‘Detective Pikachu’ Director Rob Letterman to Adapt Video

Another traditional online game is getting the film therapy: Ubisoft’s 2003 cult favourite “Beyond Good and Evil,” with “Pokemon: Detective Pikachu” director Rob Letterman hooked up to direct at Netflix, two people with data of the venture advised TheWrap.

The movie can be a hybrid of reside motion and animation, and Netflix is at present in early improvement on the venture.

Released in 2003, “Beyond Good and Evil” is a sci-fi motion and journey sport set within the yr 2435. The story follows Jade, a younger photojournalist who searches for the reality about an ongoing battle and an alien menace on her distant dwelling planet, suspecting that army leaders could also be collaborating with the aliens.

“We’re excited to work with Netflix on the ‘Beyond Good and Evil’ feature film and we look forward to sharing more in the future,” Ubisoft Film and Television mentioned in an announcement to TheWrap.

Created by “Rayman” creator Michel Ancel, was a business failure upon its launch in 2003 and plans for a sequel had been scrapped. But it acquired a devoted cult following and has since been acknowledged for its revolutionary animation model, story and setting. “Beyond Good and Evil” has since been restored in HD in 2011 and at E3 2017 it was introduced {that a} prequel is in improvement.

Letterman is thought for “Goosebumps,” “Shark Tale” and most just lately “Pokemon: Detective Pikachu,” which $433 million worldwide on a $150 million funds.

Video sport variations have been all the fad of late following the field workplace success of not simply Letterman’s “Detective Pikachu” but additionally “Sonic the Hedgehog.” Both of these properties are getting sequels, however different widespread or cult favourite video games with movie or collection variations within the works in latest months embrace “Disco Elysium,” “The Last of Us” and “Borderlands,” with others like “Uncharted” and “Monster Hunter” nonetheless on the horizon.

Letterman is represented by UTA and lawyer Eric Sherman at Ziffren Brittenham.

THR first reported the information of the venture.