Ryan Reynolds is Detective Pikachu

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Exclusive: @VancityReynolds to star in Pokemon movie 'Detective Pikachu' https://t.co/wobjYdOHyR pic.twitter.com/PjCXGyivT0
- Hollywood Reporter (@THR) December 6, 2017

The role is supportedly motion capture. Pikachu will help a boy find his missing father. Universal is handling distribution outside of Japan, Toho - in Japan.

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