Rumors have been swirling that Keanu Reeves will be playing Shadow the Hedgehog in the upcoming film Sonic the Hedgehog 3 and Idris Elba is breaking his silence about it, GamesRadar+ reported. Or is he?

There has been no official announcement and Knuckles star Idris Elba is making like an echidna by guarding the franchise's secret.

“I heard the rumors. Yeah, I know nothing,” Elba told the entertainment website's interview with him for the upcoming Paramount+ series.

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“But wow, Keanu, yeah? Big tings,” he said.

The John Campea Show on YouTube and The Hollywood Reporter stated that John Wick himself will be playing Shadow, the Ultimate Lifeform. He was first seen in one of the post-credits scene in Sonic 2.

Ever the spiny anteater (aka echidna), Elba said, “I'm not allowed to say what I know about Sonic 3.”

“Everything's in increments, right? So if that [hand in the middle] was Sonic 1, that [hand higher up] is Sonic 2 then Sonic 3 [puts hands even higher]. Ding ding ding ding,” he elaborated.

The next project in the Sonic-verse in Elba's spinoff series Knuckles. The series has six episodes, and Knuckles will be working alongside the returning sheriff's deputy Wade Whipple played by Adam Pally.

Knuckles is set in the timeline between the events of 2022's Sonic 2 and this year's Sonic 3. Elba described the series a “segue” before the third movie is released in December. The actor's show will delve deeper into the mystery of how Knuckles will adapt to his new home and life in Green Hills.

“First of all, he's quite a mystery. You don't really know him too well. The way the show starts and opens — he's still a mystery. He unravels slowly and you get to know him a little bit,” he explained.

“That's the style we've adopted: Sonic is like, ‘Hey, hey!' and Knuckles is like [in Knuckles voice]: ‘OK? What am i doing here? What about this?' It's quite inquisitive,” Elba added.

The actor continued, “It's the same team that created the film and it's the same team going on to make the next film. From a quality perspective, it's exactly the same.”

Elba was last heard in Marvel's What If…? series, reprising his role in the Thor movies, Heimdall. He will next be heard in the upcoming Sonic the Hedgehog 3 movie. The actor also has four other projects in various stages of production.

Knuckles will debut on Paramount+ on April 26 in the US and will be available in the UK on April 27.