Kingdom Hearts Adaptation Reportedly In The Works At Disney
A reliable movie and TV insider has claimed that an adaptation of Kingdom Hearts is currently in the works at Disney, although it's unclear which it is.
As we've talked about plenty over the past few months, it's been an incredibly dry season for Kingdom Hearts news, with the only exciting thing to talk about being the announcement (and delay) of a second closed beta test for Missing Link. Although it looks like we're going to be kept waiting to hear about Kingdom Hearts 4, there is at least some activity in the series.
That activity is probably going to come as a surprise to many, though. According to reliable movie and TV insider DanielRPK, Disney is currently working on some kind of adaptation of Kingdom Hearts, although it's currently unclear whether it's going to be a series for Disney Plus or an outright movie of some kind.
Yesterday, DanielRPK (who recently suggested that a sequel to Sonic Frontiers was in development, something that was then backed up by another insider) shared a post on their Patreon that reported that an adaptation of Kingdom Hearts is currently being worked on by Disney. They aren't sure if it's a series or a movie, but it does seem like something is being worked on.
Interestingly enough, this isn't actually the first time that we've heard about Disney making some kind of TV series or movie adaptation of Kingdom Hearts. All the way back in 2020, Vulcan Reporter's Emre Kaya suggested that a Kingdom Hearts series for Disney Plus was being developed and that Square Enix was asked to make a pilot using Unreal Engine.
The series was said to be CG animated and casting at the time of the rumour, so it's not clear if the direction was changed at some point or if this current rumour is about something else altogether. I'd place a bet on it being a CG animated adaptation, but one that has been tweaked and worked on in the four years since the rumour was first reported.
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