Like the video game that came before, Detective Pikachu will follow a boy who goes adventuring with one of these electrically-charged mouse creatures.
Oh, and Detective Pikachu speaks like a normal human rather than just repeats some variation of his name like most other Pokemon.
As for Nighy, I’m crossing my fingers that he’s playing Professor Oak, but I realize that the chances of that being the case are slim since Detective Pikachu isn’t connected in any way to the Pokemon anime or original video games.
When the father of Detective Pikachu’s male protagonist, Tim Goodman, goes missing, Tim must team up with the eponymous Pokemon and a junior investigative reporter named Lucy to find him.