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Reminder that they dubbed this movie months ago according to a tweet from Sarah.
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The difference there is all these live-action remakes Disney produces succeed in it's home country because the original movies also succeeded here. It literally takes a lot of mess ups (Like Solo: A Star Wars Story) for Disney to lose money on something. Pokémon on the other hand...
It's far from a failure, it's the most profitable franchise for a reason, but it's hay day from the 90's has long been over. You don't see commercial on television for the Pokémon movies that come to theaters or receive movie soundtracks to purchase physically. To compare Pokémon's success in animation to Disney is far from fair since Pokémon's leading position in profits is because if all it's assets; TCG, video games, manga, etc.
Momentum said:TPCi had the perfect opportunity to release this on Movie 1's release date anniversary, but didn't. They could have released this right before the launch of Sword & Shield, but didn't. If production started on this so long ago, I can't understand why it wouldn't get a theater release of some kind before Christmas for any other reason aside from their hesitation to have it bomb. It is no secret Sword & Shield had it's controversy, maybe they wanted to avoid another reason for people to drag their name through the dirt, I dunno.
I'm just saying, it's one thing when Disney remakes it's animated classics into live-action and/or CGI, but that doesn't automatically mean the same would have happened with Movie 22. From my standpoint anyway, I would be hesitant to gamble on a CGI remake of the first movie that would have a different cast (may re-ignite the VA recasting debate), different music (Goldfarb would not only be compared to Movie 22's score but the scores of the original movie as well), and presented in a way Pokémon movies have never looked before; full CGI. But that's just me, I'm more than willing to give this movie a try but I will not be shocked or surprised if TPCi chooses to skip this movie.
I think you might be surprised about the VA issue. True casuals i.e. kids and their reluctant parents wouldn't care and true Pokeani weirdos (read: us) are long since over it.I doubt the casual fans the movie would draw in due to nostalgia would hold that strong opinions about the Voice Recast, music score and Dexit, though.
I guess... I wasn’t around the Pokémon fandom when the switch happened, but I do know it led to chaos and people could hold strong opinions about that, and there’s also the people too picky about VAs (I remember similar issues surfacing about the Lion King live action when the trailer came out).I think you might be surprised about the VA issue. True casuals i.e. kids and their reluctant parents wouldn't care and true Pokeani weirdos (read: us) are long since over it.
But there is a significant minority of adult fans for whom the original English dub was their childhood, who don't really watch the anime anymore, but still turn up as paying customers to special events like orchestral concerts, PokeCen events and theatrical releases. I was surprised (and a little amusedI really enjoy turning up to these events in tow with a friend of mine who considers herself a Pokemon expert (she ain't), acting like a total Pokemon no0b and people watching as a bunch of beardy 20-30 somethings Genwunsplain the Pokemon anime to me lol, does that make me evil?) at the amount of bitching about 'New' Ash/Team Rocket I had to listen to when I went to I Choose You/Power of Us.
Yeah agree on this, sorry I was clear I got a bit carried away with my reminiscenceBut I don’t think the group would be significant enough to put a dent in the sales of the movie or warrant cancelling the release.
The original script has already been taken care of. 4Kids could only have the rights to the English script, but that's easy to replace (like the music) even if some iconic lines are left out. Judging from Anime Expo, they actually kept a lot of the lines for the subtitles, so I don't see why the actual dub wouldn't be allowed to use that script.WPM of Pokebeach did say that they had to go through hoops to get the M22 script from Shudo's family estate, and that's also why M16 had a female Mewtwo
Perhaps that is causing trouble on international fronts too. I'm guessing TPCi dubbed the movie in advance