Back in July, Legendary won the rights to make a Pokemon movie based on Detective Pikachu, a 3DS game where players control a child that serves as the Dr. Watson to the titular talking Pikachu's Sherlock Holmes. If you missed the game's release, that's because, half a year later, it has yet to be released outside of Japan.
Now, writers Nicole Perlman (Thor, Guardians of the Galaxy), and Alex Hirsch (Gravity Falls) are in negotiations to write the live-action Detective Pikachu movie. That's a pretty good pedigree for kid friendly entertainment that adults love, an arena Pokemon dominates in gaming.
If all goes well, the Detective Pikachu movie will enter production in 2017, with Toho set to handle the Japanese release, and Universal Pictures handling distribution everywhere else. Hopefully production also motivates Nintendo get off its duff and release the 3DS Detective Pikachu game to other regions.
Aside from that, we're just one Danny DeVito announcement away from an instant classic…
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