Detective Pikachu probably won’t be the last time you see genuine individuals communicating with fictional pokémon. Netflix is allegedly in early improvement on a live-action Pokémon TV series, as per Variety, with Lucifer co-showrunner and executive producer Joe Henderson appended to shepherd the project to a screen close to you.

It seemed almost like an accident that Detective Pikachu occurred by any means, given the general haziness of the niche Pokémon side project game it depended on and Nintendo’s appearing hesitance to make a major swing on live-action adaptations after the magically lackluster quality of the Super Mario Bros. film. Lately, however, Nintendo’s been expanding into different mediums — like theme parks — and taking on new partners — like Ubisoft and its Rabbids franchise — so perhaps all is good and well for a popular Netflix show?

For Netflix, a Pokémon show is simply one more advance toward what it sees as its somewhat game-driven future. The organization as of now has a hit with The Witcher and apparently another with Castlevania, and it has Resident Evil and Tomb Raider shows in progress. It’s likewise clarified that it really needs to subsidize and convey portable games to its subscribers at no extra cost. A Pokémon show could proceed with a relationship with Nintendo it was at that point answered to develop. As right on time as 2015, it was supposed that Nintendo and Netflix were fostering a surprisingly realistic Legend of Zelda series, which was apparently dropped because of leaks.

That Zelda show never worked out as expected and given exactly how early this Pokémon project sounds, it’s entirely conceivable it ends up going the same way. Be that as it may, Nintendo and Netflix are in altogether different places than they were half a decade ago. Possibly this time live-action Pokémon lightning strikes twice.