>>27139422Now based on what I've read and heard, let's talk about Max Landis. I'm not his biggest fan, his work is flawed, but I think he could
relatively have the safest hands to handle this. Remember all of those awful, generic, unfunny jokes about Pokémon=dogfighting from every
normie Pokémon parody ever? well he thinks that's fucking stupid. He sees Pokémon battles as a sport, and from the looks of it he knows it's not just giving your Pokémon orders. He mentioned he knows it's about friendship, about the journey, Pokémon is inspirational, etcetera. Four Pokémon he's mentioned (still not sure if they're just his favorite ones or this is the MC's actual Pokémon team) are apparently Koffing, Graveler, Arcanine and Psyduck. So not your typical Charizard-Mewtwo-Pikachu nostalgiafag. I think #LandisPokémon is really happening, like, really really happening, in a specific tweet from early 2016 the sneaky bastard put names of his 2016 projects inside his sentence, included the phrase "if I wanna catch'em all", plus a plethora of other hints that he's written a Pokémon script, including what might be a line for the movie. Nothing explicit about it though. If this is happening, however, it sounds like he's going the Standalone way and I would still watch a movie based on his script any day over Warner Bros picking a trendy director and writer for Pokémon: Pokécalypse: Dawn of Darkness ft.concept art from arvalis. Max, while many of us think he's a spoiled, faggot looking asshole, he just gets it. He's undeniably smart about it and he's smart when it comes to good stories. He's the type of guy that can get DB Evolution and fix it.
Not that that's hard.My final argument about Max being the not-worst guy for the job, at least the writing job: he specifically said Pokémon needs to be bright. It's what it's all about, if you could sum up the whole franchise's point in one word I think it'd be: Friendship.
