The very first instalment in Legendary's live-action Pokémon cinematic universe; Detective Pikachu arrived in theatres a few weeks ago. Pokémon: Detective Pikachu stars Ryan Reynolds as the titular Pokemon and Justice Smith as, his human companion, Tim Goodman. The two characters team-up to solve the mystery surrounding the latter's missing father.
Though
Pokémon: Detective Pikachu might not be the most major story in the
Pokemon franchise, it certainly features a bunch of major players. One of these major players would be Mewtwo, a fan-favourite, legendary Pokemon creature.
One of the highly anticipated film's writers, Benji Samit, recently featured on
Comicbook.com's podcast, A Wild Podcast Appeared, where he talked about why the omniscient Pokemon was included in the film as well as writing dialogue for the godlike being.
Well, I think that Mewtwo is such an interesting and complicated character that we wanted to capture an etherealness to that, to his voice and to its point of view. This is a Pokemon that has more knowledge than maybe almost anything else on the planet. It's just experienced a lot. It's power is off the chart.
So we felt like there was, I don't want to say it's an attachment, but there is sort of like a prescience of understanding that Mewtwo possesses and we felt like when we were writing Mewtwo's dialogue that had to be present in his dialogue, that Mewtwo has seen the past and the present and the future, that sort of jumble and understands more than our characters do. It has the ability to do things our characters can't. So that was sort of the thought process when we were writing Mewtwo.
Synopsis: Ace detective Harry Goodman goes mysteriously missing, prompting his 21-year-old son, Tim, to find out what happened. Aiding in the investigation is Harry's former Pokémon partner, wise-cracking, adorable super-sleuth Detective Pikachu. Finding that they are uniquely equipped to work together, as Tim is the only human who can talk with Pikachu, they join forces to unravel the tangled mystery.