With the hype surrounding
Detective Pikachu's impending release, one has to wonder why the
Pokemon franchise hasn't gone live-action before now. One of the film's stars, Ryan Reynolds, recently discussed this very thing with
Comicbook.com.
Reynolds will, of course, be playing the role of Detective Pikachu in the film. Alongside him, Justice Smith will be playing, Tim Goodman, the titular Pokemon's human sidekick. Together the duo team-up in order to solve the mystery surrounding Tim's father.
The Pikachu-actor recently went into first becoming familiar with the popular Pokemon franchise, explaining that he became smitten with it immediately.
"I knew about Pokemon, but I didn't know much about the nuance and detail, so I sort of just missed it. I checked it all out, and it was fantastic, amazing world."
Naturally, the afformentioned question of why there hasn't been a live-action Pokemon movie before now came to Reynolds. The actor explained that he believes that the industry's technology simply wasn't good enough to pull it off until now.
"I can't believe there hasn't been a live-action movie before. I don't think technology actually caught up to this. Anytime you get to be part of a pioneering trip like this, it's pretty exciting."
Reynolds then explained first becoming involved with the upcoming film: "I was a lot of things. I make it all seem spur of the moment and cool, but I did a lot of checking around. The first thing they did was actually create a CGI Detective Pikachu and they actually paired my voice with it to see what it would sound like...Super adorable, super cute little guy with an impatient, acerbic voice."
Detective Pikachu is set to release in theatres on May 10th, 2019.