Oh Boy!
Insider murmurs are pointing to the possibility that Disney is currently developing a TV adaptation of mega-popular RPG series Kingdom Hearts. The rumours purport th⛦at the animated show is being developed for th💎e Disney+ service at some point in the future.
The story first appeared of The Cinema Spot’s Emre Kaya, who claims that Disney turned to Kingdom Hearts producer Square Enix to create a CGI pilot, after The House of Mouse’s original plans for a live-action adaptation fell through. This story was then backed up by the Editor-in-Chief of Disney Insider Skyler Shuler, that the video games’ original voice-actors will be returning to their respective roles.
All of the above sounds like a no-brainer project – Kingdom Hearts has an enormous fanbase and a wealth of characters and lore to draw upon – but it also sounds incredibly time-consuming and staggeringly expensive. It’s not as if Disney doesn’t have the money, it could buy me tomorrow (I’d be Director-in-Charge of Villainous Queens), but a full-CGI Kingdom Hearts TV series would be an incredible undertaking. I think, given the mammoth cast and fathoms-deep lore, a TV series might be a better fit for Kingdom Hearts over a movie. But for now, in any case, we’ll just have to wait and see.
Kingdom Hearts III is available now on PS4 and Xbox One.
Published: May 27, 2020 09:00 am