The idea of Koga being a villain comes from the manga Pokemon Adventures which is what the anime is very loosely based off in which Koga, Lt. Surge and Sabrina were all top lieutenants of team rocket. Also in my mind, Giovanni never was at the front nor did he do any of the grunt work so I went with Koga instead.
If a movie is made, it's gonna be made for the kids, so don't expect a Dark Night. If they try and mature it up just to unkiddify the movie, they fail. Also, your asking a crowd that may be fans, but are not the target demographic a Pokemon movie would want, so obviously the crowd will say don't do it. This is the same crowd that would hate on live action versions of Smurfs, Scooby Doo, and Alvin and the Chipmunks. Even with them hating and not going to see those movies, the movies did well, cause it cattered to their targets. As far as how I would do the movie, Rip off the Karate Kid and add Pokemon.
Ah I see , thing is though for a US release you would pretty have to use Giovanni over Koga as the game and anime got way more exposure here than the manga and in the anime and game none of the gym leaders had connections to team rocket save for Giovanni. To use Koga as the main villain would just confuse fans. But I do agree that he was a behind the scenes guy after all you had to fight through a host of rocket's to get a crack at him.
don't. you can't animate pikachu well at all and it'll end up destroying the childhood of millions (especially if Bay was the director). don't. f*cking. do it. simple
harry potter films were not really made for kids though. they were made more for young adults. especially the later ones.
I agree with everyone who is saying the best way is to not make one, I really don't think it would translate well to live action, look at Dragonball Evolution, or The Last Airbender (though I don't consider Avatar to be an anime, but whatever) anime or anime-like TV shows typically don't translate well to live action, the only other live action adaptation of an anime that I can think of off the top of my head is Death Note, but I hear that it didn't turn out so well either
There's just some stuff that can't be done in live action Pokemon happens to be one. Digimon on the other hand...
Fixed. If it DOES happen it should, you know, just be Pokemon. I think that would be the best approach, rather than stupid American-ization.
I had an idea of going by the games and loosly on the anime. You can still make movies years after and don't have to worry about a 40 year old man playing a young adult. First movie will be called Pokemon: kanto region red and be the origin of red who will be called ash for the reason of people remember ash. He makes friends with misty and Brock and gets a few badges. Pokemon Kanto region blue Ash earns the rest of the badges and stops most of team rocket. Pokemon Kanto region green Ash goes to defeat the elite 4 and become champion. Pokemon Kanto region yellow The hunt to stop mewtwo a lab creation gone wrong and defeat team rocket. The Pokemon jotoh region silver Starts with the character from the g,s,c series. The jotoh region gold And in crystal it the return of red for the ending battle. Then the series goes on and recreating moments from the games in a more entertaining way for a movie and not the anime. Black and white series would be epic. My look will be a some what realistic and not cartoonie and have characters be 18 and not 10.
I was just about to say something similar. Pokemon is harder to adapt because it doesn't really have much of a plot. What you have is Ash trying to find and train Pokemon so he can be a master trainer. You would have to make some changes for that to work. With Digimon, that had a plot and the Digimon were actual characters. The humans were also developed well. Plus, you have a fate of two worlds kinda thing going on. I'm not saying a Pokemon movie can't work though, I'm just saying that Digimon would translate better to movies. I once heard someone say that anything can work in fiction, you just have to make it work.
