Now that we've seen quite a bunch of trailers for Warner Bros. and Legendary's
Detective Pikachu, with Ryan Reynolds as the voice of Pikachu, it is hard for us to imagine someone else voicing the character; even though the video game the movie is based on has a Pikachu with a completely different voice.
It turns out that Ryan Reynolds actually wanted to give Pikachu a different voice instead of just using his normal voice, as revealed in an interview with Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show; wanting to give Pikachu a slightly more Noir type of voice that fit the style
Detective Pikachu is going for.
Reynolds doesn't go into details about what the voice wouldve actually sounded like, but he did think about giving it an "
old-school gumshoe, kind of, Columbo, Peter Falk, sort of Brookyln kind of thing", said Reynolds, but his idea wasn't received the way he expected; claiming that they told him to just do a "Ryan Reynolds" voice.
It would've definitely been interesting to see Pikachu voiced by Reynolds but doing a different voice for the character, but fans have already expressed their enthusiasm with Pikachu's voice as it is; although there are still the few that keep wishing it was Danny DeVito who got the role.
The first-ever live-action Pokémon movie, “POKÉMON Detective Pikachu” stars Ryan Reynolds as the titular character in the first-ever live-action movie based on the iconic face of the global Pokémon brand—one of the world’s most popular, multi-generation entertainment properties and most successful media franchises of all time.
Detective Pikachu will release in theatres on the 10th of May in 2019.