Rob Letterman, the man behind "Monsters vs. Aliens," has been tapped to direct the live-action Pokemon movie "Detective Pikachu" that was recently announced by Legendary Entertainment. Since the skyrocketing success of Pokemon Go, numerous franchises have been popping up due to the favorable outcome.
Variety reports that the news about the movie director came after the confirmation that Legendary Entertainment got the rights to the "Pokemon" franchise. Open negotiations for the deal came in at early July this year and, which was around the same time as the phenomenal Pokemon Go app was released. The app that took the humanity by storm was well received by the public, and the frenzy was caught numerous times on camera. This milestone soared Nintendo's stocks up to 25%.
The Pokemon Go app allowed the comeback of the pocket monsters, originally introduced in Japan in 1996, to the pop culture and millennials. Pokemon has then acquired massive revenue from 279 million video games sold worldwide with 21.5 billion cards shipped to 74 countries, and an animated series that spanned 19 seasons.
The director, Rob Letterman has set quite a record for his movies at the box office with "Goosebumps" earning $150 million last year. Prior to that, "Monsters vs. Aliens" amassed $380million in 2009 and "Gulliver's Travels" earned nearly $240 million in 2010. EW adds that directors Nicole Perlman ("Guardians of the Galaxy," "Thor") and Alex Hirsch ("Galaxy Falls") were to pen the script for the movie.
In addition, the fans will witness a new character in the movie, Detective Pikachu, who is first introduced in a video game of the same name in February this year. The storyline of the video games starts with Tim Goodman, a boy searching for his missing father heads to Rhyme City where he meets Pikachu.
In other details, Universal Pictures will release the live-action film outside Japan while Pokémon movie collaborator, Toho, will be the distributing outfit in Japan as it has in its partnership with Legendary on the reboot for the "Godzilla" franchise.
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