Disney WISH’s Lost Potential! (Star Boy, Evil queen, Asha redraw) 

Disney didn’t want star boy to be the same as genie just because they both grant wishes, yet they give their animated female characters the same personality in every movie? Riddle me that Disney 😭

I will NEVER not be upset that they DIDNT go with the concept art. Like- BRO. Shapeshifting star boy who’s Asha’s love interest, the VILLAIN couple. And so much more😭😭😭😭 like- bro

Starboy is already successful as CONCEPTUAL ART, imagine if they had actually followed through with this idea. He would be Disney's "Jack Frost" in terms of fandom, I can see it.

Lol, if Star Boy is Genie because he grants wishes, then Mother Gothell is Frollo because they both locked a kid in a tower. What inconsistent logic.

In fact, my so-called canon name for Starboy is Earendel because it means "morning star" or "dawn" and also most distant star of all cosmos as dawn symbolizes notions of hope and illumination which almost matched with Asha means "hope".

funny how the 100 year movie is supposed to be an honor to work on and shrek was a punishment to work on yet shrek breathes more life than wish.

For the “king and queen want to bring back their child” idea, maybe bringing people back from the dead requires a lot of energy in the form of wishes? And then the two would grant a couple of less-fantastical wishes once every few months as they wouldn’t contain as much “wish energy” or whatever. I saw another comment talking about how Asha’s flaw could’ve been that she cares about others to the point of self-sacrifice, which would be a really interesting character arc! Having the contrast of a hero giving everything so fulfil the wishes of everyone except for herself versus villains who want to take others’ wishes for a selfish act would be pretty cool. Also having Asha, a character who doesn’t care about her own wishes, with star-boy who’s only wish us for her to take better care of herself would be a little cliche but still nice. Disney’s 100th anniversary piece should have a lot of cliches ngl it’s their whole thing

"Star is too much like genie" Me who just heard this Dude my dude this movie is FULL of References like too much from what I've heard

They missed such a golden opportunity to get inspiration from Shakespeare's Macbeth. The king could have been benevolent at first, but the queen could have manipulated him slowly, playing on his temper, convincing him he has to hunt Asha and the boy, using dark magic from the book. He could have been reluctant at first, but slowly giving in to greed, pride and vengeance. By using the book more and more the royal couple could have release a dangerous sorcerer who turns them into puppets and starts a reign of terror- causing the same destruction that ruined Magnitico's home. In the end, Asha and the boy coild have saved Magnifico, leaving Amaya to be consumed by the book as they both vanish... Just an idea.

I wish that disney makes a new version of "wish" with the originals ideas. Let's do what Snyder fans do and make a move for Disney to release another version of wish with the original ideas.

i'm seriously considering writing a fic on ao3 with a plot similar to this. the king and queen will have a morticia and gomez dynamic, exepct that they're yk evil, and asha will be their daughter who's been sheltered her entire life and doesn't know about the people's suffering. since she didn't really have any flaws in the movie i was thinking she could have trouble with accepting that her parents are evil and be very defensive when it comes to them. she'll encounter star boy when she's away from the kingdom and they will help her realize what's really going on while also falling in love with each other in the process. i was thinking that the magic the king and queen use for the whole wish thing could be powered by the people's faith in them and when that starts failling, they'll capture star boy and try to use their magic for it instead. this would make asha finally accept that they're evil and then she'll go save star boy and the kingdom, this idea isn't fully developed yet so there will probably be a few changes to the plot here and there.

I would have liked to see the queen character (Amaya, was it?) if she played the Lady Macbeth role, encouraging/pushing her husband into villainous acts with either love and support or manipulation and insults to his ego.

I like that almost 60-70% of the WISH 'fandom', reject the movie and sees the concept art as the true canon

I have some ideas: The first change is with Asha who is now the Princess of Rosas and daughter of King Magnifico and Queen Amaya who is turning 18 at the beginning and will be performing her first Wish Ceremony in place of her father. In this version, she’s still very kind and good, but she’s also very shy and introverted with an elegant air but not a lot of self-confidence since all her life, her parents have told her that as the princess she must be a good girl and do as she’s told. She still has magic though and still wants to use it for the good of Rosas but after learning the dark truth, she has to realize that doing what’s right sometimes means standing up those you love. Magnifico and Amaya are similar in their evilness, but they do genuinely love each other and Asha. Their motivations are mainly rooted in paranoia of losing their newfound power and their perfect kingdom falling apart like their home did a century ago. Back then they were good and generous people and Magnifico in particular loved granting wishes to anyone who asked until one day he granted the seemingly simply of wish of an evil person, who used his powers to steal and rob the people of their village. They were forced to flee but made a wish for a new home which would become Rosas. Despite this they fear losing their home and power which comes in the form of Starboy. Starboy in this is named Earendel and he is a very young wishing star who is still learning to control his wishing magic. He is mischievous and kind of childishly cruel at times, who in the beginning looks down on humans and grants wishes just because he can without rhyme or reason. However as the film goes on, he begins to genuinely care about the humans of Rosas and slowly falls in love with Asha and her with him. In the end, he sacrifices his own life to save Rosas but is resurrected by a kiss from Asha.

In my headcanon, Star Boy can shapeshift into various types of animals and things including the cute ball of Star so that Disney can do merchandise on both the ball of Star and StarBoy. Asha's "care too much" can be expanded on as a "People Pleaser" in which she cares others so much that she neglects her own feelings and needs hence the wishes. As for the King and Queen, both are traumatized from past experiences that now affects on who they are now, but both have room to be good again. Also, they are both Asha's parents. There's so many possibilities.

In my version of wish, asha is the daughter of the king and the queen. So like… a literal princess. And so something I think could be a good character arc for her is that when she’s on the run from her parents and stuff, she isn’t used to not getting what she wants when she wants it. Ya know, all the spoiled child things every princess has. So asha has to realize that she’s not perfect and neither are her parents. Stuff like that. It’s not a fully formed idea.

You missed the platypus. Edit: For Asha’s flaw of “I care too much” we should see what that means. Does she care too much for other people and not putting her own desires first? That’s one direction you could have gone.

9:52 what if they think by having so many wishes they’ll be able to summon a star or get enough power (given wishes are power in Disney) to bring their child back? Given like genie says “you can’t wish the death alive” but they could will it with the “will” of everyone at their disposal. But each dream didn’t seem that genuine or strong enough. And that’s where Asha comes in. Her unwavering will despite her being fear and unfocused is what they need. A will and determination strong enough to fight and the care to even give your life to the ones you love (Easter egg to Hercules movie) is what they would need to fight the rule of death. It would’ve been dark yet fun.

For Star it would be a great story to see him as a very hopeful, optimistic positive person because he doesn't know reality. And seeing him learn about it (then denial, followed by sadness) and then learning that, despite the hardships, it is important to never lose hope, would make a typical Disney message + is an interesting story.

Omgosh! Starboy looks amazing!! The cape looks so good. Asha's dress looks so pretty! All the designs look amazing though💚💚

Maybe the reason that they’re evil is because they want wishes all to themselves and they don’t want to share and maybe Starboy wants to help her because Starboy got too close to the truth, and the king turned him into a star

The "biggest flaw is that you care too much" was a joke about what people say when they're asked about flaws. Unfortunately they didn't actually show us her flaws so it just doesn't go over well

Great designs Jyuna!!! Star-Boy is favourite, I think that a good name for him would Astero (which means star in Greek) Keep up the Awesome Drawing 🙂

The thing I don't understand...if they wanted this to be a "tribute" movie, then having similarities LIKE SHAPESHIFTING could've been a WONDERFUL tribute. He could've shapeshifted into anything that Maui or Genie had as just a nod to their movies. I'm just so flabbergasted at the choices they made for this movie.

03:21 - 03:32 This is *extremely* ironic to me because the 1st thing I thought when I saw King Magnifico was that he was like a genie who was sick and tired to keep granting wishes non-stop without ever getting a thank you.

I imagine if the King and Queen were both villains, they would be like Jessie and James from Pokemon-- they're the bad guys, but you still love it when they're on screen. Just give them a talking-animal sidekick and we've got the Team Rocket of Disney! Also, Star Boy could have been the next Disney Prince and I will forever be disappointed that he was scrapped. 😔

The designs look so good!! Also, i love your voice, it's so relaxing😁

You art is so pretty! I just followed you on Instagram and Twitter/X. I wish they could use the consept art in a sequel. For example: "The Star returns because it misses Asha and this time take the form of a human boy. Asha introduse him for the queen and it makes the queen wants to visit her husband the king in the dungeoun in secret. She misses him and then choose to use the magic evil book to free him from the staff and that's how they become the evil couple while Asha and Star have to defeat them."

I WISH we had this. I ironically like Wish, but the concepts are just SOOOO much better especially seeing everyone write about them.

3:52 better phrased “some writer said they will be shipped and is not as shocking meme worthy if she has a potential love interest cause god forbid we have different gender main protagonists not be in a relationship” I think this movie was very f up by Disney wanting to pander to the Disney fans and not to an audience. Wanting to please the hardcore fans and not something that would be even analyzed by artists and writers for longer. Who cares if the ending and beginning is the same as many? We go to see a feel good happy story about a pretty lady having an important moment. Who cares if is “generic”? Life is generic. All they had to do is make something fun. That’s it. No one cares if is not some super writing masterpiece. Heck Disney og stories were generic but the art helped set them apart by the clever animation and art. Is why many study the books made by Disney animators. I feel sad for the designers. They were robbed

I’m 30, and growing up I remember hearing incessant backlash at Disney for their romances, and I remember thinking it was annoying at the time. And here we are now, Disney is stripping all their lead characters of a central romance plot, and I just hope those people are happy.

I believe you got the shrek analogy from @NoTheRobot I saw their short too, using shrek was a great example of a better written character flaw and story arc. Shrek was trying to get what he wanted to find out what he actually needed. He wanted to be left alone in his swamp but what he needed was love and acceptance. Meanwhile Asha states what she wanted and gets what she wants, no character changes, no flaws, nothing that really makes her rememberable and interesting.

Apparently Star Boy was meant to be mute, which is an interesting and concept and good for diversity. I'm very convinced though from listening to the demo version of "At All Costs" that it was originally meant as a Disney love song for Asha and Star. It could have worked as an internal love duet, e.g. *Can You Feel the Love Tonight* from *The Lion King*, *Something There* from *Beauty and the Beast* and the first half of *I See The Light* from *Tangled*. That or they could have worked out some way Star singing with Asha without needing to talk (unless he *does* learn to speak at the end somehow much like Tack in some versions of *The Thief and the Cobbler*), e.g. he communicates with Asha telepathically or he uses his magic to find some way to sing to her. Either way, I definitely believe *At All Costs* would have been *so* much better as a Disney Love song. Who do you imagine playing the singing voice of Star?

wHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT HOW THE CONCEPT ART FOR THE EVIL COUPLE HAS A CAT IN IT?? evil couple with an EVIL PET that could brawl the GOAT. how BOMB would that be???

Magnifico and Amaya would have been the FIRST evil power couple. They are both in love with each other and loyal to one another. They use the magic they acquire from hording the wishes to fuel their own power, sharing it with each other. They were also to be the evil couple contrast to the good couple of Asha and Star.

The concept art looked so good like Star had a human form and was Asha’s love interest and both Magnifico and Amaya were evil. This is my personal rewrite Asha would be Magnifico and Amaya’s actual daughter and so she grew up thinking that keeping the wishes was the right thing. I would also make her personality more similar to Elsa and Mulan rather than Rapunzel and Anna. She’s smart and serious but also stubborn. (Little nitpick but I would also change her design to look more like her concept art. She would have her natural hair out and her color palette more orange and red. When I think purple I think Rapunzel and Isabella.) Magnifico I would go the sympathetic route since it honestly works better for him. I would make that due to a traumatic experience he’s now a very paranoid man who truly just wants to keep everyone safe and he picks wishes that he deems best for everyone. Amaya would also be traumatized but instead of focusing on wishes she focuses on appearance. Like she wants her family to look good to the kingdom so that they don’t question them and believe that they’re all safe. The seven friends could be people who work around the castle and Asha then helps them throughout the story. I also like the betrayal but I like to imagine that Simon has a crush on Asha so he wants to be the greatest knight in order to hopefully impress her.

I love the idea of Asha being the adopted daughter of the king and queen and having to fight back against her evil parents, which I've seen in several other videos. Still loved this video!

If I had to rewrite the motivations for Magnifico and Amaya, my proposal would be this: They're not the original ruling couple of the kingdom, they usurped the original ruling family (Asha's family) and the wishes they store actually contain all the memories of those who would have been able to remember it. That and/or the wishes are what they draw their power from. When Asha applies to be the apprentice of them, they begin to suspect that she's the lost daughter of the former king and queen and they take her on as apprentice to monitor her thinking she could still be useful. When Star enters the picture, they worry he will restore the memories of the people and thus reveal that they aren't who they say they are. Thus Asha and Star begin their quest to return the wishes and memories of the people and in the process have it revealed to Asha that she's actually a princess. Not my best proposal but I wanted to try to keep consistency with the use of wishes in this movie.

star boy is perfect to play prince cornelius in Thumbelina CGI animation remake for the 30th anniversary

Could It be possible if Disney remakes the movie with Starboy and a power-hungry King and Queen originally if the outcry for it is large enough and or a petition is made ? (Even though somehow it's a box office success and one of the highest grossing movies of 2023)

the Miraculous reference made me so happy lol. my PP clearly shows i’m a fan; though, honestly, i can’t believe that Gabe x Nathalie is the closest thing we have to an evil couple. like, Gabe’s so unwilling to let go of his wife that he isn’t letting himself have a relationship with Nathalie, though they are (or were) so obviously in love. too late now, i suppose. 😒

I think a major reason why Disney decided to go with the star-ball rather than a human character is because it is significantly cheaper and easier to animate a moving ball rather than a human. Disney has been struggling financially lately and is a pretty cheap company overall in recent years.

I dunno, I like the idea of Asha discovering she was the villain all along. Like, Magnifico had good reasons for not granting any wish and the people were offered their wishes back, but refused them if they couldn't get them granted because it was easier than failure or accepting their loss. So, she thwarts Magnifico and his wife and begins granting wishes, only to discover that vague and poorly thought wishes cause chaos, and many wishes are self-serving or contradictory. In the end, she has to realize humility and patience, and that maybe she didn't 'care too much', that that description was self-serving. Maybe Magifico and his wife had once wished for a perfect daughter (Asha), and found out too late the ramifications of wishing a life into existence on Earth. Star could be her brother is Disney didn't want a love interest, maybe he can't tell her until she discovers it herself because of the wish.

Instead of having Amaya teaming with Magnifico,I would’ve preferred a backstabber Amaya,like she teams with Asha so that when she’s queen she’d be evil herself so that she can be the girl boss she is,and maybe if they wanted a good ending that could make opportunity for a sequel and the whole movie would be 10x better

9:49 the first thing that came to my head was that he became the king by using his sorcery or deceit to get to the top and become king maybe act loyal to the old late king and then u know a scene when he’s alone with the king before he died evil laughing knowing he’ll be the next king with his evil queen. Then when he is king he wants even more power that kinda concept where it will never be enough and so he asks people to give their wishes to him and the whole concept that these wishes come from the heart so it’s kind of their magic given to him and instead of granting any of those wishes he and the evil queen uses them to make their own magic and powers stronger. Asha would probably find this injustice of the king stealing the people own power through maybe a crack in the door and this part a bit much but she could be like the daughter of the late king and didn’t take over the kingdom because she is too young or wasn’t in the will. When she finds this out she does what her dad says to do when all is lost/hopeless and wishes on a star. In this version her character is more goal oriented maybe she works to hard and even though they are the rulers they make asha do the work around the kingdom and star is the one to help her and has his own goals at the end that yes he likes granting wishes but he wants to stay on earth forever I’m not really sure 🤷‍♀️

HELPPP you naming Gabriel and Natalie as the only Disney villain couple you could think of had me rolling on the floor 😂 and I agree, Star Boy should have been there. Petition to have Disney remake Wish and BRING BACK STAR BOI

Now that I thinked about, they could use this concept to make a Little Prince adaptation, Disney is known for making Fairy Tales adaptation

Thank you for bringing up Mayura and Hawkmoth! That show had a golden opportunity to tango with that arch and bring in some real depth when it came to their relationship and teamwork and they preferred to go down the "mad with power/deus ex kill me to keep my son from knowing what a bad dad I am" route instead of actually doing anything. It feels like a lot of movies and shows have great concepts but are either afraid to explore it or have no idea how to execute it.... I would love more villain couples!

First comment? Love your drawing of Starboy 😍

I thought of making a headcanon about how Magnifico got the power to grant wishes,I made a headcanon where Magnifico got this ability because he learned it from Starboy's parents and Starboy's parents were the king and queen of the Star Kingdom.When Magnifico has mastered his abilities, Magnifico destroys the Star Kingdom and kills the Starboy parents and then erases traces of history regarding the Star Kingdom

You're drawings are adorable! I love the way you drew Starboy And I actually like your takes! I think maybe with magnífico and his wife what could've happened is a genie situation where he grants wishes but can't bring people back from the dead so they get jealous and envious over time being able to grant others wishes while they can't wish their child back and so they start withdrawing from granting people's wishes and decide to end up holding back and not granting anyone's wishes entirely And since people would have been used to getting what they want getting their wishes granted all the time the kingdom got dependant on magnifico which would also double pressure on him along side his duties as a wish granter With the kingdoms dependence they'd end up boring of life and whatnot fearing risks fearing failure fearing that they won't succeed in the things they want cause they depend on magnificos wishes After the whole thing with magnífico that asha sees that they refuse to give people's wishes due to their built up twisted-ness after she's thrown out she feels bad helpless she knows what they're doing and is afraid of what to do maybe after she has like a pretty song about how wishes are a desire that we have the power of making come true and maybe she has a moment where she wishes upon a star for the wishes to be free so people can have a chance of making them come true Then Starboy appears from that wish I do like the concept of Starboy being mute makes for an interesting dynamic and we don't see mute characters much I know a good example of mute characters is sandman from rise of the guardians I think Starboy transforming or using stardust imagery would be cool for him to communicate but someone did point out the song with asha and magnifico together singing about wishes did have a duet/romantic vibe and was speculated as being starboy and ashas song I personally love either way Starboy being mute or speaking cause you can also have musical moments with him and have him express vocally some interesting things I definitely recommend you watching the deleted scenes they're really good But anyways Starboy and asha fight to free the wishes seeing asha stand up for it being inspired being risky going for it inspires the townfolk cause lemme tell ya seeing someone fight for their dreams for their desires is absolutely inspiring and beautiful And I think that for asha becoming the next queen after they free the wishes asha will inspire people to chase their wishes on their own she will encourage people that a wish no matter how big or small can be accomplished by oneself and desire to make it reality and it'd be sad but I think starboy should be sent back as a star now that ashas wish was granted a bit of a starcrossed love story and she'll always be reminded of him and what she fought for everytime she looks up into the sky at that star I am no writer nor do I make movies or anything like that! Just some ideas inspired by your concepts jyuna xD

I love that you brought up Shrek's character arc because yes, he has a way better character arc than Asha. Funny how Dreamworks can write better protagonists twenty years ago (and even today with Puss in Boots the Last Wish) than freaking DISNEY. Also your art is so pretty! Asha and the Queen look beautiful and Star Boy looks so cute!!

I would have crushed so hard in Star Boy and I'm Aromantic so that's saying a lot

I have this idea that I believe could have worked in the film & that would be to incorporate this lesser known story about a prince who wanted to know fear. Star boy could be this character who doesn't know fear and wants to find it because it's something he's very curious about. Asha's character flaw and her start of the story could be that she's absolutely terrified of everything. She could make a wish about overcoming her fears, thus getting connected to Star Boy this way. Then, the rest of the film is about Star helping Asha overcome her fears while he's trying to understand and find what frightens him by seeing what frightens Asha. Star is otherworldly, so he should also have these superhuman abilities besides shape shifting, and perhaps that's part of why he doesn't understand fear. He's seemingly too powerful to see anything as a threat. The king & queen could be motivated to absorb Star's powers for their own use. So they want to capture him or are draining him of power by some means; Star could have maybe believed it was impossible for him to be drained of his magic, so he's reckless with using it and doesn't care the king & queen are siphoning his magic. He's also using hid powers to grant others of their wishes in reckless abandon, not understanding the consequences of his actions. Then, when the evil couple strikes to capture or kill Star, he realizes he was wrong and has gotten weaker (both magically + physically). The castle could be in ruins during the big conflict, maybe people are trapped in rubble and Star struggles to help (I'm thinking of the scene where Hercules is trying to lift the colonnade off Meg, or when he frees the two boys trapped under the hydras' cave). The king or queen tries to finish off Star boy, but Asha puts herself in the way and is presumably killed/dying. This brave act of love also strikes fear in Star (he's watching her die & he's scared to lose her), but it also motivates him more in the conflict. After defeat of the evil couple, Star could return to Asha and hold her tight as he cries over her death, but then Asha could whisper, "I scared you, didn't I?" Turning the grief and mourning into joy. Things are given balance, and Star has a new outlook on his wish granting responsibilities. The kingdom is restored, and a new ruler is set in place (either Asha or someone else). At the end of the story, Star is given the choice to go home or stay on earth (again, similarities to Hercules) & he makes his decision. And we get a happy ending from there.

The most I got from the star concept was that one song that was like STARBOYYYYYYY

In my version, the couple worked together to give wishes to their perfect kingdom and in the process take the future dreams of others out of their kingdom and from their ally kingdoms (magical contract or something). Aisha sees something wrong and starboard comes out happy but then explains his powers are running out due to their evil ways depleting his magic. Then they get friends and help each other out, climax was to make the couple look like they win then starboy gets his wish come true since for some rule (he cant just make it himself). He gives up his power and The couple can’t use his powers anymore so then their banished and aisha rules the kingdom with Starboy.

I honestly think that Magnifico would be the redemable villain that would team up with Asha and Star Boy to take down the evil Queen. In my version either Star Boy (when he was a kid, he grants a wish that harms maginifco's village that was ransacked by theives) or the Queen was plotting to take down Rosas from the inside, manipulating Magnifico to turn "evil" since she was once apart of the theives that ransacked his villaged and possibly killed everyone, except for magnifico. idk I love ur art and the story you created!! Im now trying to rewrite it too and having a difficulty with the "wishes" part because of how BAD it was in the film lol. Anyway, what I got so far, Asha is the kings apprentice since she is the daughter of the king and wants to learn how to do magic to benifit the people of Rosas and on the plus side, it would help her become the next wish granter/leader of rosas. But she is not very good at it magic or at leading a group of people. She doesn't understand how leading works and becomes less and less confident because of it. I do want in a montoge of Asha helping around Rosas to show more of her personality where she is quiet and reserved but more than read to help her people and showing her care. It would also show her desire to become more confident in herself and longing for someone to understand her since not a lot of people besides Magifico understands the stress of becoming something like him. Later in the Film, Magnifico and or the Queen then shows her what she would do when she becomes the next wish granter (I think it would be like at 30 minutes into the film so we have time to flesh out our characters more in a spam of months than a few hours. And would establish a close relatinship she has with her father than her mother. PLUS, I think there would be a spell that would seem like everyone is happy, but in reality they are miserible without their wishes). They show her that they grant wishes that aren't good for the people of Rosas. Like murder and the ect. But they do it because the ones that are deemed safe or good actually give them more power in magic than the ones that aren't safe. Asha, horrified by this revelation tries to talk down Magnifico, but the Queen interviens saying to Magnifico that he is more experience than some lowly magician. What does she know what is good for the kingdom than them? So the king tells her to get out of the tower. (I dont think he bans her from the kingdom, I feel like he needed to be alone to do some thinking) Asha wonders around the kingdom, seeing through the seemingly "happy place" but knowing the truth, she is able to see though the spell the king casted on his people and seeing them so miserable just makes Asha upset. Asha runs off into the forest, but wonders a bit too far. When she comes to an opening she wishes on a star to "give her and her people a chance to persue their desires". Its more direct and more understandable than "to want something more than this". Star Boy is the opposite of Asha. He is more confident, extroverted, and overall could be a leader. It is something Asha wants to be. Star Boy is basically the spark in Asha to take down the king and queen. I think there would be a really cute moment where Star Boy is shocked of the world Asha lives in which in turn slowly has Star Boy getting a desire to be with Asha since she would technecally be the first person he has ever been friends with. So in this sweet senerio, they are the both the sparks in each other. Which would also would have them fall in love B) Im not sure what the middle part would be, but I dont want the King to IMMEDIETLY hunt down Star. Yes, he is a threat to magnifico, but I feel like he would first want to know their intentions rather than mindlessly attacking without reason. *I'm looking at you Wish. I GOT MY EYE. ON. YOU.* And I do want a part where they find or see Magnifico's home. Which would be a reason for both to talk down the king and try to convince him to give back the wishes. I also want Star Boy to be able to see people's desires, which would give Magnifico a much needed redemtion arc. The fight would be kinda the same since I did kinda like that part. But the part where the king is in the mirror is just tragic. So that is not there anymore. Still in the works tbh. And sorry it is long, I had made a 30 minute rant on the trailer, and I do wanna fix it because I realized some things after watching the movie, but I wont since I wanna watch it as many times to make me go insane heheh

Go with this. As we know a set of rules for some wish makers is no bringing the dead back to life, no forcing love and no more wishes. What if they had a child, the baby died and that no bringing dead back to life was a thing. What if the queen was informed she couldn’t have another child or risk losing her own life. So the two set out to find a way of bringing their child back to life…by using the wishes of others, what if the king found a way to use the other wishes as fuel or a catalyst to bring back the child. Food for thought.

To add on to the thought with the king and queen having a kid, what if the kid they “couldn’t have” was the star boy in some way. That would possibly add some things to the story in some way. Then in the end if star boy and asha get together she would become a princess and take over the kingdom in the end. 🤷‍♀️ random thoughts lol

i agree with all your thoughts ur starboy is so cute imma kms and it's disnay's fault i still die inside how they threw him in the trash. btw at the first few seconds of your asha anatomy i randomly thought 'hmm, what if she wear pants cuz she's allergic to skirts or whatever idk' cuz why not she would be a total tomboy and first disney princess with cool outfit like a prince's im a sucker for thar formal attire career woman fashion. love the sparkly gown though

when i listened to the At All Costs demo, it made me think of two parents singing to their child as a kind of lullaby to help them sleep. perhaps it could’ve been the song the king and queen sung to their child before they lost him/her, showing just how much they loved their child.

Your backstory for the "evil couple" isn't bad..... but I have a better one that also concerns Star...to a certain extent. I can't explain it here because I'm working on a fiction rewrite of Wish and it might cause spoilers. But I'm agree with you: Magnifico isn't really a villain. More a spoiled brat.

I honestly loved the Queen and when I watched it I thought it was trash, but the Queen stood out to me. Also villains ( and even real life ones too!) usually have a really bad childhood like for example abuse.

I wonder if they should reanimate this movie if that’s more satisfying like redesign star into a boy meaning they would have to rewrite the plot if Disney could do that it would make 100 years more entertaining

The story seems to say that granting wishes in the past caused the death of someone the king cared about and the destruction of the previous kingdom. He probably left with the people that survived and after seeing the destruction of granting wishes without examining them they agreed to giving up their wishes. That would also be the main reason that reason he did not grant the wish to inspire people since it could have been a similar vague wish that cause the problem in the past. All they had to do if the King and Queen are the villains they could have made her their sheltered younger child that snuck into the town and learnt how bad her parents were abusing their power and how they were now collecting the wishes not to protect everyone but link them to magic from a forbidden book to try and resurrect their eldest son or daughter. For a flaw and trauma Asha could have seen the death of their sibling and thus started to listen to her parents without questioning them until due to seeing someone flying in the sky and trying to follow them. The person flying could have been a guardian star and after following into town the first time she starts sneaking out and makes friends.

Another Studio needs to DO their Original Concept with Different Names for the Character and Kingdom LMAO I still would like to see it. Hell, I'd even watch an animated episodic version of it. If a Movie Length is too short (despite Movies in older Eras could also be as long as 3+ hours, and how Theatre in Ancient Days could LITERALLY take the span of DAYS), then an episodic version would be PERFECT in introducing each character's background slowly and steadily, building tension and teamwork. They can even have the 1st episode have half of it show the issue like "So, this is happening. This is my Life now.... but first, let's rewind and take a moment to see how this all came out this way." Then it goes back to the moment it beforehand. It's a great place to get people interested. Plenty of animations AND books alike have started their Trilogies this way!

The only thing I don’t like about Asha’s design is that it looks like live action Ariel’s lol BUT I STILL LOVE IT SM

It would be better for Asha to be the first orange Disney princess and also here story would be better her dad and the mother wish would love to have another baby also and Asha father gets tired instead of pass away and instead the grand father I’ll be the mothers birthday wish and star boy and Asha deserves to fall in love with star boy 😢also but like her dreams she would be a great queen one day instead being a fairy godmother

Your voice is so sweet, and your energy is wonderful! :D

I actually love the idea of a princess with no love interest like c’mon we only have molana

These are my favourite redraws of the Wish concept art I've seen so far! I love all of them- and you actually gave Asha the magical dress transformation we were robbed of in the movie.

Ok. Hear me out. Asha lives in this seemingly very peaceful kingdom, ruled by a very powerful wizard couple, said to be able to grant any wish each month if you are worthy enough. Since she encountered the King a few months/years ago, she gave up her dreams to him for it to be granted later. She then lived a boring but happy life, carefree, but feeling like something was mising. Each month she attends the ceremony in hope to be granted her wish in vain, each time she comes home demoralized, but the next day hopeful she'll get it the next time. It goes on and on, until one day her grandpa which she was very close to (a father figure) dies without ever having been granted his wish, causing her to doubt whether she would get hers. After all, behind the mask, everyday she struggles to get up, nothing meant anything anymore since she gave her dream away), but she has to keep on, she has to beleive that one day her life changing wish would be granted, not that she would remember it, but she has to beleive. That's what she's been told her whole life : One day, it will all be worth it. It's not the first time someone died without knowing their forgotten dreams in the kingdom, but she's always felt sad about it. As she rummages through the stuff she and her grandpa shared since her childhood, she finds a trinket, something she had forgotten about, but had something she promised her grandpa to do with. Asha studies it long into the night, having completelly forgotten what the promise was about, but wishes about fullfilling it. Thing is, under the stars, her newly-born dream calls upon a star to fall. Yep, it's Starboy, who completely didn't expect to be summoned, hells, he though that was only a legend his star-people told because people stopped call upon them eons ago (because King Magifico and the Queen basically stored away everyone wishes) but in order to ascend back, he has to grant the wish of the person, well easy enough, just needs to be told, but again, Asha's wish is unknown to herself (note : There are a few rules a Starling cannot grant : they cannot influence another person's desires, go back in time and they cannot undo death, which Asha asked for). So Starboy who wishes to go back home accompanies Asha in her quest to find her memories back, discovering feelings for each others along the way, leading them to investigate on the King and Queen's whereabout and why they don't grant everyone's wishes, which has Starboy suspicious about. Turns out, the King and Queen were never... Wizards. They never had the power to grant wishes. They managed to shackle a Starling centuries ago, when he/she came to them when they wished to bring back their child back. When the Starling couldn't grant their wish, they've emprisonned it forced him/her to use the celestial's powers again and again, to grant their wishes over and over for themselves instead of letting it ascend back to the stars. People forgetting about their dreams was them forcefeeding the Starling to avoid letting him/her deperish without the connection to the stars' magic so it can keep granting wishes over and over, power, riches, staying young and other... Since they couldn't affect their subjects directly, each month they would continue to feed hope on people about granting their wishes, but the ones they reward the people with were never the dreams people entrusted them, these are gone, instead they give what people think may give them happiness, but never what they truly lost. Asha and Starling free the Starling, expose the evilness of the King and Queen to the kingdom and finally defeat them with Asha wishing to Starboy to send them somewhere they will never hurt anyone again. Since Asha's wish got granted by banishing the evil royal couple, she cannot use one to remember the promise to her grandpa, nor the things she's forgotten, nor the other people's dreams. The Kingdom is devastated that the memories will never be recovered, but people will heal over time. Starboy's duty done, he must go home with the other Starling, Asha and him cry, because they'll probably never see each other again, Starboy admits his feelings for her, saying that she made him do something a Starling's never done before : He started to dream for himself , that he could stay with her. That's when the saved Starling approaches Starboy, telling him that they can grant his wish of staying, but that he will never be able to come back home again, that it'll make him fully human. He accepts, loses all his magical abilities, his hair stops glowing etc... Epiloque : both are happily annoying each oter like a nice healthy couple as the kingdom gets rebuilt, people started building their own dreams again. All ends good. That's it, I want to see this in a frickin movie now, what do you think ?

I wanted Star so much 😭 He would’ve been such a perfect character - and I would actually squeal for joy if he and Asha had a slight ✨ aww ✨ relationship!!! I 👏 want 👏 him 👏 so 👏 bad 😭

They could’ve kept the concept art and add this little star ball as a side kick to Star boy as well as adding him to be mute rather than talk it would’ve been so cute

Your concept of Star Boy is SO GOOD!! I love it!! It's such a shame it didnt happen fr smh

I'm so happy to find a fellow criss-cross applesauce PNGtuber lol ALSO YOUR DESIGNS AND IDEAS ARE AMAZING, I love Starboy's little smile!!

I saw an animatic where star started as a star and then asha kissed the star and he turned into a boy (a little reference to princess and the frog) and that was such a cute idea!!!

Disney: “we did want to make star a boy because he would be to similar to genie from Aladdin Also Disney: makes Asha practically a carbon copy of the quirky princess.

Magical female characters in Disney: Fairy godmother from Cinderella, the 3 faries and Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty, the one from Pinocchio, Madam Mim from The Sword in the Stone, The Evil Queen from Snow White, Mary Poppins, Ursula from The little Mermaid, the one from Beauty and the Beast. Was never a problem having 11! characters with the same abilities and gender throughout a span of 54 years (never mind 4! in the same movie!). Heck! , Asha even becomes another! fairy godmother figure without that! being an issue! But Starboy and Genie (the only other male, magical character I can think of) being similar when they were created 31 years apart from eachother?! That's 2 too similar characters too many?!

So I got this concept from a different RU-vidr, but basically, their concept was That the villains' whole thing could have been that they tried to get things they wanted without putting any of the work in. They would also promise people that they could fulfill their desires with minimum effort through the use of magic. And the moral of the movie could have been about how it's much better and more fulfilling to achieve your dreams through hard work, then it is to have them given to you.

maybe it could be something like this asha could be the real princess and one day a couple of wizards arrived in the kingdom and somehow tricked the former king and queen and stole their throne and the star boy could be the secret behind their power and At some point he escapes and disguises himself in a human form and so he ends up meeting Asha and they both feel a connection with each other for sharing this feeling of something being taken from them even though asha has no memories of her past, and they have to face the king and queen and gradually get to know each other. better and maybe the star boy needed to contain his power so as not to be found and Asha ends up finding out about her past but no one opposes the king and queen because they tell everyone that they have much more to offer and so on (I know that It's cliche and kind of bad but maybe I'll try to do something with it) 😅

The way u drew starboy🥹🙌

I watched Godzilla Minus One, y'know, a movie made for it's 70th anniversary, and I fk LOVED IT, how comes Disney, celebrating 100 YEARS, messes up THIS BADLY???

Can you imagine Asha asking Star where he is from if he has a family and he says of course and points up 👆 and says “the sky is my home and all the stars are my brothers and sisters”

They could have put some of Jack Frost's personality so he was: Serivous, protective, fun and loving. To give him character. You should actually be the movie creator❤.

I really wish Disney would have gone down this path for star because asha is kind, caring, funny, joyful and dependable and star is the the same and if star was a boy I think asha and star boy would be a really cute couple

Omg the star is boy feels like a teen version of the collector and I do not know how I feel about this. And then the evil king could be the archivists. Did I just want a longer season 3 of owl house? Yes.

a little late but here is my grain of sand: What if the theme this movie is about is not only wishes, but how you loose, obtain or change those same wishes as you grow up. Like let's say Asha's wish is to be a Princess (a Disney Princess if you will), because she used to hear and read stories about those princesses and how they went in adventures, found their one true love or obtained fun powers (add some referencces to the previous disney princesses). So she wants to have that "romanticized" life of a princess. This is something she carries till the day she is going to turn 18 and thus has to give her wish to Magnifico. Ironically enough that is the price she will have to pay to become his apprentice which is the closest she is ever gonna get to become the equivalent of a princess in this kingdom. Magnifico (He being evil or not depends) explains to her what exactly covneys to be the one responsible for the wishes, how hard it is to decide which one will become true and which one should be forgotten. This of course is too much for Asha to take in as she was until this moment living all her life in this whimsical dreamland that the king and her own childlike innocence kept her. The king offers her till the day of tomorrow, which is when she will turn 18, to make the decision and she goes outside the city to clear her mind. Enter Starboy, celestial being coming from the stars full of energy, wonder and desire to have fun. Here we will have a contrast: The king representing the concept of adulthood in the sense of having to deal with problems, abandoning hopes, dreams and learning that there are some wishes that can't be realized. The star representing the concept of childhood, full of wonder, curiosity and carelessness, everything is possible if we belive in it hard enough. Asha of course seeing this guy who literally fell out of the sky takes this as a sygn that her wish is possible and she can become the princess she wants so much. We start the conflict, these two worlds clash and reality starts to show both Asha and Starboy that not because you have the power to make each and every wish come true means that you should do it. We could even make Starboy a Prince that ran away from his home in the sky because he like Asha couldn't bear the thought of having to say goodbye to childhood so soon after he grew and developed his wishgranting powers. (Add some reference to The Little Prince of Saint-Exupery if we feel daring) Plot plot plot, yada yada yada, maybe the king and the queen are actually evil and are using the wishes of the poppulation as ways of control (Cough cough disney) maybe they are actually so hurt by the death of their daughter (that looks a lot like Asha) that they had become evil or overly cautious, maybe they want to sacrifice Asha to bring their daughter back to life. Plot plot plot, and in the end, we have a more mature verison of Asha and Starboy accepting their places as the new rulers of the kingdom, Starboy going from prince to king and Asha leaving behind her wish to be a princess and becoming a Queen with a desire to help her kingdom instead. Showing us that even in a world full of magic: -Life can't always be a fairy tale but that doesn't mean it can't be magical by itself. -You will eventually stop being a kid and will have to take responsibility. -Even if aging is inevitable that doesn't mean you have to say goodbye completely to your childhood wishes. -And your wishes can change as you keep growing, because the magic, hopes and dreams that can not only make a wish come true but generate more wishes, was always inside you all along.

These redesigns are gorgeous!

Who doesn't want a cute, mischievous, shape shifting star boy, how dare you Disney

I'm not sold on your use of dark browns, it's falling into the hole that the movie dug with bland colors. Saturated blues and golds, or light blues to mimic the blue fairy, something colorful and interesting. He just looks so plain. Asha definitely needed a star princess gown transformation. It's like disney forgot all its fun tropes just to shove a bunch of easter eggs in there.

I think it would be interesting to explore the Star Boy as a much more chaotic magical being, maybe half of his wishes just blow up into random magical nonsense (singing animals?) or don’t make any sense at first cause he doesn’t actually know how to control his magic or maybe he just doesn’t know what people want (cause he was a star that wasn’t wished on for a long time). Asha and Star Boy could explore the city figuring out people’s desires and pushing them towards granting them themselves helping to remove the reliance on the evil couple for wishes being granted. Then they both would gain romantic chemistry during the process.

The internet would have gone nuts for him, like Disney's own Jack Frost.

*why is star boy so perfect...?*

Love the miraculous ladybug reference I was literally thinking about that!!😂 8:21

I thought of how you could explain Asha becoming royalty! After the villainous rulers are defeated, the town realised they still need someone in charge and Asha looks to Star and asks what she should do. He smiles and tells her to make a wish. Asha wishes that someone kind and deserving would rule over Rosas with grace and dignity for their people. And as her wish is granted she has a Cinderella style dress transformation as a nod to Cinderella and becomes Princess Asha of Rosas, and when she asks Star why it's her the town answers for him saying she truly believed in everyone's wishes. Too cheesy? But hey it kind of makes sense

It would've been an nice reference from the princess and the frog if starboy's parents names were Evangeline and Ray/Raymond

Personally, I think a sticking point with character writing is that ALL characters are flawed characters - all personality traits are double edged swords that can help or hurt a character in equal measure, depending on environment and circumstances. Honest characters with integrity will have a hard time in places that reward cunning and lies. Cowardice and bravery are equally likely to get you killed depending on the circumstances. Even "caring too much" can be spun as a legitimate flaw if caring too much puts the main character or those around them in jeopardy. The problem with so called 'perfect characters' is not that they're actually perfect, but that the narrative TREATS them like they are. It's VERY easy to interpret Asha as a flawed character as written. She makes a blanket judgement of what would be best for the people of Rosas based on her personal beliefs, not actually taking into account what they want. Asha is self righteous, jumps to conclusions, and makes moral judgements with little context. The problem is that the story's narrative TREATS Asha as being completely in the right when the average audience member would not deem her to be. It's ANNOYING when a story ignores the objective context of the situation and tries to sell us a false narrative. It's poor writing. Asha could easily be a good character in a story that actually challenges her beliefs and showcased her flaws for character development. But the story doesn't do that because it decides to sell Asha to us as a perfect hero of the story and Magnifico as a villain who is unilaterally in the wrong.

The king knows how hard is lost someone, but he didn't actually talk about it. For me, a better background to him is keeping his power to keeps Amaya alive. His wife died a long time ago and wiches keep her alive. She still can be good and decided to gives up of her second live for her subjects, but he must be consumed by ambition in the end as well. Maybe she still alive because somes sbjects give up of some wishes to her, because people has so many wishes that they can be change or offer to another one.

What if Star was the King and Queens son, and when he died he turned into a star in the sky to grant peoples wishes, and he's helping Asha to stop his parents cause he doesn't want his parents to destroy the kingdom just to bring him back to life. Then he grants their wish for a day to be with his parents and goes back to being a star in the sky. Idk, doesn't make sense but I would've honestly watched a plot line like that, it sounds cool.