Detective Pikachu Artist Reveals That Arcanine Originally Had A Larger Role In The Movie

Realistic Pokemon artist R J Palmer is back with more concept art that he worked on for the Detective Pikachu film! This time, however, he dredges up a very juicy tidbit about the movie’s initial development.

In particular, Palmer mentions that the canine Pokemon Arcanine once played a larger role – as Tim Goodman’s partner! It’s not clear why this changed later on, although the concept art does give us a better look at just how huge Arcanine would have been in CG.

Check it out below.