When we released The End of Pokémon in 2019, most of the comments we got were basically that Fry from Futurama meme, waving cash around and yelling: “Shut up and take my money!”

A lot of people are still waiting for us to turn that fake trailer into the feature film it was clearly meant to be.

What a shame we don’t own the Pokémon rights.

The world missed out on one hell of a violence festival.

The counterpoint to Pokémon’s kindergarten vibe came from the suffocating, deranged atmosphere of Hotline Miami.

We wanted to smash both ideas together into one endless cerebral hernia.

Bruno Suárez and Marcos Álvarez did an outstanding job capturing the musical mood we were after and giving real sonic texture to the boat hunt sequence.

We didn’t want to make something short. We wanted our Pokémon movie blowing up the box office in theaters all over the world. So when reality came crashing back in, we had no idea what to do with that much material.

It was Adi Shankar who said, “Why don’t you make a fake trailer, like Grayson?” That line changed everything. That was the spark we needed to get things moving.

Below you can see some character designs that were meant to appear in the movie, but had to be cut from the trailer. In that feature version, we wanted to move away from the usual protagonists of the series and dig into the darker personalities hiding inside this universe of boxing plush toys.

And Now for Something Completely Different…

Pokémon Trainers Juanma Laguna, Borja Sauras, Sergio Abalo, Spundman, Marcos Cabal and Laura Rabanal were the ones who collected the most Poké Balls during the making of this short film.

Gym Leaders
Enol Junquera and Luis Junquera
wrote, produced, and directed
the story they’d been dreaming about since childhood.

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