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NEWS: Hollywood Reporter: Legendary, Warner, Sony Bid for Live-Action Pokémon Rights

Just to point out what someone's mentioned before on a different forum about this topic, most Asian countries have a culture of not wanting to draw attention to themselves, hoping that problems will eventually be smoothed out. The whole collectivist vs. individualist type of society thing. Although it may be a little different for Asian Americans, but I imagine they have a similar mentality from their upbringing. It's definitely not an ideal mentality to have in this very vocal society.

Please let it be about Mewtwo! Mewtwo is the best Pokemon!

Also if you do make it about Mewtwo make him the hero and Ash and co the bad guys, they are animal molesters after all! They do not deserve to be called the good guys! Let Mewtwo see what humanity does to the poor Pokemons and fight us for them! Let him be the "Squealer" of the film.

Giving the fans what they want isn't necessarily the easiest path to success especially given how varied and different those interests may be. And you actually better run the risk of screwing things up that way. Plus honestly movie projects even those based off existing works shoild be the director and the scriptwriters trying to make the work they want making a few tweaks here and there instead of pandering to a sometimes picky and entitled crowd.

Stilted as the prequels may have been in their storytelling and motivations of some characters. Still better than evil empire being evil just because and lone retired Jedi and a motley crew aboard a stolen spaceship rescuing princess with silly looking hair.

But will he eat onigiri or sandwiches?

Hollywood, please stop destroying our childhoods.

Hollywood will cast Justin Bieber as Ashe.

I should point out that, in an interview in one of those recent Shonen Jump author books, that Eiichiro Oda, author of One Piece, actually likes the prequel trilogy. His reason is because its world-building is unparalleled, and he believes it would be fun to live in a world as is depicted in the prequels.

Forget about whitewashing…does Pokemon even translate that well with a real-life depiction? Yes, it is just animal creatures fighting each other, but the property does not strike me as one that would necessarily work gracefully in a live-action setting or one that really needs to be done as such, at all. The Pokemon would likely look and act ridiculous if rendered in a more realistic manner or out-of-place if they retained their cartoony look to some degree in a 2.5D/4D mix. I'm not one of those type that act as if no animated or video game property can be done in live-action, but some work better than ones, and presentation is one of the very top concerns. With something like Pokemon, I'm having difficulty seeing how it could properly be done.

I don't see anything that a live-action adaption of Pokemon could offer than anime can not.

Story-wise, it would be incredibly rushed. A big complaint about The Origin was it was rushed and reduced a lot of key things like gym battles to a few second cutscenes. If the movie is going to follow the whole collect 8 badges and fight the champion story, it will be heavily condensed and rushed..