In the last few hours, Pokémon fans worldwide have been left reeling from a massive Game Freak leak that has uncovered thousands of files from past, present, and future games. One of the most impactful revelations from this breach is the unveiling of ‘Pokémon Movie 24’, an adult-themed reboot movie that might have been lost in production.
Bring Them Back
Per a post on social media revealing the contents of the files, Codename Bauer has been in development since 2021 and was supposed to be released in 2023. It’s not clear what has happened to the film.
It was claimed that this film would have tackled ‘adult themes’ like bullying and suicide, and it was designed to be a reboot that would ‘reconnect with lapsed fans’ to bring back more grown-up viewers.
Here’s what the post claimed on Twitter:
It’s set in modern Kanto and the main Mythical Pokémon of the plot is Mew. Two new protagonists: Light and Akari (male / female). Directed by Kobun Shizuno (Detective Conan).
Alongside this sat a claim that a new Pokémon anime (Codename Reload) and a follow-up movie to Detective Pikachu are both in the works. The recent Game Freak leaks revealed everything about these projects right down to full plot outlines.
Codename Reload has reportedly been produced with Twin Engine, known for A Whisker Away. It consists of 12 episodes that’ll be delivered over a year, being broadcast on platforms like Netflix and Amazon Prime.
Like Codename Bauer, the future of the production is unclear as it should have already been published.
Game Freak addressed these leaks, stressing that the breach occurred in August and that remediation efforts have been made to mitigate the data loss.
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They should just make Pokémon Origins a full blown anime that’s what the adults want, another thing is the manga as an anime. Prequel anime with young Sam Oak would be great and the obvious Ash’s dad finally revealed! I’m fine with it being Oak, Oak’s son making Gary and Ash cousins, adult Red, or the old man Silver from the anime.
We don’t need Detective Pikachu that movie is an abomination! Give me adult Ash, Legends Arceus the anime, Origins as a full show, the manga adapted into an anime or OVA miniseries or anything like that over that awful movie getting a sequel.
They should hire Mamoru Hosoda to direct a Pokémon project also Digimon should bring him back to direct and finally get to anniversary projects for Tamers, Frontiers, and Savers/Data Squad. I wish the Digimon Cybersleuth games got a full blown anime adaption like from Seiji Kishi the way he did the Persona 4 The Animation anime and get rid of the character Fei from the adaption.
I think PalWorld shook them up good! Make an actual good Pokémon anime again. Origins should have been a full blown show.
Still want to know who Ash’s dad is confirm who it is, the origin of Pokémon because originally it was they came from a meteorite and now Arceus and what were those ancient times like when they first arrived, also Arceus’s banishment of Giratina, and obviously explore space Deoxys was just there and no further exploration into that.