It’s not that the competition is fierce, but it is possible that ‘Detective Pikachu’ is the best film based on a video game ever made, although perhaps everything will change after ‘The last of us’ and they will start to take it seriously . This realistic Pokémon world could have been a complete dud, but all the creatures worked., the detective plot was not a horror and the adaptation, even touching the Uncanny Valley continuously, never fell into ridicule. But since 2019 nothing is known about a sequel that now, finally, seems to be taking direction.
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In January 2019 it was already announced that a second part was being worked on. with Oren Uziel as a screenwriter. The author of the scripts for ‘Mortal Kombat’ or ‘The Cloverfield Paradox’ got down to it, but two years later and a pandemic involved Justice Smith asked for caution in expectations because he did not think it would happen as much as we all wanted to. Given the 433 million that the original film grossed, not making a sequel was shooting yourself a poke-shot in the foot.
And so it has been. Finally, it has been confirmed that the new director will be Jonathan Krisel, co-creator of ‘Portlandia’ and ‘Baskets’ as well as episode and sketch director for ‘Tim & Eric awesome show, good job!’ (which hopefully one day we can all enjoy on HBO Max) or The Lonely Island. in his day it was announced that Krisel would make the famous movie ‘Sesame Street’ to which Bo Burnham would put music, but he was left in limbo of lost projects: he is a very personal, humorous and unique director, a more than curious choice for ‘Detective Pikachu 2’.
Oren Uziel’s script will be rewritten by Chris Galletta, writer for David Letterman that he already liked at Sundance a decade ago with ‘The Kings of Summer’. It is still unknown if Ryan Reynolds will voice Pikachu once again, but given the success of the first part, and despite its ending, it would be strange if he did not. At the moment we do not know anything about a possible release dateNeither the movie nor the sequel to the video game that Nintendo announced in 2019. Can we talk about the curse of ‘Detective Pikachu 2’ now?