It’s hard to overstate the impact that Detective Pikachu had when it first released last year. Although it certainly wasn’t everyone’s favorite movie of 2019, it nonetheless proved that live-action adaptations of video games could be faithful, well-produced, and emotionally resonant after audiences had been fed nothing but Hollywood’s stalest leftovers for decades. With that success in mind, the fact that Legendary Pictures quickly greenlit a second one seems like a no-brainer in retrospect, and we also know that they have plans to spin the series off into a whole Pokémon cinematic universe.

Not only that, but sources close to Wgtc – the same ones who told us Ahsoka Tano would be in The Mandalorian and the Joker will have a new look in the Justice League Snyder Cut, both of which were correct – say that the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s very own Spider-Man is being considered for...