With just a few months away until the premiere of the Detective Pikachu movie, it was announced on the official Twitter account of Legendary Entertainment that a graphic novel adaptation of the highly anticipated live-action film will also be produced. Nelson Dániel will be doing the illustrations while Brian Buccellato will be writing the story for the graphic novel.
Detective Pikachu is slated to be released in theaters on May 10. The movie highlights a 3D CGI Pikachu voiced by Ryan Renolds (Deadpool). Other main cast members include Justice Smith as Tim Goodman, Ken Watanabe as Detective Yoshida, and Kathryn Newton as Lucy.
This upcoming movie is based on the Nintendo 3DS game of the same name released in 2016 in Japan, then on March 2018 in the US, Europe, and Australia.
While the movie’s premiere is still a few months away, it was confirmed in a report by the entertainment news website The Hollywood Reporter that Legendary is now working on a sequel for the film. Oren Uziel, screenwriter of 22 Jump Street and the upcoming Sonic the Hedgehog movie, is confirmed to be writing the script for the Detective Pikachu sequel.
Previously, the website We Got This Covered reported that the company is working on a “Pokemon Red and Blue” movie based from the first Pokemon games released for the Gameboy Color, Pokemon Red and Pokemon Blue.
According to their “official sources”, this upcoming movie project will be set in the Detective Pikachu universe but will introduce movie audiences to the lore of the franchise same as how players were first introduced to everything about Pokemon through the game. No plot info about the upcoming sequel was confirmed as of this time.
Source: Newsarama, Anime News Network