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When a company is\u00a0granted the rights to make a movie based on a beloved video game franchise, there\u2019s a terrible tendency to take almost everything fans love about the game and toss it\u00a0out of the window in favor of whatever storylines or ideas that the director, writers, producers, or studios thought would make a better film. And they tend to fail. Hard. More often than not.<\/p>\n
If you want some examples, see Max<\/em> Payne<\/em>, Hitman<\/em>, Bloodrayne<\/em>, Super<\/em> Mario<\/em> Bros<\/em>., Doom<\/em>, etc. Or rather, just don\u2019t… These are merely a few examples of what bad video game movies can be, and yet somehow they\u2019re generally the norm – an unfortunate state of affairs for video game fans the world over.<\/p>\n Things might be changing, though! It would seem that Hollywood may have learned from their past mistakes and decided to start with a good story this time.<\/p>\n Following an announcement made by Legendary Pictures that they had won the rights to make a Pok\u00e9mon<\/em><\/a> movie, Variety is reporting<\/a> that Nicole Perlman (co-writer of the Guardians of the Galaxy<\/em> and Captain Marvel<\/em> movies) along with Alex Hirsch (writer of the critically-acclaimed Gravity Falls<\/em> TV series that aired on Disney) are in negotiations to pen the Pok\u00e9mon<\/em> movie script.<\/p>\n Based on Nintendo\u2019s adventure-mystery game, Detective Pikachu<\/em>, the film is set to be a live-action telling of the game\u2019s story, which involves a Pikachu<\/a> who can\u2019t fight like the others, so he instead uses his incredible intellect to go around the city solving mysteries.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s the trailer for the game:<\/p>\n