Regardless of Kingdom Hearts’ seemingly countless capability to proceed current, its relationship with Disney past the literal video games themselves has all the time been just a little distant—not less than on the Disney aspect of issues. You’re not going to see Sora within the theme parks maybe any time quickly, however as soon as upon a time that wasn’t all the time going to be the case.
Animator Seth Kearsley, who as soon as served as government producer on a deliberate animated adaptation of the primary Kingdom Hearts sport, just lately revealed that he’d discovered a long-thought-lost VHS recording of the sequence’ animatic pilot, used to pitch executives on the concept of a Disney adaptation of the action-RPG sequence. Now, simply weeks after discovering it, Kearsly has launched the 11-minute brief on-line for followers to see what may need been.
The sequence was greenlit shortly after the launch of the primary sport, however by no means made it to air after being scrapped by Disney and Sq. Enix. Kearsley, who has spoken in regards to the challenge overtly right here and there for years, just lately mirrored on his intent to share extra in regards to the unseen work after being in a near-fatal automobile accident. “I nearly died, and there’s some shit I wanna put out on this planet that just about by no means acquired to be put out on this planet,” Kearsley stated in a video made after the invention of the animatic recording. “So I’m gonna put it out on this planet. That’s loads of stuff, I do know—possibly that’s just a little too private, however every part is just a little too private for me now.”
The 11-minute storyboard animatic, titled “Agrabah,” is a fast, free approximation of a number of the early beats of the unique Kingdom Hearts, first launched in 2002. The brief opens with a short rationalization of authentic characters Sora, Riku, and Kairi being separated from their island house by an assault by mysterious creatures generally known as the Heartless, earlier than Sora and Riku discover themselves happening totally different paths to rescue Kairi. A lot of the sport’s solid returned to voice their roles—save for Haley Joel Osment as Sora, changed by actor Bobby Edner as a consequence of scheduling commitments, in response to Kearsley—and it’s by and enormous a surprisingly direct tackle the sequence.
The totally different floating worlds primarily based on basic Disney films; Sora, Donald, and Goofy’s battle animations; the way in which the heartless explode into clouds of neon, toylike stars on defeat; and even a number of the sport’s eventual darkness—Riku being introduced beneath the thrall of Maleficent, who’s working with the Heartless—are touched on. Utterly out of nowhere, there’s even a teeny little bit of iconic Hikaru Utada banger “Easy and Clear” in there for good measure!
Alas, that is possible all there ever can be of a Kingdom Hearts animated adaptation. The video games themselves have lengthy since diverged into authentic tales, with the Disney components appearing extra as set dressing to their often-memed-upon plots. The concept of a Disney-made Kingdom Hearts present now would look very totally different to what Kearsley and his staff ever deliberate, however not less than we now, a long time later, get to see what may’ve been.
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