Kingdom Hearts, Sq. Enix’s Disney x Last Fantasy crossover, has been round so lengthy it’s shocking we haven’t gotten some sort of animated sequence or movie prior to now. Issues bought shut at one level about 20 years in the past, and you’ll find a tough animatic of the pilot that includes the unique sport’s voice expertise. However in accordance with the rumors, one thing on a a lot greater scale may be within the works over at Disney: an animated theatrical movie.
The supply of that is Disney-centric outlet The DisInsider. Website founder Skyler Shuler wrote in regards to the Kingdom Hearts film in a mailbag put up, saying sources had informed the positioning a movie adaptation of the crossover RPGs might be heading to theaters sooner or later. The challenge began as one thing that may be launched on the Disney+ streaming service, however The DisInsider says extra lately it has heard the purpose was to have one thing on the large display. This traces up with one other report from movie trade insider DanielRPK, who claimed a Kingdom Hearts adaptation was within the works at Disney on April 26. Nonetheless, in accordance with The DisInsider, nothing has been greenlit. So this may occasionally nonetheless be one other animated Kingdom Hearts challenge that goes nowhere.
The notion of a Kingdom Hearts film meant for normal audiences is difficult to think about, in any case, following twenty years of the sequence spinning its personal complicated lore. Even when it began from the start and will ease viewers into the Disney world-jumping thought, I nonetheless have a tough time picturing every Disney world getting ample quantities of display time in roughly 90 minutes. They might go the Last Fantasy VII: Creation Kids route of throwing any notion of capturing a normal viewers out the window and make one thing that requires established information, however Disney doesn’t appear to be it might take that sort of danger lately.
Whereas the film sounds prefer it’s within the early levels of growth, we do know what’s subsequent for the Kingdom Hearts video games. Kingdom Hearts IV was revealed in 2022 and appears to increase the sequence’ already expansive multiverse into one thing that resembles the true world. We don’t know what kind the Disney crossover worlds will take, however the sequence could have much more materials to work with as Disney has launched a number of animated motion pictures previously decade that Kingdom Hearts has but to the touch.
