The rumor mill is churning, and one of its latest suggestions is one of those concepts so obvious it’s difficult to believe that it hasn’t happened before: a Kingdom Hearts movie.
It was always difficult to imagine how Disney hadn’t adapted its role-playing partnership with Square Enix into another medium. In a post-Spider-Verse world where everyone is thinking about multiversal crossovers all the time, however, it seems like a total head-scratcher. The base concept of Kingdom Hearts – a swashbuckling adventure that takes an original character on a Magic Kingdom style tour of Disney worlds and properties – feels built for this era.
There’s one part of the rumor I’m not vibing with, however – the idea that this is a movie. Allow me to step back for a moment and make a declarative statement as if I’m king of the universe: if there’s some sort of Kingdom Hearts adaptation, it should be a TV show. And the format of that TV show is already in place on Disney Plus.
