>Legendary Entertainment has confirmed it caught a potentially-monster film franchise — the Pokemon series.
>The Dalian Wanda-owned studio announced the live action “Detective Pikachu,” which will star the property’s popular little yellow character. Universal will handle worldwide distribution in all territories except Japan. Plot details are being kept under wraps, but the film will be based on the Detective Pikachu character from Nintendo’s Pokemon spin-off game of the same name, released for the Nintendo 3DS in Japan. The film is scheduled to begin production in 2017.
>Short for “pocket monster,” Pokemon has reignited a global frenzy thanks to its ubiquitous augmented reality app “Pokemon Go,” which allows players to seek out and capture the game‘s popular characters out in the real world. In the weeks since it’s release, the mobile game has seen huge success, sending Nintendo’s stock skyrocketing, and reportedly earning as much as $1.6 million per day.
>The deal for the film was brokered by Don McGowan, General Counsel at The Pokémon Company International, who led the negotiations with outside counsel Dan Black of Greenberg Traurig. Marty Willhite, Legendary’s Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel along with Daniel Feinberg, Vice President Corporate Counsel and Mike Ross, Senior Vice President, Business and Legal Affairs, represented the studio.
>there are people excited for a hollywood made movie based on a japanese video game.
when will they ever learn? they already ruined power rangers.
cant wait to see that semi-realistic looking pikachu with bad hair shaders.
Jace Collins
But there are already pokemon movies.
Angel Martin
They make a Pokemon movie every year, why is this exciting for anyone?
Christopher Taylor
you mean like this?
Tyler Bailey
This.
There's got to be at least a dozen of them by now, if not more.
I remember actually going to see Pokemon the Movie in theaters, and I even got a cool holographic zubat or something.
Grayson Edwards
Will they finally make Pokemon for adults?
Jacob Price
I hope so
Austin Adams
Isn't there some creepy pasta that tells how monsters take over the world and in the last paragraph it says governments send out kids to tame them?
Kayden Scott
there already is desu
Thomas Rivera
I still have this somewhere.
Brayden Campbell
It's probably going to look just like OP's pic but higher res.
Brandon Cook
>Halo movie confirmed >Bioshock movie confirmed >Half life movie confirmed >Warcraft mov- Well, at this point who knows.
Aaron Perez
Because it's an American-made live action movie by Legendary and Universal. Learn to read.
Oliver Walker
Oh hey, I fapped to this earlier today. It was alright, I guess.
Joseph Johnson
Please don't be live action
I'll take shitty CGI over that.
Cameron Green
>he thinks Hollywood is going to keep the original pokemon designs.
actually you know, I wouldn't be surprised if the pokemon turn out to just be computer holograms projected out from peoples phones. sort of like a iron man JARVIS thing.
Isaac Cruz
Legendary only makes live-action.
Xavier Morris
STARRING ADAM SANDLER
Rated PG-13
Benjamin Wilson
>A pokemon movie not made by Japan >Pikachu will probably look like something from pixar >Main character will be probably be some white kid to "appeal to the American audience"
Jason Ross
If dubs, will be voiced by Danny Devito
Jaxon Martinez
THIS.
Hollywood has literally billions of dollars waiting to fall into their palms
Unfortunately, the movie will not be based on the main games/anime, but on the game of the same name "The Great Detective Pikachu".
Zachary Davis
What happened to detective Pikachu? They couldn't get Danny?
Benjamin Cruz
>Not making a Pokémon pinball movie
Isaac Sanchez
>Adam Sandler had it all Adam Sandler: POOPYPOOPY I AM ADAM SANDLER >until ONE DAY Adam Sandler: AHHHH >Adam Sandler turned into a PIKACHU Adam Sandler: I POOPED MY PANTS >Now Adam Sandler will have to risk it all Adam Sandler: I'm sorry daughter that I missed your dance recital because I POOPED BY PANTS >to show his family Adam Sandler: POOPY PIKACHU >what love is all about Adam Sandler's daughter and unreasonably hot wife: I love you Pikachu Adam Sandler: I love you chu I POOPED MY PANTS
Rated PG-13
Eli Anderson
It seems like this concept won't have most of the things that make the series appealing to people. What's the point of spending so much money on the IP if you're going to use it for some kind of ironic meme comedy?
Charles Wilson
I think click was an acceptable movie
Jeremiah Morales
Directed, produced and milked by acclaimed movie maker/actor Adam Sandler
Brandon Cox
so does that mean we're going to get Danny Devito Pikachu after all? Sign me the fuck up.
There's already 20+traditional Pokemon movies, what would making a live action version of any of those achieve?
Isaiah Bell
Holy crap maintaining eye contact with him is extremely uncomfortable
Levi Moore
Still have my 4.
Logan Stewart
>not Rob Schneider so close
Ian Mitchell
He's intimidating.
POOPOOPEEPEE
Matthew Robinson
I'm pretty sure he will if they try to cast him, along with a check.
Michael Perry
Money? Pretty sure more people would rather see trainers/battles than a half assed detective comedy with Pokémon.
Connor Murphy
Rob Schneider is part of Sandler's ensemble. He comes with the package deal.
He'll be the wacky foreigner, a character well-renowned to Pokemon fans. Rob will say things like EH I AM FOREIGN MAN LOST IN NEW YORK CITY, THE CITY WHERE THIS POKEMON MOVIE IS SET
Carter Garcia
I still hope he'd do it. It would be incredible
Joseph Foster
I have half your trailer, half your movie right here
Between this and needing an American comapny + Google to create the closest thing to a Pokemon MMO it really goes to show just how much they fucking hate money.
Juan Baker
Picked up by Legendary and Universal, not Sony. No other major studio is dumb enough to cast Adam Sandler in a big film anymore.
Sony has the Super Mario Bros. film rights though.
Asher Campbell
This is literally the best idea for a Pokemon movie >Pikachu is front and center >sells toys and pervy personality makes adults laugh >easy story that can nicely fit a single movie >the other Pokemon involved can be the most popular ones/the ones they want to sell without being tied to a specific region or generation >being mostly about humans with few battles requires less cringy CG >buddy cop action comedy sells to pretty much every target, regardless of age and gender
Legendary knows their shit, adapting a main game would have meant angry fans because of the amount of stuff they need to cut (most of the gym battles, for example, think of origin) plus angry normies because. well, most Pokemon games simply do not have such a great plot to begin with. They would make rushed, boring movie, and probably the budget would skyrocket with all the battles and stuff. Detective Pikachu, meanwhile, is easy to make and infinitably more marketable. This is easily the best possible outcome linked with the concept of Pokemon live action movie.
Liam Reyes
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Jeremiah Sanders
Will this movie be in New York City for no fucking reason?
Blake Hall
Except we already have the anime for that, and can do it far better. Live-action Pokémon in general sounds awful because the series is inherently cartoonish. At least this is slightly salvageable.
Elijah King
99% of potential audience for a Pokemon movie have no interest in watching anime.
Alexander Martinez
Well, here's our Mario Brothers
Anthony Howard
Closed.
Levi Harris
First off, that's bullshit since the animals was what made the series popular to begin with. Second, even if it is true, what makes you think a more traditional movie would fare any better if it was live-action?
Camden Rodriguez
Did detective pikachu even come out in america?
Austin Carter
Unova exists so maybe.
Kayden Baker
this pic saddens me because with straight long hair, no glasses and decent clothing she would be a qt, but if she's happy that's fine i guess
Caleb Nguyen
Not that I've heard.
Maybe they were waiting for a movie tie in in order to have it sell better?
Apparently it won't come out until after 2017 according to articles.
IIRC the game ends with "to be continued" as if to say there will be more episodes.
Perhaps they're developing a full game based on the positive reception of the small digital game.
It'd be kinda like how Captain Toad's Treasure Hunt came to be after positive reception of said stages in SM3D World.
Michael Rodriguez
>some shithole in China >making a movie for a Japanese company sage for clickbait
Liam Price
>Legend Pictures >Burbank, California
Jaxon Murphy
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Brody Reed
Do you think the artists and staff are not American or something.
James Martin
Okay. I need help. I just got a N3DS and it has the 11.0 patch, so I don't know if I can use homebrew. Is there hope?
Juan Cox
there is hope but it's extremely unstable to do it and i think you need another new 3ds thats hacked anyway. you're fucked.