Legendary Pictures' Detective Pikachu (May 2019)

kamilleblu · Post by **kamilleblu** » Fri Jul 22, 2016 10:51 am

Hmm. Maybe he is better with pre-established properties? People often compare Chronicle to Akira and to my understanding most like his take on Superman (Superman: American Alien). But then there's Frankenstein...

Young Guy · Post by **Young Guy** » Fri Jul 22, 2016 11:53 am

This is a ridiculous idea. I mean, how have they NOT confirmed that Danny Devito has the starring role?

TheSecondComing · Post by **TheSecondComing** » Tue Jul 26, 2016 11:07 am

http://uproxx.com/tv/danny-devito-alway ... pikachu/2/

Devito was asked if he was aware fans wanted this at an Always Sunny event and apparently said "no" and "what the fuck is a Pokemon?"

Added in 22 hours 56 minutes 56 seconds:
http://www.legendary.com/legendary-and- ... e-pikachu/

Detective Pikachu movie confirmed.

Mr_Goji_and_Watch · Post by **Mr_Goji_and_Watch** » Wed Jul 27, 2016 11:48 am

Considering how Legendary handled another famous Japanese property, it's safe to assume that Pikachu will only be in the movie for about 8 minutes.

Young Guy · Post by **Young Guy** » Thu Jul 28, 2016 3:08 am

Mr_Goji_and_Watch wrote:Considering how Legendary handled another famous Japanese property, it's safe to assume that Pikachu will only be in the movie for about 8 minutes.

They'll confirm that Danny DeVito will make a cameo appearance, only to delete his scene.

Zilla103192 · Post by **Zilla103192** » Sat Jul 30, 2016 5:19 am

Ugghh why?

Why not adapt Origins into a live action film? Just smooth out the flow. That would be the perfect love action pokemon film.

Julia Bristow · Post by **Julia Bristow** » Tue Aug 02, 2016 5:39 am

Legendary doing a live action Pokémon movie? WTF are Legendary thinking?

TheSecondComing · Post by **TheSecondComing** » Wed Nov 30, 2016 4:52 pm

http://variety.com/2016/film/news/pokem ... 201831694/

Legendary negotiating with Nicole Perlman (Guardians of the Galaxy) and Alex Hirsch (Gravity Falls) to write Detective Pikachu.

Added in 1 hour 44 minutes 21 seconds:
http://deadline.com/2016/11/detective-p ... 201862346/

Rob Letterman (Monsters vs. Aliens, Goosebumps, Shark Tale) will direct Detective Pikachu.

Ivo-goji · Post by **Ivo-goji** » Fri Dec 02, 2016 9:09 pm

^First news sounds promising. Second news... not as much.

TheSecondComing · Post by **TheSecondComing** » Wed Oct 18, 2017 11:30 am

Only a rumor, but fun to imagine. Game Informer writes of a youtube channel that claims Legendary is considering Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Hugh Jackman, Zach Galifianakis, and Mark Wahlberg for Detective Pikachu.

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/arch ... movie.aspx

Post by **UltramanGoji** » Wed Oct 18, 2017 11:44 am

Where did Zach Galifragilisticexpealidocious come from? Last I heard Ryan Reynolds was being considered:

http://www.ign.com/articles/2017/10/17/ ... tion-stars

TheSecondComing · Post by **TheSecondComing** » Wed Nov 29, 2017 10:34 pm

I don't know, but that IGN article is certainly better than the GI one. Good find.

Added in 9 hours 38 minutes 16 seconds:
Justice Smith (The Get Down, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom) has landed the lead role in Detective Pikachu. Looking at him, he has to be playing the lead boy character.

http://variety.com/2017/film/news/get-d ... 202617079/

Added in 36 minutes 18 seconds:
Kathryn Newton (Big Little Lies) has won the lead role of Lucy.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat- ... ss-1062617

NSZ · Post by **NSZ** » Wed Dec 06, 2017 4:26 pm

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat- ... hu-1065206

Ryan Reynolds cast as the titular Detective Pikachu

Twitter acts like Reynolds' last film role was Green Lantern

Post by **UltramanGoji** » Wed Dec 06, 2017 5:14 pm

NSZ wrote:
Twitter acts like Reynolds' last film role was Green Lantern

They probably were hankering for Danny Devito to get the role.

I'm fine with Reynolds. He's hilarious.

TheSecondComing · Post by **TheSecondComing** » Mon Dec 11, 2017 5:17 pm

https://www.legendary.com/detective-pik ... -may-2019/

May 10, 2019.
Toho handles the duties in Japan, as expected.
Topic title updated to reflect the news.

MandaSaurus · Post by **MandaSaurus** » Fri Dec 22, 2017 2:10 pm

SOME animated properties are NOT suitable for live-action, and Pokemon is one of them!

NSZ · Post by **NSZ** » Fri Jan 19, 2018 4:33 pm

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat- ... hu-1076103

And Ken Watanabe joins!

G-Matt · Post by **G-Matt** » Fri Jan 19, 2018 9:13 pm

NSZ wrote:https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat- ... hu-1076103

And Ken Watanabe joins!

I'm still in amazement for this news.

TheSecondComing · Post by **TheSecondComing** » Wed Jan 24, 2018 10:19 pm

http://www.cinelinx.com/movie-news/item ... egins.html

MPC and Framestore will handle the VFX work.

Post by **LSD Jellyfish** » Wed Jan 24, 2018 10:22 pm

To be honest I think this is a great way to have a Pokémon movie. Pokémon is so big now, in terms of all the varieties right now, it’d be chaotic to just throw audiences into a rushed retelling of one of the games. I haven’t played detective pikachu, but I know you could make a really creative mystery or something if the Pokémon are used right.

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