Disney Plus allows you to get an exclusive Kingdom Hearts series

Disney Plus allows you to get an exclusive Kingdom Hearts series

If you've been following Disney Plus, you know that we could use a few more exclusive shows. Everyone loved The Mandalorian, but it hasn't had a big hit since and probably needs one. The House of Mouse may be planning to fix that with arguably the strangest property in its arsenal: Kingdom Hearts.

According to The Cinema Spot reporter Emre Kaya, the most complex video game series in history may be getting a Disney Plus adaptation. (Not much information is available yet, but Kaya said that Square Enix will be in charge of production and that it will be CG animation, not live action.

Skyler Schuler, editor-in-chief of The DisInsider, also shared what she knows about the project. Kingdom Hearts will not be a stand-alone movie, but a Disney Plus series. Regular Disney voice actors who participated in the video game (notably Jim Cummings, Bill Farmer, and Tony Anselmo) will likely reprise their roles. The project also claims that it will be CG animated.

While the sources in question are reliable, it is worth pointing out that the Kingdom Hearts project has never materialized before, including another TV series in 2015. Anyone who has played Kingdom Hearts will already be aware of the problem.

What started out as a casual Disney/Final Fantasy crossover has grown and expanded into a mire of incomprehensible titles about time travel, parallel dimensions, digital avatars, and people living inside each other's minds like Russian nesting dolls.

Still, it is not hard to understand Disney's eagerness to produce the "Kingdom Hearts" series. Disney's vast backlog of characters and settings can be combined at will with anything that looks interesting.

From "Anna and the Snow Queen" and "Tangled" to "Toy Story" and "Monsters, Inc.", "Aladdin" and "The Little Mermaid" to "Tron" and "Pirates of the Caribbean", "Kingdom Hearts" has something for everyone. If it can maintain its connection to "Final Fantasy" and draw in the "troubled teen" demographic, even better.

Indeed, according to Kaya's tweets, Disney initially wanted to produce the series in-house, but then handed the reigns over to Square Enix, which is using the Unreal Engine to produce the pilot. Square Enix's sense of storytelling is a bit odd, especially by Disney standards, and may produce something a bit more offbeat than the traditional Disney Plus.

In any case, "Kingdom Hearts" is one of those series that would almost certainly work as a television show, but it could also almost certainly fail. Beloved characters and clever concepts are usually at odds with complex internal mythologies. If Disney decides to air this show in full, we'll have to wait and see who wins.

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