Live-Action ‘Pokemon’ Movie Casts Lead

‘Big Little Lies’, ‘Supernatural’, Lady Bird and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri actress Kathryn Newton looks set to be cast as the lead in Legendary’s live-action adaptation of famous anime and video game series Pokemon after a successful auditioning campaign.

The actress will join ‘The Get Down’ actor Justice Smith in the picture titled Detective Pikachu, which will tell the tale of a Pikachu (a mouse-like Pokemon with electric powers) running an investigation with a boy. Newton will play a curious journalist who goes on the journey with the boy and the Pokemon.

Production on the movie is due to start in London in January, with the picture being directed by Rob Letterman (Gulliver’s Travels – 2010; Goosebumps – 2015) and working from a script by Alex Hirsch and Nicole Perlman.

Source: THR