Netflix has been incredibly eager in diversifying and adding more depth to their interest in dabbling with video game properties to mobile devices at no additional cost to your subscription plan, and it appears in the coming weeks and months, it's starting to bear fruit. In a story by Variety, it's reported that a brand new Pokemon story is very early in development. Sources indicate that Netflix's Lucifer and White Collar writer Joe Henderson has been signed on as show-runner and executive producer. This will be the second live-action North American Pokemon project, following 2019's Detective Pikachu, which starred Syan Reynolds and Justice Smith.

Since it seems all but confirmed that a sequel to Detective Pikachu is incredibly unlikely, and whether or not this live action series will bear any connection to the film remains to be seen. It's also not the first time Netflix has expressed interest in providing adaptations of anime for the streaming service, as seen with 2018's western interpretation of Death Note, a manga written by Tsugumi Ohba and published in North America by Viz Media. In 2020, Netflix also aired the CGI remake of the first Pokemon movie, which was met with mixed results from fans of the original. Sega had revealed the upcoming animated series, Sonic Prime, set to air in 2022. 

With Pokemon being the global phenomenon it has become over two decades, there will be vested interest in more works that experiments with its lore.

SOURCES: Variety