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It Took Detective Pikachu Producers 7 Years to Bring the Live-Action Movie to Theaters

He can now say a lot more than “Pika! Pika!” Photo: Warner Bros.

In 2012, Los Angeles-based film producer Cale Boyter cold-called the Pokémon Company and tried to set up a pitch meeting.

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His idea: a live-action movie dedicated to the video game/anime franchise filled with Pocket Monsters of varying and onomatopoeic names — Charizard, Bulbasaur, Wartortle. He and his two elementary school-aged sons had spent countless hours playing the trading card version of the game. That’s when Boyter had his epiphany. He should mount a non-cartoon, English-language version of the Japanese cultural export that’s maintained a two-decade stranglehold on American youth.

Boyter’s colleagues Mary Parent and Ali Mendes were on the call too, all three of them desperately trying to get through to the company’s Seattle office to sell their big idea.

The American representatives who fielded the call were cordial Cale Boyter - Biography - IMDb GEBAJ