Detective Pikachu coming to big screen!

Good news for Pokemon fans as Rob Letterman, a director of Dreamworks Animation’s Monsters Vs. Aliens and Shark Tale, is set to helm Detective Pikachu, the first-ever live-action Pokémon film.

The film is being made by Legendary Entertainment, owned by Chinese conglomerate Wanda Group. Though the initial craze of Pokémon Go, the location-based augmented reality gaming app, has died down, it has brought enormous attention to the Japanese franchise.

Detective Pikachu was introduced in the adventure game, Great Detective Pikachu: Birth of a New Duo, released earlier this year in Japan for the Nintendo 3DS. In it a boy named Tim Goodman and Detective Pikachu solve various Pokémon mysteries while also trying to find Tim’s missing father.

Universal Pictures will distribute the film outside of Japan, and Toho will release the film in that country. There is no word yet on a release date.

All-female DC villains’ movie

DC has come up with a brand new idea and a plot for its new movie! The movie is apparently called Gotham City Sirens with ‘all of female villains’ from the DC universe.

Director David Ayer is said to be attached to the project. The good news is that the screenplay will be written by Geneva Robertson-Dworet, a top female action movie writer who wrote the scripts for the Tomb Raider remake and Sherlock Holmes 3. Sirens was a comic book series based around some of Batman’s lady enemies such as Harley, Poison Ivy and Catwoman.

Hollywood Reporter adds that a Suicide Squad sequel and a standalone film about Will Smith’s Deadshot are still in the works, but the Sirens movie was ‘the most furthest along’.

Published in Dawn, Young World, December 31st, 2016