The Pokémon Company’s longtime movie collaborator, Toho, will handle distribution of the film franchise in Japan, as it had similarly done in its partnership with Legendary on Godzilla.
His most recent film was the live-action Goosebumps and he also directed the CG film Monters Vs.
As we learned this summer from Deadline, the feature franchise will be built around Detective Pikachu, a character in the Pokemon universe.
The inclusion of the two to help lay the groundwork for what this film could become is definitely intriguing.