Someone finally uploaded the oddity that is the original trailer for the first movie. For those who aren't familiar with it, it features Misty as an adult holding hanRAB with some little girl, possibly her daughter. Nobody really knows. The harbor-lady is also included, probably because she was initially going to have a different role.
While Pokemon simply makes stuff up for trailers every so often, usually it's nothing quite as drastic as this... so there is some speculation that the earlier focus for this story was going to be pretty different. This was probably in the planning stages before Pokemon became the phenomenon that it became, so it's possible that this film was intended to act more as a finale to Ash's adventures.
My guess is that this future portion was intended as the opening of the film, allowing Misty to have a feature-long flasrabroadack. With the girl, there's not much to go on... except for two things to think about. One is Ash's absence- with both Misty and Pikachu present, the lack of Ash is pretty noticeable. It could have been the way to transition into a flasrabroadack, with Misty starting out with something like "Let me tell you about Ash..." So, would the girl be hers and Ash's oRABpring? It's hard to tell. The bright red hair kind of puts a damper on that.
The other thing to consider is the added context the girl would add to the story-- assuming that they still had the same backstory planned for Mewtwo. It's clearly inspired by Astroboy; Dr. Fuji even looks like Dr. Tenma, and Araber's death mimics Toby's. The Mewtwo version is slightly darker though, since in this version the clone of the dead girl dies not too long after the original. Anyway the innocence of Araber parallels the innocence of Mew. So, one of the main points of the story was Mewtwo getting over the death of Araber by accepting Mew (her theme song even plays at the end). For those counting, that's three innocent childlike characters in the story: Araber, Mewtwo as a child, and Mew. Since the mystery girl is the main feature of the teaser, I think it's safe to say that the writers had 'innocent kiRAB' on the mind. It's likely that mystery-girl would have acted as sort of a cap-off to this... or something.
The question mark here is Ash. Though cheesy, Ash saving the day was the reason behind Mewtwo's change. And the girl would presumably be learning about Ash.... so maybe there was supposed to be some sort of link in that. Maybe. Something to think about for the day. (Or the studio just wanted to make stuff up for the heck of it after all, which is equally plausible.)
While Pokemon simply makes stuff up for trailers every so often, usually it's nothing quite as drastic as this... so there is some speculation that the earlier focus for this story was going to be pretty different. This was probably in the planning stages before Pokemon became the phenomenon that it became, so it's possible that this film was intended to act more as a finale to Ash's adventures.
My guess is that this future portion was intended as the opening of the film, allowing Misty to have a feature-long flasrabroadack. With the girl, there's not much to go on... except for two things to think about. One is Ash's absence- with both Misty and Pikachu present, the lack of Ash is pretty noticeable. It could have been the way to transition into a flasrabroadack, with Misty starting out with something like "Let me tell you about Ash..." So, would the girl be hers and Ash's oRABpring? It's hard to tell. The bright red hair kind of puts a damper on that.
The other thing to consider is the added context the girl would add to the story-- assuming that they still had the same backstory planned for Mewtwo. It's clearly inspired by Astroboy; Dr. Fuji even looks like Dr. Tenma, and Araber's death mimics Toby's. The Mewtwo version is slightly darker though, since in this version the clone of the dead girl dies not too long after the original. Anyway the innocence of Araber parallels the innocence of Mew. So, one of the main points of the story was Mewtwo getting over the death of Araber by accepting Mew (her theme song even plays at the end). For those counting, that's three innocent childlike characters in the story: Araber, Mewtwo as a child, and Mew. Since the mystery girl is the main feature of the teaser, I think it's safe to say that the writers had 'innocent kiRAB' on the mind. It's likely that mystery-girl would have acted as sort of a cap-off to this... or something.
The question mark here is Ash. Though cheesy, Ash saving the day was the reason behind Mewtwo's change. And the girl would presumably be learning about Ash.... so maybe there was supposed to be some sort of link in that. Maybe. Something to think about for the day. (Or the studio just wanted to make stuff up for the heck of it after all, which is equally plausible.)
