It seems like the Pokemon Company is in the middle of talks for putting Pokemon back on the big screen and this time in live action. Even more, three big name studios are in a bidding war to get their hands on putting Pikachu in living color.
The Pokemon Company has recently started putting the rights for a Pokemon live action movie on the table in Hollywood. Legendary, Sony and Warner Bros. have all express interesting in the live action rights. Warner Bros. were an early favorite for the rights and previously worked with Pokemon with the release of the first three Pokemon movies. Though it now seems like Legendary will be the ones to most likely acquire the rights for a live action production of a Pokemon movie. Those who are familiar with movies may recognize Legendary as the motion picture company behind The Dark Knight trilogy, Man of Steel, Pacific Rim, Godzilla and Jurassic World.
No word on who will emerge with the rights of a Pokemon live action movie or what a possible script may involve. We have seen Pokemon experiment with putting Pokemon in the live action world recently with the Pokemon GO trailer and Super Bowl 50 commercial. So maybe those were just experiments with putting Pokemon in a live action setting. Only time will tell as this story develops.
Source: Hollywood Reporter
