The
Pokemon franchise is expanding its horizons, making its way into the realm of live-action for the very first time with the highly-anticipated, upcoming movie:
Detective Pikachu. With Justice Smith playing his human companion, Tim Goodman; Ryan Reynolds will be voicing the lovable, yellow creature. Reynolds recently sat down with
Comicbook.com to promote and discuss the film's forthcoming theatrical release.
With
Detective Pikachu blowing everybody's mind with how good the beloved franchise has translated into a live-action setting (that is, based on the trailers), naturally many have been wondering why it's taken so long for the
Pokemon franchise to take this step. Reynolds addressed this in the afformentioned interview wherein the actor supposed that it was simply on account of the technology not being up to par until now.
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. 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.
Following this, Reynolds went further into becoming familiar with the long-running franchise as well as first becoming attached to the 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."
Reynolds' voice coming out of the adorable creature has proven divisive among the fanbase, we'll just have to wait and see whether the seemingly odd choice of voice-actor pays off when Detective Pikachu releases in six days.
Detective Pikachu is set to release in theatres on May 10th, 2019.