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A top-secret auction for film rights to the Pokemon franchise is nearing completion with Thomas Tull’s Legendary Entertainment attempting to nudge aside Warner Bros., which has pursued the property aggressively, according to sources. Sony also is said to be very interested.

A spokesperson for Legendary, which since January is a division of China's Dalian Wanda Group, declined to comment. But the notion of a Chinese-owned company acquiring a beloved Japanese property could raise a stir given historic tensions between the two countries.

The Pokemon Co., the Japanese outfit that manages the rights to the franchise spun from the hit Nintendo game, has been courting Hollywood to launch a big-budget live-action movie. Warner Bros. was among the early favorites to take the task on considering it already released the animated Pokemon: The First Movie in 1999 (it grossed $165 million worldwide) and two low-budget sequels.

 

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Eh. We'll see. The last thing Pokemon needs is another avenue to pander to genwunners.



I hope this is false.



                                                                                     

Make the movie similar to Jurassic Park with the Safari Zone and it could work.

Heck, make the title of the movie just be Safari Zone and Pokemon fans and movie fans will understand the movie immediately.



Live action....Gross.



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Not a fan of live action movies..



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Why not CGI animated movies? That fits Nintendo's IP better than live action crap.



Anyone remember this?



...yeah, me neither...



"Just for comparison Uncharted 4 was 20x bigger than Splatoon 2. This shows the huge difference between Sony's first-party games and Nintendo's first-party games."

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Anyone remember this?



...yeah, me neither...

Burn. It. Now.



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Guys its so simple. Remember the episode Island of the Giant Pokemon in season 1? When Ash and the gang and Team Rocket get stranded on a Pokemon amusement park full of gigantic robotic Pokemon?

That's what this move could be. 

Of course the Pokemon won't be robots and their sizes would be what they are in the games. But the setting of finding a new island full of different creatures could be used pretty well for the first live action Pokemon movie.