Rob Letterman

In 1999, directed his first animated short film "Los gringos". In 2004, the directed animated film " Shark Tale, Sharkslayer " was released. The film was dubbed by Willard Christopher Smith Jr and Robert De Niro .   With this film, he was nominated for The 32nd Annual Annie Awards for the best animated film screenwriter   . In 2009, he co-directed the action comedy movie " Monsters vs. Aliens " with Conrad Vernon . 

In 2010, the directed adventure comedy film " Gulliver's Travels " was released, which was co-starred by Jack Black , Emily Blunt , and Jason Segel  . In 2015, the directed adventure comedy film " Goosebumps " was released, which was adapted from the phenomenon-level novel of the same name by RL Stein   .

On May 10, 2019, the comedy film " Pokémon Detective Pikachu " directed by him was released. The film was adapted from the Nintendo 3DS game of the same name. It tells the story of Pokémon Detective Pikachu and Tim meeting in Lyme. The story of my father’s bizarre disappearance and the fact that he joins hands in investigating the case and pursuing the truth   .

Rob Letterman has rich experience in the creation of real people combined with CG   . In the movie "Pokémon Detective Pikachu", the director Rob Letterman achieved the penetration of cultural and even ideological barriers through the practice of transparent narrative, and completed the coverage of audiences of all ages and children/things/players and non-players   . Moreover, the post-modernist approach was chosen as one of the methods for the second creation of "Pokemon", which minimized the "foreignness" of Pikachu's IP. At the same time, the intertextuality and hybridity brought about by postmodernism gave the audience a broader space for interpretation of the .