A Live-Action Detective Pikachu Movie is Coming

[jklinders]

How do you go from "electric rat" to "solves crimes"?

Because Japan?

Anyway as ridiculous as it seems to me, I was never the target audience for this stuff. Maybe they will toss in some cartoon/anime style meta joke about a lightbulb going off from an idea that he powers up. Maybe do a Phoenix Wright parody for good measure, the opportunities are endless.

I'll wait for the spin-off, Detective Pikachu in Space.

ow about "Where in the World is Pikachu?" Then once you figure out which country you gotta trap and train him.

 

[MHR]

If it doesn't get voiced by Danny DeVito it will be nothing to me.

 

[VoidWanderer]

So we won't be getting a sequel to Pokemon Snap, but you will make this!!!

 

[Ace O'Hagen]

I'd be happy with Richard Belzer doing his John Munch ... but in my heart of hearts, I really wish Jerry Orbach were able to do this.

 

[Palindromemordnilap_v1legacy]

How do you go from "electric rat" to "solves crimes"?

By utilising the simple phrase "they fight crime". Allow me to demonstrate:

One's an electric rat. The other's a prehistoric lizard-woman with a katana. They fight crime!
One's an electric rat. The other's a suspiciously sentient Great Dane. They fight crime!
One's an electric rat. The other's the car of tomorrow. They fight crime!
One's an electric rat. The other's Jackie Chan. They fight crime!

You see? It's great, it works with anything

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

How do you go from "electric rat" to "solves crimes"?

By utilising the simple phrase "they fight crime". Allow me to demonstrate:

One's an electric rat. The other's a prehistoric lizard-woman with a katana. They fight crime!
One's an electric rat. The other's a suspiciously sentient Great Dane. They fight crime!
One's an electric rat. The other's the car of tomorrow. They fight crime!
One's an electric rat. The other's Jackie Chan. They fight crime!

You see? It's great, it works with anything

Thank you for illustrating what absolute hack writing this is.

 

[IamLEAM1983]

Forget Danny DeVito, I want James McCaffrey. Make Pikachu a hard-boiled cop with nothing to lose.

It would probably be a better Max Payne movie than the one we already got.

Nah. I want Barry Ingham at his most Victorian British, or at least a Jeremy Brett impersonator.

All of the other electric rats in the world are out there shouting their species' name in a squeaker voice, and then you've got this one guy in a deerstalker cap who secretly laments that he looks almost unbearably cute while brooding in front of a fireplace. Insert the occasional forlorn sipping of a glass of whiskey or a few melancholy violin numbers.

 

[Fox12]

How do you go from "electric rat" to "solves crimes"?

By utilising the simple phrase "they fight crime". Allow me to demonstrate:

One's an electric rat. The other's a prehistoric lizard-woman with a katana. They fight crime!
One's an electric rat. The other's a suspiciously sentient Great Dane. They fight crime!
One's an electric rat. The other's the car of tomorrow. They fight crime!
One's an electric rat. The other's Jackie Chan. They fight crime!

You see? It's great, it works with anything

Thank you for illustrating what absolute hack writing this is.

What on earth is so hard to understand about a buddy cop movie?

Also, children love colorful anthropomorphic animals. It's been that way since Aesop.

The simple answer to your question would be "creativity."

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

How do you go from "electric rat" to "solves crimes"?

By utilising the simple phrase "they fight crime". Allow me to demonstrate:

One's an electric rat. The other's a prehistoric lizard-woman with a katana. They fight crime!
One's an electric rat. The other's a suspiciously sentient Great Dane. They fight crime!
One's an electric rat. The other's the car of tomorrow. They fight crime!
One's an electric rat. The other's Jackie Chan. They fight crime!

You see? It's great, it works with anything

Thank you for illustrating what absolute hack writing this is.

What on earth is so hard to understand about a buddy cop movie?

Also, children love colorful anthropomorphic animals. It's been that way since Aesop.

The simple answer to your question would be "creativity."

If your idea of creativity is X meets Y, here's a whopper: Pikachu... in space!

 

[Fox12]

How do you go from "electric rat" to "solves crimes"?

By utilising the simple phrase "they fight crime". Allow me to demonstrate:

One's an electric rat. The other's a prehistoric lizard-woman with a katana. They fight crime!
One's an electric rat. The other's a suspiciously sentient Great Dane. They fight crime!
One's an electric rat. The other's the car of tomorrow. They fight crime!
One's an electric rat. The other's Jackie Chan. They fight crime!

You see? It's great, it works with anything

Thank you for illustrating what absolute hack writing this is.

What on earth is so hard to understand about a buddy cop movie?

Also, children love colorful anthropomorphic animals. It's been that way since Aesop.

The simple answer to your question would be "creativity."

If your idea of creativity is X meets Y, here's a whopper: Pikachu... in space!

There are no new ideas. The concept isn't that important. It's the delivery that matters.