MAJOR Update about the Kingdom Hearts 'Movie' at Disney 

I think it wouldve been better for kingdom hearts to be an anime instead

No matter how good it is, kingdom hearts being in theaters is insane.

I imagine the Disney worlds getting maybe five minutes each if it's a KH1 adaptation. There's not enough time even in a three hour movie to establish the characters, learn the lore and move the plot in a meaningful way that will do justice to Kingdom Hearts.

Chris pratt will be voicing sora

This is either going to be terrible or its going to be a "standalone story" who actually is extremely important for the lost master saga because nomura

I'm still skeptical about this. Unless it's confirmed by Disney or Nomura himself, I can't trust this source. But if it's legit and if they're really making a movie, I hope it's the Union cross or Dark Road movie because putting a two hour movie in KH1 would not work in my opinion.

I just don't understand how they'd do this right. Best case scenario in my mind is that it would be a standalone story that either ties into the broader KH storyline like the Fallout series, or a totally separate non-canon story that exists within its own timeline. I can't imagine doing an adaptation of any of the games well. The storyline of these games is so heavily geared toward the gameplay. I don't know if people are going to want to sit through a story that's 70% watered-down retelling of popular Disney movies they've already seen before. Plus, to be really frank, we've seen from previous attempts at "movies" (Back Cover) that the writing of this series doesn't exactly hold up great on its own without the accompanying gameplay.

If I were adapting KH for full length films, I would want the room for each of the longer games to be spread out into at least a trilogy each. That way you could get depth and investment into the characters. YES, that would make it a long film franchise, but we're already talking about a series with over a dozen games. I'd give each film a subtitle, without becoming as bad as "358/2 Days." Perhaps each of the Days films' subtitles would include the word Days, and such. Perhaps it would go: Destiny trilogy (KHI, reference to Destiny Islands) Memories trilogy (Chain of Memories) Twilight trilogy (2) Days trilogy Dream trilogy (Dream Drop Distance) Beyond trilogy (Beyond Sleep) Master trilogy (KH3)

It doesn't have to be an adaptation of the entire plot of an entire game. This could be a standalone story to advance the overall story. Also, I think we're missing the opportunity for this to be a movie about, say, Kairi. She's a princess of heart; it's not too great a stretch for her to be a Disney princess, too. Would it be a weird direction for Disney to take? Sure. But it wouldn't be the stupidest thing they've done.

It’s all been confirmed even a debunked pilot episode that a fan wanted to make with Disney and now we finally have the rights so I’m not surprised

I see a lot of people being disappointed about it possibly not being a 2D anime, but honestly ya'll underrestimate how good CGI can be utilized, Im pretty sure the show will look even better than KH3 and that already looks like an actual movies at times. I'd love to see the KH engine being used with a 100% focus on animation, I remember seeing the San fransokyo cutscene where Sora showed off to Hiro and his friends and all that went through my head was: "Holy shit KH would probably look good as a show" The choreography as well as fluidity of the animation within the cutscene were incredible, obviously those take time and can only be done rarely, or at least not as often as we'd like. A KH show on the other hand could embrace that potential, as it's not limited to being a game.

If this is true they need to ha e Nomura-San be involved in this project.

They SHOULD DO IT! Just like with Sonic, I want to see a Kingdom Hearts adaptation into the big screen. Have the animation be CGI like the certain cutscenes in the game, like the beginning and ending of the games.

am I the only one who desperately hopes this isn't real I think a kingdom hearts movie would be a absolute mess it works in a game because you have 20+ hours in each installment to really flush out the story but in a movie you got 2 hours to cram it all into it just wouldn't be good not to mention all the games and stuff if you're gonna do a movie have it be a side story thing or a union X adaption not the main story

Cloud’s from Final Fantasy… and none of us have seen ALADDIN yet.

This video has got me excited to see how this plays out. I was instantly put off when I heard the rumours, but you have given me faith, thank you

Does anyone like my idea of a spiritual successor to Kingdom Hearts that will be in crossover collaboration between DreamWorks Animation and Capcom elements that would succeed both Disney and Square Enix named, ‘Space Castle’ or ‘Space Kingdoms’?

Could they use Advent Children apparance for Cloud, his face and everything (except his Wolf Suit, until maybe KH2 Animation Movie)

Yeah... The thing about a KH movie, is that I think they're more likely to just make a movie within the KH universe and have it be part of the overall series as it currently exists. It's either that, or there's no way they're getting through the first game's story in one movie. I just don't see that happening, at least not if they want it to be good. Now that said, there is one way they could do it if they want the best of both worlds. Make the movie based on the first game, but tell the story from the perspective of the Princesses of Heart. Show what happened to their worlds that caused them to need to be rescued in the first place. That would be a great addition to the overall world. Have Kairi be the conduit through a vision or dream that enables the story to be told.

If they made it look like Back Cover or Deep Dive, that would be amazing!!! Imagine Deep Dive as a full movie! 😍

If they are to do a movie “series” then it should be 1,2 and 3 as the movies but in between have the other games be half movies or series on Disney + But hopefully it’s just a KH1 movie which will bring more people to the games and make Disney acknowledge KH way more (they could even do an original story written by Square just to make it more authentic)

If Final Fantasy isn’t in it, I don’t want it.

I'm okay with it having trilogies or something to get the story out there and well, but that's assuming they go to each world. The hard question is how would they do it without making it stale or boring or too short. Each world is its own movie so how would you give each world its respect and have them go between each one without rushing it is my only worry. As a TV show I think it'd be great, but as a movie I can't imagine how it would go.

KH1 could be a movie. It could be a really good movie. But they really shouldn't change much. Maybe shorten some of the worlds but nail all the major moments and it could be an insanely good movie. I want to see Jack skeleington, hercules, aladin, twilight town, malificent.

Kingdom Hearts X Front Cover would be cool.

I think it'd be really cool if they did multiple movies and bring the disney circle of villains through the whole thing while planting seeds of Organization XIII from the beginning. And it'd be even cooler if they expand Destiny Islands from the start.

Also I think a movie isn’t enough time, they should do an anime. That way the story does t need to be crammed into 2 hrs.

Oh my gosh . . . ITS HAPPENING!!!!! YES! I've been waiting forever for this, it better be worth the wait! :D

If the producers of the games aren't involved in any way, especially when it comes to the plot and its characters, it's not going to end up looking pretty...

Honestly, that's what I thought the Disney live action movies were heading to. Like, a post credit scene with Destiny Island at the end of one of those movies would be huge tho

btw how did you get the clips you playing

I think for sure square will be involved in it or at the very least Norma will be involved they don’t do anything with Sora without him

I'm fine with a movie say vs a TV/Online show adaptation. Seeing how the cycles of concepts like UX and Dark Road. (Adored the stories, but god the way it panned out so sporadically.) I feel like just making a solid hit as a movie would be more than enough would be a whole lot better. In my eyes, it promises some more selected focus to get the project knocked out in a start to finish timeframe.

I think it won’t be a Rehash but a continuation of the current story.

Honestly I really hope they make a movie for 358/2 days. The only problem is that it’s so beautifully sad!

I just hope Disney doesn't ruin it like they've done so often lately...

If it's just retelling of kh1 or any of the games, I don't think it's gonna work. That said, Kingdom Hearts is a franchise that has lived on breaking into new mediums. So it'll be interesting if the next part of the overall story is told in a movie format.

If this happens this will be big

Long live animation. It will be interesting for KH.

I seriously wonder how this is gonna play out, seeing as voice direction isn't exactly Kingdom Hearts' strong suit

I would love a kingdom hearts anime series like Star Wars visions it’s just so cool and so is Pokemon evolutions so it would be really cool to add a kingdom hearts anime to Disney +

Just make it a Disney plus show🙏🏾😭

I think if they'd do a movie, it won't involve going to any Disney worlds. It will just involve Sora helping Disney characters that lost their worlds to darkness in Traverse Town. And then Sora would go to Hollow Bastion to stop Maleficent and Riku/Ansem. Not thrilled about the thought of cutting so much, but I don't see how else it can be done without needing to be over 3 hours or split into multiple movies.

Kingdom Hearts needs TV series now. There should be more books or T.V shows that could cover untold stories other than side games. Union X could work as a TV show that also adds other things the mobile game never added. How about a show about Terra, Aqua and Ventus? At the end of Kingdom Hearts III we see all three of them head off onto their own adventure. What about a show about their next adventure over another side game?

I’d prefer an animated movie

I’m just really skeptical with these kinds of adaptations. I just don’t think it would translate well on to the big screen. Final fantasy 7-10 have some of the best written fantasy stories ever told but I couldn’t never see them adapted well into a movie or show.

I feel like this wouldn’t really work unless they did like 8 One Hour-ish long episodes for each world and boss fights?.. either way I hope they do kingdom hearts some justice

itd be pretty tuff if they just animated it like the hyper realistic ps2 cutscenes at the beginning and end of the games

I think Kingdom Hearts would have been better as an anime too because there's more time to establish the characters and cover the worlds better and also Square Enix has a lot of Kingdom Hearts properties for their worlds as well such as Twilight Town, The World That Never was and The Dark World. Nice video too. You did a good job with it.

I love Kingdom Hearts and I'm excited for this ❤🎉

I would love to get a movie or a anime for kh

If they give us more informative and it turns out Nomura isnt apart of it then thats a big sign that current fans will not enjoy this. Dont get to excited and keep your expectations lows. Disney has failed time and time again and KH will be the next thing they fumble, then they will blame the brand and its fans and the failure of the movie or show will cause Disney to take it out on the game.

I hope it's going to be any good, because I'm not playing the games for the story.

I remembered once upon a time, some channel on tv was advertising a movie for Onimusha Dawn of Dreams. I was so excited till I actually watched the thing. Game cutscenes. All the way. With shitloads of ads after each one.

watch it be a live action remake

a movie would work if its going to do something like bridge the gap between 3 & 4.

With how great Kingdom Hearts 1 was, if they can make a movie remake of that but keep the mysterious feel of it then this movie could be an absolute banger!

Cloud isnt an anime character

You know I grew up with kingdom hearts and I flipped 🙃 when I got kh3 and and again there are a lot of games but my favorites is 1 to 3 and can't wait for 4 and honestly I feel like they deserve more than one movie if they are and if it doesn't go by the game I'm going to be mad and replaying all of it to refresh my mind from it if it's not what I am expecting cuz the game it's self is like a movie and I'll admit I cried so much through it it's much of a masterpiece to not mess with it

i...think i just play the Game I hope that Movie Sora works like Data Sora and is just another Version and Game Sora is still the Original That would be the only saving grace but i still hope its another Story and not just a compilation Man i just feel so uneasy about this whole thing...

How it comes true

My little boi bits are trembling at the mention of a KH movie…I want it soo bad.

I think they should’ve did a show instead so they can definitely be more true to the story

They'd have a lot of work to do to make it work considering the plots of the games themselves are convoluted, messy, and full of retcons as it is.

Im excited for Kingdom Hearts 'Movie

It’d be better as a series on Disney plus. If it gets popular and big enough they could make movies after the series. Also hope it’s animated/CGI not live action.

I prefer that they make a series than a film... Because given the complexity of the story overall, if let's say who adapts it for the cinema, people will understand nothing. whereas a series allows you to spread the story over its entire length but little by little. and of course a CGI series obviously. rather than live action🫡

Hm, interesting? So this will really happen? If so, i hope it doesn’t disappoint.

So we know it is gonna be animated, but will it be 3D or (more preferably) 2D?

To be honest I prefer if they just stick to the Manga and Games instead of making it into a movie.

I would rather it be an animated series. Disney Plus needs it.

I would prefer a stand alone story. I feel like they could mess up so kuch adapting the games 1 to 1. Why not use that chance to give us a movie about Mobile Games lol I sure would be interestes about that + more insight of the Past Masters

A lot of people saying an anime. I’m gonna hop on that band wagon and add on that if done right I would actually go back to paying for Disney plus. Or maybe both. A big movie to kick it off and then a show to flesh everything out. Like Starwars the clone wars.

a TV series would have been a better way to go.

I think kingdom hearts would've worked better as an anime series and the games set between chain of memories, reverse rebirth and days 358/2 would be movies

Series would be better....movie sounds like a dumpster fire waiting to be set a blaze.....

Does this mean we will FINALLY see it at the parks? lol

u cant just make one movie, it should be more like a cinematic universe XD with movies, tv shows and stuff :D

They better not change any of the characters or anything lol

Kingdom Hearts is better off 100% animated with various artistic styles of combining the east and west centering around characters from JRPG’s and American Cartoon Cinema based around the whimsical musical adaptations of beloved fairytales.

I hope it’s a original story because if you try to adapt one of the games into a movie. You would get a movie that’s just short retellings of different movies. Which sounds plainly awful

People saying this should not happen need to realize that whether it's good or bad, it will make someone in the fandom happy and might become their favorite piece of media from the franchise. If they did not try new things, we wouldn't have gotten games like bbs, 358/2, re:chain, re:coded and others that are loved by so many people in the fandom

Can’t they just do CGI like is it that so hard?

It's sounds….cool? But I think kingdom hearts would be cool as an anime series because there has been manga made about the KH video games. Why not use the style of the manga or maybe the style of big hero 6 tv series art style to tell the story. Idk tags my two cents in this. I just hope the creators do this franchise justice. Hopefully

I hope this is real, and not another big fat lie like the lie about us getting Johto and Unova remakes.

2:25 I liked the movie, its was not perfect but still it is not the worst movie ever made. That would be Megamind Vs Doom Syndicate.

They shoulda just made it an anime. It would slap

i used to want a KH movie. but the way that Disney has changed, i don't want it. they'll just ruin it.

I don’t think a movie would work. Kingdom Hearts works better with long form story telling. Sora interacting with each of the various worlds for a considerable amount of time builds up his friendship with the characters, and you have to factor in the original plot of the series itself Trying to fit all that into a 2 hour or so movie wouldn’t be enough. You’d end up with something like Ready Player 1 or Wreck it Ralph 2 where you see all the cameos but the main characters have extremely limited interactions with all of them. Even something like Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, the closet comparison and currently the longest American animated movie, had Miles visit only 3 universes along with his own in the beginning portion for total of 4. KH1 by itself features 14 worlds. Miles had meaningful interactions with about a 6-10 other Spiderpeople in the movie while all the others were there for a short while Sora had a lot more😂

Bruh just give us Missing Link, Kingdom Hearts 4 and Verum Rex ! What’s the hold up Nomura !?

i hate p much ever video game adaptation media, please give it a rest hollywood

Maybe it would be easier if they removed the Disney worlds and tell the original story without them. EDIT: Although, that may not be the case since the first game involves Disney Princesses getting kidnapped as some people pointed out already.

so i grew up playing final fantasy and kh i think this is a great idea but im afraid for it this could go 1 of 2 ways. way 1: this could add new lure to story this could end up a great movie. way 2 make it somewhat lure free but sticking to lure no good game plays like missions in kh3 i feel they will forget some things i feel we have too many alternate endings so this could go completely sour but i watched final fantasy movies and i got hope.. but i think little bits and nugets from gameplay not videos or but pure traveling trying to get somewhere i mean last of us tv show wasnt all that good and this can possobly end it because they ruin the story somehow we getting kh1 2 x anyone know i say if you did movies like games this might be a large profit and good move but 1 movie could possibly ruine future titles unreleased

Should def be a show its way to much source material to shove into a movie

on everything on my life and everything in this existance THEY>BETTER>NOT>MESS>THIS>UP!

Ok so we know it’s a movie still a rumour tho saying wut this is going b and movie is wut is still something and it’s a start so kinda comfirmed in a way

Whatever it is I will watch it even if it is a movie.

They definitely should have A Nightmare Before Christmas world at the beginning for sure. Think of how excited people who know nothing about KH would be to see that classic make a return in some way.

Oh no please...I don't trust Disney after Wish, don't mess with my favorite series

Ok so if this turns to be true Disney better not screw this up with bad animation and writing like it happened with wish that was supposed to be Disney's 50th anniversary tribute that end up being such a flop because they just decided to go with such a mediocre storyline instead of going with what was originally though