Legendary Entertainment has won a bid to create the first official live action Pokémon film.
Legendary will be partnering with The Pokémon Company to create a live action film based on “Great Detective Pikachu,” a game which came out in Japan in early February, but has not seen a release elsewhere.
Between this news and the overwhelming success of Pokèmon GO, Pokèmon seems to be experiencing a mainstream resurgence that rivals its popularity during the 90s.
Few details are known about the film so far, other than Universal Pictures will be handling the film’s distribution outside of Japan. This coincides with Nintendo’s partnership with Universal to create Nintendo themed attractions in Universal parks (although the Pokémon Company is its own autonomous company.)
We can only hope that Legendary and The Pokémon Company make the right choice and cast Danny DeVito as the voice of Pikachu for English audiences.
i had insane shiny luck! i hatched (via masuda method, with no shiny charm) an amaura in 6 eggs, chain fished (which is essentially garunteed, so I’m not the biggest fan) a ton of pokemon, including 4 feebas because I wanted a female for milotic. lots in hordes, 1 chained hawlucha, and 1 random zekrom. (this one ws with a shiny charm) dicie’s trevenant was found like 10 minutes after I just found a shiny trevenant too haha
This is definitely not the live action Pokemon movie I was expecting/hoping for. I’m actually really disappointed.