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    POKÉMON GO TO THE MOVIES

    Jun 19, 2019 6 minutes

    When preproduction for Pokémon: Detective Pikachu started in January 2017, the original plan was that principal photography would commence in August 2017, but that was later shifted to January 2018. “There is no version of us making this movie without that full year of prep, as Pikachu alone took us six months [to develop],” states production visual effects supervisor Erik Nordby, who previously collaborated with filmmaker Rob Letterman on Goosebumps. “Doing 60 characters in any movie is an absolute massive outlay of time, energy and resources, and add to that the necessary rounds of approval with The Pokémon Company. We spent four to five hours almost nightly for about four to five months calling Tokyo and also made trips there. You can’t force the trust that allows for compromises.”

    HUMAN OR ANIMALISTIC

    A decision needed to be made as to whether human or animalistic behaviours would be adopted for characters such as Pikachu. “We rooted our tests into those two different worlds,”

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