movie to friends as "What if Frosty the Snowman came to life, but was a super-hot dude?" before hitting them with the punchline, "It's called 'Hot Frosty!'" But after repeatedly telling the joke, he fell in love with the idea despite how absurd it was and ended up writing it as a script.

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