Pokémon Detective Pikachu trolls internet with fake movie leak
By Milan Charles on Wednesday, May 8, 2019
The team behind Detective Pikachu have this week successfully trolled the internet with a fake leak of the new live-action movie.
On Tuesday night the upcoming movie Pokémon film was seemingly leaked in its entirety by a mysterious YouTube account. The 1 hour 43 minute video was then shared on Twitter by a new account simply called “Inspector Pikachu”.
POKÉMON Detective Pikachu — FULL MOVIE — https://t.co/qsqXvUOpvI
— Inspector Pikachu (@InspectrPikachu) May 7, 2019
Ryan Reynolds, the voice of Pikachu himself, tweeted the link under the guise of alerting Warner Bros.
Um…. Attn @DetPikachuMovie @warnerbros https://t.co/UF7qYtKOYV
— Ryan Reynolds (@VancityReynolds) May 7, 2019
However upon watching, viewers saw that the ‘leaked’ video included 5 or so minutes of what looked like the actual opening sequence of ‘Detective Pikachu’ (complete with a screener watermark which says ‘R. Reynolds.’) followed by 102 minutes of Pikachu performing aerobics on a dance floor.
The ‘full movie’ saw over 4 million views in its first 14 hours on YouTube.
