The Lead Role for the Detective Pikachu Movie Has Been Cast

Interesting. This will probably be the only time hearing Pikachu talking won't bug me.

Pikachu should be played by Arnold Schwarzenegger.

I randomly thought of this movie the other day

Danny Devito or bust.

If Danny DeVito ends up playing Pikachu my life will be near-complete

As we mentioned in that "talking Pikachu" article a couple days ago, this movie is in fact in production. It'll be interesting to see if this turns out to be a good movie... or a hilariously bad one.

@BigDaddysPizza My bet’s on bad in a bad way.

#devitoismypikachu

@JHDK

You mean his twin brother Danny DeVito.

Breaking News everyone!!!

Pikachu by Tara Strong.

Man this movie sounded painful enough already, but with Pikachu speaking, this is gonna be a real bottom-of-the-barrel stinker.

@Prizm Nah, it's gonna rock your world.

Yay (Though I'm actually gonna watch the Jap dub)

Any relation to Will Smith?

Pikachu should be voiced by Alex Hirsch! He's already working on the dang thing...

I want to hear him speaking like JD in Heathers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LkFNZauk90

@Prizm I mean, it would probably sound less painful if we actually got the damn game in the west to begin with... Or even Detective Pikachu Episode 2 in Japan

@MsJubilee This made me laugh and is possibly the only thing that could save this film from being absolutely terrible.

Is Bobcat Goldthwait still working?

Stop spoiling the other movie on the front page

I still can't understand the point of this movie. Who thought this was an interesting and mass-marketable idea?

@ricklongo Pokemon Go was at the highest of its popularity when it was announced. Clearly the film companies thought that train would last forever.

That and Hollywood isnt exactly flooded with unique new ideas these days....

Danny DeVito, yes!
That, and the movie being written by Alex Hirsch, will make this the best Pokémon big screen adaptation by default.

I want Christopher Walken for Pikachu's voice. "Pikachu neva scared me much, Digby do." lol

Ummmm the lead role is Detective Pikachu since thats the name of the movie...and I want it to be the Rock so bad....lol

Steve Buscemi FTW 💪🏻

@Anti-Matter detective pikachu has a deep voice in the games, so I don’t think they’ll go with tara strong, especially since it will be a cinametic feature and tara strong is more a tv and game voice actor.

I always assumed that Pikachu got the lead role as Detective Pikachu.

@PtM Nope, just a random thought. But let's all be real here, Gilbert Gottfried is the real contender for the voice of Pikachu

Danny, Danny....

I really hoped that it was the voice actor of Shulk. But hopefully this works out great too.

@Pichuka97 My thoughts exactly!

Imagine Christopher Walken as Pikachu.

David Suchet would have been perfect.

I think Samuel L. Jackson would make a great Pikachu.

Pretty weird to see that we'll actually get the movie, but not the game its based on...

This is going to be atrocious, especially since Hollywood is involved in the proceedings. Expect a typical "A lister" in the role of Pikachu, just so that they can drop their name in the trailers.