What's Going On With The Next Pokemon Movie?
There’s never been a film series as consistent as Pokemon. There has been a Pokemon movie released every single summer, without fail, for the past 22 years. Until last year, the longest we’ve ever had to wait for a new movie was between Arceus and the Jewel of Life in November 2009 and Zoroark—Master of Illusions in February 2011. That 14-month gap happened one other time, between The Power of Us in 2018 and Mewtwo Strikes Back: Evolution in 2020, but in between was Detective Pikachu - if you count that as a Pokemon movie.
The wait for the most recent Pokemon movie was longer than the movie before it. From the release of Mewtwo Strikes Back: Evolution in February 2020, it was almost 19 months until the release of Secrets of the Jungle in October 2021. While the US release dates have shifted around, the Japanese releases have never changed before. Every single Pokemon movie has debuted in Japan in the second week of July - all of them except Secrets of the Jungle, which released on Christmas Day 2020.
22 years of consistent releases has obviously established some expectations. Every home release has included a teaser for the next Pokemon movie for at least the last decade. Those who saw The Power of Us in theaters were even treated to a trailer for Mewtwo Strikes Back: Evolution. The same goes for Secrets of the Jungle. Despite the long gap between movies, we still saw a trailer for Secrets of the Jungle at the end of Mewtwo Strikes Back. For the first time in Pokemon movie history, the next Pokemon movie was not teased at the end of Secrets of the Jungle. In fact, we still have no idea what the next Pokemon movie is, or if it's ever coming out.
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