Legendary Pictures' Detective Pikachu (May 2019)
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Legendary Pictures' Detective Pikachu (May 2019)
Yes, you've read right. Legendary has won the live action Pokemon movie rights and apparently will go for a Detective Pikachu story.
I'm 4000% ready for this.
Production starts next year. Universal will distribute, except in Japan where Toho will do the job.
http://variety.com/2016/film/news/pokem ... 201818838/
I'm 4000% ready for this.
Production starts next year. Universal will distribute, except in Japan where Toho will do the job.
http://variety.com/2016/film/news/pokem ... 201818838/
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Still a better idea than the Emoji and Tetris movies.
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Max Landis was considered to write this. Pretty damn scary. Thankfully his script has been shelved...permanently.
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Can someone mind pinching me? This is actually happening!? Holy skreeonk. Are you sure I'm not even in a dream right now?
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All I can think about is that I'm glad they're hopefully not making a drab dark reboot that completely messes with the source material so it can look edgy and cool. Like Power Rangers is doing. Not everything is Batman or Iron Man, lol. Not that I wouldn't be up for something akin to the games mixed with the anime and Special manga, I don't think that Pokemon, Power Rangers or anything of that sort should be hyper dark and gritty films because it really gets rid of the heart of such properties.Showa Gyaos wrote:Max Landis was considered to write this. Pretty damn scary. Thankfully his script has been shelved...permanently.
I'd love to see a deconstruction of the monster collection series in its own franchise,like Evangelion was to super-robot series.
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Strangely enough the new Power Rangers movie is getting me back into Power Rangers which I stopped caring about completely by age 7 and admittedly didn't like for a few years afterwards despite loving way more cheesy and nerdy shit at the same time. I'm looking forward to the PR movie: I really like the new costumes... except for Rita. Nope, classic Rita with that ridiculous white hair or bust. But they're doing something with the Green Ranger and the Green Ranger was always my favourite so I'm looking even more forward to it.Bigdog wrote:All I can think about is that I'm glad they're hopefully not making a drab dark reboot that completely messes with the source material so it can look edgy and cool. Like Power Rangers is doing. Not everything is Batman or Iron Man, lol. Not that I wouldn't be up for something akin to the games mixed with the anime and Special manga, I don't think that Pokemon, Power Rangers or anything of that sort should be hyper dark and gritty films because it really gets rid of the heart of such properties.Showa Gyaos wrote:Max Landis was considered to write this. Pretty damn scary. Thankfully his script has been shelved...permanently.
I'd love to see a deconstruction of the monster collection series in its own franchise,like Evangelion was to super-robot series.
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The more I see the suits, the more I don't care for them. The helmets resemble nothing of the show, while the suits are completely bland, over-complicated, and need some more white accents to the design so it could break them up. It should be hard to screw up the suits, because they're iconic. I did some minor design tweaks to the helmets and the suits sometime back to make it slightly resemble the show, while keeping the general aesthetics I liked from the redesigns. It's one thing to want some sort of redesign to fit a story, however, it looks like a laughable clone of every edgy reboot out there. If people can accept Spiderman and Black Panther and the Marvel universe, I'm very sure they could accept Power Rangers if it was more faithful to its' source material. Doesn't mean it has to be a direct translation, but something that's akin to the 1995 film, but given a major sleek design.SomeknowmeasXeno wrote:Strangely enough the new Power Rangers movie is getting me back into Power Rangers which I stopped caring about completely by age 7 and admittedly didn't like for a few years afterwards despite loving way more cheesy and nerdy shit at the same time. I'm looking forward to the PR movie: I really like the new costumes... except for Rita. Nope, classic Rita with that ridiculous white hair or bust. But they're doing something with the Green Ranger and the Green Ranger was always my favourite so I'm looking even more forward to it.Bigdog wrote:All I can think about is that I'm glad they're hopefully not making a drab dark reboot that completely messes with the source material so it can look edgy and cool. Like Power Rangers is doing. Not everything is Batman or Iron Man, lol. Not that I wouldn't be up for something akin to the games mixed with the anime and Special manga, I don't think that Pokemon, Power Rangers or anything of that sort should be hyper dark and gritty films because it really gets rid of the heart of such properties.Showa Gyaos wrote:Max Landis was considered to write this. Pretty damn scary. Thankfully his script has been shelved...permanently.
I'd love to see a deconstruction of the monster collection series in its own franchise,like Evangelion was to super-robot series.
Rita looks literally unrecognizable and looks more like Poison Ivy got fashion advice from Lady Gaga. And hearing how Bryan Cranston says its like "The Dark Knight" ensured I wouldn't see it aside from the PC casting choices, questionable story, and how nothing really feels like it at all. And they expect to make 7 of these?
I can only imagine an edgy Pokemon reboot from Hollywood right now, and I'd never see that unless it turned out amazing.
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I'd be down for an 'edgy' live action Pokemon: The First Movie remake.
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Power Rangers was -------- to begin with so I doubt the movie could do much damage. One another note what the hell is Detective Pikachu and why would they make that instead of a full blown Pokemon film!?
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I am ... very confused by this premise. I actually wasn't inclined to believe it until those Landis tweets. Probably won't see it either way, so good luck to them, I guess? At least it has the potential to be amazingly weird?
Did I miss something?
Are we ... are we talking about the same Power Rangers? The original multi-ethnic friend group?Bigdog wrote:And hearing how Bryan Cranston says its like "The Dark Knight" ensured I wouldn't see it aside from the PC casting choices
Did I miss something?
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I can't see a Landis written Pokemon film working well, unless it had a director that didn't do a Dragonball Evolution with it.Rodan wrote:I am ... very confused by this premise. I actually wasn't inclined to believe it until those Landis tweets. Probably won't see it either way, so good luck to them, I guess? At least it has the potential to be amazingly weird?
Are we ... are we talking about the same Power Rangers? The original multi-ethnic friend group?Bigdog wrote:And hearing how Bryan Cranston says its like "The Dark Knight" ensured I wouldn't see it aside from the PC casting choices
Did I miss something?
I mean them changing the Mighty Morphin' cast makeup for the four other rangers except for Jason in the reboot. Like every PC reboot, they always wuss out with the leader being usually white still. Why not look at Dino Charge for an example? I'm glad they finally have a black girl as the pink ranger. Then again, I really like Dino Charge in general as the cast and writing's pretty great.
Basically a video game that only exists in Japan around a talking Pikachu that people wanted Danny Devito to voice.Tyrant_Lizard_King wrote:Power Rangers was -------- to begin with so I doubt the movie could do much damage. One another note what the hell is Detective Pikachu and why would they make that instead of a full blown Pokemon film!?
OMG! I'd totally watch that and 2000 in live action.SomeknowmeasXeno wrote:I'd be down for an 'edgy' live action Pokemon: The First Movie remake.
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Probably because Pikachu talks in the Detective series.Tyrant_Lizard_King wrote:Power Rangers was -------- to begin with so I doubt the movie could do much damage. One another note what the hell is Detective Pikachu and why would they make that instead of a full blown Pokemon film!?
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>inb4 Pikachu starts quoting famous detectivesGigaBowserG wrote:Probably because Pikachu talks in the Detective series.Tyrant_Lizard_King wrote:Power Rangers was -------- to begin with so I doubt the movie could do much damage. One another note what the hell is Detective Pikachu and why would they make that instead of a full blown Pokemon film!?
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Legendary is playing Smart and Safe with this, they're fucking geniuses.
Detective Pikachu is testing the waters as the "Live action Pokemon Movie", while they wait and see how it actually turns out. In the background, they'll be waiting and planning on how they'll do the actual Live Action Pokemon movie. If in the event that all else fails with DP, they can just count it off as a Loss and say that the "Real" Pokemon Movie is coming.
If DP is successful, expect a "Animation" branch of Legendary to be formed and used to make other movies of the same style.
Detective Pikachu is testing the waters as the "Live action Pokemon Movie", while they wait and see how it actually turns out. In the background, they'll be waiting and planning on how they'll do the actual Live Action Pokemon movie. If in the event that all else fails with DP, they can just count it off as a Loss and say that the "Real" Pokemon Movie is coming.
If DP is successful, expect a "Animation" branch of Legendary to be formed and used to make other movies of the same style.
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I'd love to see a live action one if they took a Marvel approach. That means, take from Pokemon Special for the story , using the Indigo anime and its characters to fill their equivalent roles, and go for a mix of anime and Origins style battling so it's not too brutal. I'm hesitant for it to work, though.Stefanos of Levanon wrote:Legendary is playing Smart and Safe with this, they're skreeonking geniuses.
Detective Pikachu is testing the waters as the "Live action Pokemon Movie", while they wait and see how it actually turns out. In the background, they'll be waiting and planning on how they'll do the actual Live Action Pokemon movie. If in the event that all else fails with DP, they can just count it off as a Loss and say that the "Real" Pokemon Movie is coming.
If DP is successful, expect a "Animation" branch of Legendary to be formed and used to make other movies of the same style.
Legendary's also seeing how other anime properties fare such as Lionsgate's Naruto. If that does well, I can see more Shonen series like Pokemon done since that show's hard to translate, alongside Death Note. And maybe if George Miller could do a Fist of the North Star reboot. That would be a complete circle of influence, him doing the franchise that was inspired from his own, if it was real.
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.......So this is a thing I guess.
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Lets cast Liam Neeson as the voice of Detective Pikachu. Lets get real weird with it.
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Is Landis really that bad? He initially across as off-putting, though he doesn't seem too bad when you listen to him.Showa Gyaos wrote:Max Landis was considered to write this. Pretty damn scary. Thankfully his script has been shelved...permanently.
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People don't like him because he's off-putting and can be somewhat cocky. I merely think it's scary because his style of writing just wouldn't work for a movie like this. Case in point: The best movie he ever wrote was Chronicle (2012). The rest have been panned or mixed.kamilleblu wrote:Is Landis really that bad? He initially across as off-putting, though he doesn't seem too bad when you listen to him.Showa Gyaos wrote:Max Landis was considered to write this. Pretty damn scary. Thankfully his script has been shelved...permanently.
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Other than Chronicle, most of what he's been involved with has been garbage.kamilleblu wrote:Is Landis really that bad? He initially across as off-putting, though he doesn't seem too bad when you listen to him.Showa Gyaos wrote:Max Landis was considered to write this. Pretty damn scary. Thankfully his script has been shelved...permanently.
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