The Lumiose Civil War

The Lumiose Civil War is a 2021 Japanese-American anime superhero film produced by The Pokémon Company, OLM Inc., Entertainment One, Legendary Pictures, Vertigo Entertainment, Gozie AGBO Productions, and Toho and distributed by Lionsgate. It was directed by Daiki Tomiyasu (in his feature directorial debut) from a screenplay by Atsuhiro Tomioka, Aya Matsui, Erik Sommers, Kunihiko Yuyama, and Jon Watts. Based on the characters from Satoshi Tajiri's Pokémon media franchise and Pokémon XYZ, the nineteenth season of the Pokémon anime series and the third and final season of Pokémon the Series: XY, the film is a collaboration between production houses from Japan and the United States, the first animated film in the Pokémon franchise to be set in the same timeline as the anime since Pokémon the Movie: Volcanion and the Mechanical Marvel and the final Pokémon anime film overall. The film features Sarah Natochenny, Ikue Ōtani, Haven Paschall, Mike Liscio Jr., Alyson Leigh Rosenfeld, Lisa Ortiz, Dan Green, and Wayne Grayson reprising their respective roles from the anime along with Chris Pine, LeBron James, Florence Pugh, David Tennant, Jared Leto, Ben Kingsley, Alejandra Reynoso, Will Smith, Natasia Demetriou, Giancarlo Esposito, Robbie Coltrane, Christopher Walken, Julie Walters, Chris Sabat, Denzel Washington, and Andrew Garfield voicing new characters. It's plot concerns the superheroes in every region being threatened to come under government control after a mission in Lumiose City goes south, splitting the protesters into two sides: one led by Pokémon trainer Ash Ketchum (Natochenny) and Unovan superhero Mighty Accelguard (Green) and the other led by Lumiose City gym leader Clemont (Liscio) and his father, the superhero protector of Lumiose City that is Blaziken Mask (Grayson).