to expand the franchise beyond the world of video games.

"We can bring Sonic to the next level and not only bring the Sonic game to existing fans, but we try to grow our fan base worldwide."

Video game movies have been famously tricky for Hollywood to crack, but Sonic seems like a logical character to try and bring to the big screen. Save for Mario, Sonic could be arguably one of the most recognizable video game characters on the planet. Sonic the Hedgehog was first introduced to the world in 1991 on the Sega Genesis and rapidly became a huge success. To date, the character's various titles have sold more than 360 million copies worldwide. The character was previously brought to the small screen in the 1993 animated seriesReaching Further Back In Time

October 20, 2007|By MARK ST. JOHN ERICKSON, merickson@dailypress.com 247-4783

WILLIAMSBURG — Archaeologists probing beneath the surface of a Merchants Square parking lot have discovered evidence of a rare 17th-century building that dates to a little-understood colonial outpost that preceded the town's founding in 1699.

Located under the SunTrust Bank parking lot at the corner of Prince George and Henry streets, the 40-foot-long, post-in-ground structure is one of only a handful of buildings known from the days of Middle Plantation, which was settled in 1633. It could provide important new clues about the apparently substantial but elusive rural crossroads, which has puzzled scholars for years.

"We rarely find any evidence of Middle Plantation. There are no maps that tell us how the property was laid out before the