{"id":115078,"date":"2020-07-07T03:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T03:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/07\/random_niantic_got_rian_johnson_to_direct_a_pokemon_go_commercial"},"modified":"2020-07-07T03:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T03:30:00","slug":"random-niantic-got-rian-johnson-to-direct-a-pokemon-go-commercial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/07\/07\/random-niantic-got-rian-johnson-to-direct-a-pokemon-go-commercial\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: Niantic Got Rian Johnson To Direct A Pok\u00e9mon GO Commercial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/26569b70d13ab\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/26569b70d13ab\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/26569b70d13ab\/1280x720.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><\/figure>\n<p>Niantic&#8217;s augmented reality mobile game <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/mobile\/pokemon_go\">Pok\u00e9mon GO<\/a><\/strong> has just turned four years old. To celebrate in style, it&#8217;s teamed up with the <em>Star Wars: The Last Jedi<\/em> and <em>Knives Out<\/em> director, Rian Johnson, to produce a special commercial for Pok\u00e9mon GO Fest 2020 (taking place on 25th &#8211; 26th July).<\/p>\n<p>Johnson describes himself as a longtime trainer, and helped shape the concept of the video (below) with his &#8220;cinematic eye&#8221; and &#8220;vision&#8221; by peeling back the layers of everyday life to take a look closer at the experience of being a trainer.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;it was a real pleasure working with Niantic on this spot. It was a new experience for me to direct a production remotely, and I enjoyed the highly collaborative process and think we put together a fun and upbeat commercial that fans will enjoy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[embedded content]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first time Johnson has made Pok\u00e9mon GO headlines. Last December, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/12\/random_star_wars_director_appears_to_use_pokemon_go_to_comment_on_angry_fans\">he used the game to call out angry Star Wars fans<\/a> who didn&#8217;t like <em>The Last Jedi<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of his latest work? <em>Leave a comment down below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Niantic&#8217;s augmented reality mobile game Pok\u00e9mon GO has just turned four years old. To celebrate in style, it&#8217;s teamed up with the Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Knives Out director, Rian Johnson, to produce a special commercial for Pok\u00e9mon GO Fest 2020 (taking place on 25th &#8211; 26th July). Johnson describes himself as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}