Live-action Pokemon movie?!

[Guzma]

There's no thread of it in the news forum yet, so... Yeah.

Can't we just, I dunno, get Nintendo to let Disney use Pokemon in the Wreck-it Ralph sequel? Because I don't want to see Pokemon get mangled the same way DBZ and Avatar: TLA were. I'm also surprised this isn't automatically going to Warner since they air the TV show in the US, and it's kind of hilarious Sony's involved, given that they're a major rival of Nintendo. But still...

 

[Octomo]

It already been mentioned in the anime and manga forum. I feel the same way too how it may lead to how Dragonball and Avatar: tla end up.

 

[Dr. Buni]

The film wasn't even made yet and I already hate it.

 

[PaulTheProtist]

Please don't. The last thing I want to see is CGI Pokémon in front of Live Action. Plus, we don't have Robin Williams to play Professor Oak.

 

[cloysterh]

if they follow the games taking some artistic liberties like the manga, it can be nice and somewhat more mature... i wouldn't like to see ash ketchum, who is actually based on Red and an anime product on screen, it would look ridiculous and too childish.
i'm afraid how it will turn... i hope the pokemon animation don't look weird.

 

[SeanWheeler]

Realistic CGI Pokémon would just look bad. If they have their cartoon designs, it wouldn't mesh well with the live action. If they made them look realistic, they would look freaky. Just keep the Pokémon movies to the anime.

 

[Guzma]

They could make realistic Pokemon, but they wouldn't be the kind of "realistic" a lot of fan artists do. The "realistic" Pokemon pictures usually just take the character model and give it too many details, hurtling it into the uncanny valley. If they wanted to do it right, they could make Pikachu look somewhat like a real mouse, but they could add features that make it instantly recognizable as Pikachu. I have no idea how they'd do the less humanoid Pokemon like Haunter, though.

 

[Arceus the Dragon]

Yeah, pokemon would look awful in live action film. It is perfect as anime. My opinion though.

 

[Stratelier]

They could make realistic Pokemon, but they wouldn't be the kind of "realistic" a lot of fan artists do. The "realistic" Pokemon pictures usually just take the character model and give it too many details, hurtling it into the uncanny valley. If they wanted to do it right, they could make Pikachu look somewhat like a real mouse, but they could add features that make it instantly recognizable as Pikachu. I have no idea how they'd do the less humanoid Pokemon like Haunter, though.

I agree, there's "realistic" good and "realistic" bad. The line is drawn where the realism starts to take priority over the character's defining stylistic details.

Like the CGI Angry Birds trailer. Sure, it's a departure from the birds being just bouncing heads in the videogame, but the cartoony spirit is still in there.