Chris Galletta will pen the sequel to the 2019 film
Entertainment news website Deadline reported on Friday that Jonathan Krisel (portlandia) is in talks to direct the sequel of Legendary Entertainment And Warner Bros. live action pokemon detective pikachu film. Chris Galleta (the Kings of summer) is writing the screenplay.
Entertainment news website The Hollywood Reporter originally reported in 2019 that Oren Uziel (Sonic the Hedgehog film, The Clover Paradox, 22 Jump Street) was writing the script.
rob lettermanlive-action pokemon detective pikachu The film opened in May 2019. It grossed an estimated cumulative total of US$140,788,081 in the United States, and an estimated US$279,500,000 internationally for an estimated cumulative worldwide total of US$420,288,081.
The film had the highest US opening weekend box office for any film adaptation of a video game (adjusted for inflation), topping US$54 million opening weekend earnings. lara croft tomb raider US$47.7 million in 2001.
Film stars Justice Smith as the main character Tim Goodman and Ryan Reynolds as Detective Pikachu. Letterman directed the film, wrote the screenplay nicole perlman and Letterman.
based on the movie detective pikachu game, which shipped for nintendo The 3DS launched in Japan in 2016 and in the West in March 2018. the pokemon company announced in 2019 that a detective pikachu the game will start nintendo Change.
Source: Deadline (Justin Kroll)