Legendary Pictures are pushing ahead with a live-action Pokemon movie after winning the film rights for the property. The news comes via Deadline who report that the film is in the early stages of pre-production after the rise of the augmented reality game Pokemon GO, which pretty much caused a $9 billion 25% stock price jump for Nintendo.
The first Pokemon game first appeared back in 1996 and became a global phenomenon, selling over 279 million units since the series began.
There have been no less than nineteen Pokemon movies to date, though the planned project at Legendary will be the first live-action.
Here’s a little about Pokemon GO, which revived the property.
Travel between the real world and the virtual world of Pokémon with Pokémon GO for iPhone and Android devices. With Pokémon GO, you’ll discover Pokémon in a whole new world—your own! Pokémon GO is built on Niantic’s Real World Gaming Platform and will use real locations to encourage players to search far and wide in the real world to discover Pokémon. Pokémon GO will allow players to find and catch more than a hundred different Pokémon as they explore their surroundings.
The Pokémon video game series has used real-world locations such as the Hokkaido and Kanto regions of Japan, New York, and Paris as inspiration for the fantasy settings in which its games take place. Now the real world will be the setting!
Get on your feet and step outside to find and catch wild Pokémon. Explore cities and towns around where you live and even around the globe to capture as many Pokémon as you can. As you move around, your smartphone will vibrate to let you know you’re near a Pokémon. Once you’ve encountered a Pokémon, take aim on your smartphone’s touch screen and throw a Poké Ball to catch it. Be careful when you try to catch it, or it might run away! Also look for PokéStops located at interesting places, such as public art installations, historical markers, and monuments, where you can collect more Poké Balls and other items.
More news on the Pokemon live-action movie as we get it.
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