The world first met Detective Pikachu through a video game in Japan, and further details of how his story will be told are being kept under wraps for the moment.
You can watch the trailer for the previously-released Great Detective Pikachu game for Nintendo in Japan below.
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Legendary Entertainment and The Pokémon Company have, according to a story today at Variety, found a writing pair for their upcoming live action Detective Pikachu movie in Alex Hirsch and Nicole Perlman.