Legendary Has Already Begun Work On A Detective Pikachu Sequel

The second coming?

They're definitely showing some confidence that the first one will do well. Honestly, that's pretty earned though. The first trailer has done well so far and they are working with the most profitable media franchise of all time.

Getting a little ahead of themselves I would say.

It is fair for Marvel to make the next movie before the newest one is out, because they have an established series.

I know I have been pretty vocal about my personal dislike of this film, but even die hards should admit, making a sequel to something new before the first one even comes out is a little arrogant.

As excited as I am for the first one, they don't even know it'll do well yet.

Well, looking at his previous work I have low hopes

So basically confirmation that the movie will be just like the game and not wrap up the story. >_<

I'm sorry to say this, but if you're not Marvel, working on the sequel before your first movie is even out is a sign of hubris and the odds of me actually supporting you and watching it in the cinema drop drastically.

i'm sure it's a hit already so of course it would be stupid not to make an other one. It's business. If it is/will be selling more can be expected. with that said

@Heavyarms55 Very true and just imagine, the Lord of the Rings trilogy filmed three movies back to back before the first one had been released.. even MORE arrogant!

I get what you mean though, if you're not looking forward to a movie (and I definitely didn't like the LotR trilogy) then it can seem dumb to film sequels in advance of release.. but it happens all the time.

Sometimes it makes sense to risk moving too quickly (especially with a young cast).

*Edit: on the "something new" part of your comment, it's based on a top selling game from a smash hit franchise. Movie series have been based in less.

@DanteSolablood I can understand planning out the basics of a sequel, but actually starting to make it when you don't know how well your first one will do... just a bad idea.

So they already workings on 3 Pokémon movies?! (Detective pikachu 1/2 and Red journey in kanto)
They really going for PCU
I wish they know what they are doing, cause I am hyped!!!!
Anyway, movies take time to make, and they are working with one of the biggest franchises on earth
If “warnner brothers” get so many shots with DC movies, a franchise like Pokémon will easily get 3 shots and even more before people will start giving up on this cinematic universe

This will be a wave similar to the LEGO movies. ...Which should work as long as the writers are good. Lots of potential withi interesting themes. ...A detective/mystery movie. An action/adventure movie. Suspense. A musical. ...These could all be great.

I'd wait to see how the first film does before setting things in motion for a sequel, but this isn't uncommon in Hollywood. Sometimes it pays off, sometimes not.

Lots of folks revealing they have no business sense here today. The first film is going to be a smash hit, I don’t see how that’s even debatable. For starters, it’s Pokemon, so it’s inherently going to do well. But they also seem to be pretty well invested in the franchise with Pokémon from every generation and all kinds of little references just in the first trailer.

It’s easy to say that they’re being arrogant with this, but look from another perspective: since the movie will be a hit, shouldn’t they be planning a sequel to come out ASAP to capitalize on that? It makes no sense to sit around and wait a few years before putting out the next movie when they could pump them out and make tons of money.

I have confidence that this will be a good movie. Probably not the best I’ve ever seen but what little we know is promising. I just have to find a way to justify going to the theatre on opening night to watch a Pokémon movie...

@Heavyarms55 “fair?”what?

I’m sorry but do you work in the movie business? Are you a Hollywood producer?

If they want to hire a guy to script a sequels that’s between them and the writer. Legendary can do whatever they want.

Fair? If there was ever a poor choice of words, then there it is.

You people are inane.

How about they put Detective Pikachu on The Case of the Missing 8th Gen Announcement?

Business as usual. This doesn't mean they will actually make the sequel if - by some hideous fluke - Detective Pikachu flops. It just means they are going ahead with development based on their projections of its success.

In case somehow not everybody knows this, the writer of a modern Hollywood blockbuster makes less money than just about everybody else involved. Contracting a writer is a tiny, tiny drop in the bucket of Detective Pikachu's budget. They won't miss that money even if DP is an unprecedented disaster. But WB and Legendary need to keep the ball rolling so that when they actually greenlight the sequel (which they will do on DP's opening weekend) they're not all sitting around waiting for a writer to get inspired, but actually have an idea where they're going.

It's very solid business practice. Look ahead and always be developing the next thing, don't fall asleep at the wheel.

This is prettt standard now a days. They start preproduction and story boarding early, that way if the first movie is successful enough to warrant a sequel, there is less of a wait time for the sequel. Like mentioned above, gotta strike while the iron is hot

@Heavyarms55 As you have probably read in the article, they only hired a script writer yet. That's one guy that is hired to put words on paper, and I'm pretty sure nothing else but script writing will happen until at least a week after DPs release in May.

In the end, it just means the writer has three more months to write. And if DP fails, Legendary only loses three months of a writer's salary, instead of all the money they will lose due to delays, like efforts to get back the same actors, directors and cg-supervisors, three extra months of Franchise-Rights, brand-recognition, marketing, tie-in contracts, etc., etc....

I too dislike Movies trying to shove a universe into your face before they make their films work.
But as in above's case, it's not arrogant. It's just planning ahead in a multi-million business tied to thousands of jobs.

Every film tied to a franchise works that way. And I'm pretty sure the responses of test audiences (a rough cut with unfinished cg-shots probably exists already) were good enough for Legendary to risk dipping money into the writing of a sequel.

@Heavyarms55 Also, planning a MCU movie is totally different from a regular film. In the MCU, all movies of a phase are already laid out. Most of the time, this includes plot points. Several of them are also planned around existing plots from comics.

Thus, you can already order CG-Guys to design and model a new Iron man suit and book locations or actors before the script is finished. Because they know these things will have to stick in the final movie, and the writers and directors have to adapt to these requests.

With a Detective Pikachu sequel, only Pikachu and Ikue Otani are set in stone. Literally anything else could change, including Ryan Reynolds as a voice actor (...in theory)

Personally I'd like to see a take on the Black and White storyline. I'd be interesting to see how they'd bring characters like N into live action.

Soulcalibour 2 gamecube version obviously

The writer seems like an odd choice. Why not bring back the writers for the first one? I've never seen the Jump Street movies, but Cloverfield Paradox was a hot mess.

Reminds me of when Sony greenlit a sequel and all-female spin-off to “Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse” before it released. I thought it was cocky and brash.

However, that movie turned out to be amazing, so the sequels were warranted.

Hopefully Detective Pikachu is an amazing film worthy of an expanded Pokémon cinematic universe.

@AxeltheBuizel Seeing B&W in live action would make me feel like a kid again (if done correctly). Black was the first Pokémon title I ever played!

Ok I looked it up and in all fairness to Oren Uziel, they shoehorned the Cloverfield elements into the story for Paradox after the fact, something they also did for 10 Cloverfield Lane, the only difference being that in 10 Cloverfield Lane, they were mostly successful.

Okay, good to lock in the cast if they're that confident they have a winner. They definitely got the look of a Pokemon world down, but I'm going to be giving a hard stink-eye if they don't sell how battles work in a realistic world.

@Heavyarms55 I suspect that this work they're doing on the next movie is probably very preliminary. I'm betting no real money gets spent until they see profits from the first movie. But if it does succeed, it would be good to have a game plan to strike while the iron is still hot. And it might be a marketing ploy too. Talk about your plans for an extended universe and the future to help drive the hype. Although that certainly didn't work for the Mummy and Dark Universe. They can talk about the EU all they want, but hopefully Detective Pikachu was made with the focus of making Detective Pikachu a good movie, and not loosing the plot because they were too distracted setting up sequels.

This is harsh to say but I hope this movie fails.

It probably won't at the box office but I'm banking on abysmal reviews will do it and that would be the best case scenario for me because I don't want some Hollywood cash grab structured around low-brow humor possibly influencing the games and perception of Pokemon at all.

"Don't you think they are counting the chickens before they hatch"

It's Hollywood we're talking about, this is nothing new, and recently this is widespread.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StillbornFranchise

@Heavyarms55 it's what happens, often the same with games.
Early pre-production is started before the first is released.
It's not cynical or arrogant, it's what the customer demands.

@Elvie it appears to be of vastly superior quality to all animated movies.

@TF-Warrior The sequel will feature a Shinx slouching towards Spear Pillar to be born

@Spectra I seen the first trailer for it and it has quite a lot of likes, so there's no way this movie will be bad. It has like 66K dislikes but it has 1.3 million likes, so it is good.

That was quick.