It's no secret that a KH anime was planned ages ago and with the news that disney are in favour of a film regarding KH I sat down and thought of a few ideas, some of these are serious ideas and I'll clearly identify them and others are completely ridiculous, but hey a bit of fun doesn't hurt anyone right? Also in true KH style I came up with 13 ideas. I will briefly explain the concept of the film, then outline the positive and negatives, alas let the madness begin haha.
1) serious idea- a shortened version of the first game. I doubt the plot of the first game needs explaining, but this seems like a logical idea for a film. People who haven't played the games can enjoy a basic entry to the series ( like basic exists in this franchise) the negatives would be, we'd have to lose a few worlds in order to not make this film go on for an eternity, and it wouldn't feel fresh. I mean we've played the first game, chain of memories, re chain of memories, recoded, watched recorded, final mix, 1.5, 1.5 and 2.5, I mean come on this feels slightly over done by now!
2) silly idea- Kingdom Hearts: A Pluto Story- a film solely based on Pluto, a heartbroken dog on a mission to find his lost master, literally running away in Traverse Town, ending up who knows where and becoming a post dog by the end of the first game, actually I'd seriously watch this haha... Don't judge... Please.
3) serious idea and my ideal preference- The Fall of Radiant Garden- this event was alluded to in the first game and in the second game we see the recovery of Radiant Garden, but we haven't actually seen Maleficent and the heartless occupy the world, I'd start the film with Apprentice Xehanort forcing the others to fall to darkness ( we've seen this briefly), then with an absence of keyblade heroes ( BBS trio in peril and Sora and co to young) have the world fall, perhaps we can see Leon and the gang fleeing to Traverse Town, Kairi being sent to destiny Islands and all round destruction. The advantages would be we'd seen a missing plot piece of the series, the negatives would be less disney unless Scrooge mcduck is our main character and people would be confused if they didn't know the plot. It would be bold, but hey Rogue One took chances and imo worked.
4) silly idea- Kingdom Hearts the musical- an hour and. A half of endless singing, sora dancing and Donald having his own concert. Let's take Atlantica to another level people! Positives- might be a few catchy songs, kids would probably watch it in droves, negatives- Donald singing.... Let's move on
5) Serious idea- the events between CoM and KH2, this would be more of a sequel film if they follow the games path, however we've seen 358/2 days from Roxas' perspective, how about the other side, the struggle with Diz for his revenge, Riku to go to lengths to help Sora and Mickey's plans too. Positives, potentially we could see a moral struggle here between the characters, negatives I feel it would be dull and tbh whilst not unlikely, would be a waste of potential.
6) Silly idea- let's eat ice cream! Let's not have a film with cool fights, good plot, let's watch a bunch of characters eat sea salt ice cream for the film. Heck, we could have a master chef moment ( eating ice cream does not get tougher than this- got s feeling the brits will get this reference). Disney could release their own brand of ice cream and watxh sales shoot up, negatives, we'd probably be hungry the time this film finished
7) serious idea- the first keyblade war. This was my biggest let down with back cover, I wanted to see the war in action, make me appreciate the full devastation of the war and the aftermath. We didn't get this, so why not use a film for this? If done well this could be a good film, my positives and negatives would be similar to the fall of radiant garden.
8) silly idea- Jiminy Cricket- the Unsung hero! Follow Jiminy as he is forced to enter countless battles, take on Ansem, lose his memories and countiess other activities the poor cricket does to maintain the best journal in kingdom hearts, who needs the book of prophecies when we have Jiminy?
9) serious idea- this one is slightly unusual, but why not have a film about someone Falling to darkness ans exploring both the heartless and nobody, we could understand both concepts in either a philosophical or psychological concept and by the end make us appreciate our enemies. Positives, would be very abstract and would be cool to watch. Negatives, I doubt kids could understand this and well do we really want to have a conscience when we want to level up? Yes, yes we do now.
10) silly idea- Kingdom Hearts election time. It's election time on destiny islands and the candidates to become mayor must brave the disney worlds to woo voters, along the way the make promises they can't keep and make people feel like they'd rather have the mayor from Halloween Town. Positives, could actually work as a comedy film and wouldn't be plot related, negatives more politics and I studied politics too haha.
11) serious idea- Mickey's story. Mickey is disney's icon. He is also a main and beloved character. Now do you remember the portraits of Mickey's ancestors in Disney castle? This film could explore them and explain Mickey's ancestors and path to keyblade master. The positives, would enable new characters to be established, the return of classic characters, we could even have a black and white section of the film as homage to Steamboat Willie. We'd see the evolution of our beloved mouse and we would also see the change from timeless river to disney castle. Negatives, hard to see actually, I'm down for this.
12) final silly idea- Shakespeare Kingdom Hearts, let's send the gang to speaking olde english and performing a Shakespeare play. Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet we have a huge choice...
13) final serious idea- build up the next saga- explore either the next antagonist and their ambitions or tease us, perhaps have the key events of the film from a first person perspective and have this person assess the series. If it was down to me, I would not reveal the identity of the person, but through first person have us understand them as a character and make us want to know who they are! The positives, the series would progress onwards making People crave KH4, we'd have no new questions regarding the old saga and we could genuinely have fun and create new theories about who this person is, I'd want this film to be very mysterious and constantly make the audience work to pick up small clues. Negatives, first person the whole film could make awkward viewing, would square actually be up for this?
Overall, this is mostly for fun, that being said this took ages to type up and I'd be intrigued to what others think of any of my ideas, the serious ones I'd be able to discuss more so and well the silly ones, excluding Pluto well... Haha
It's no secret that a KH anime was planned ages ago and with the news that disney are in favour of a film regarding KH I sat down and thought of a few ideas, some of these are serious ideas and I'll clearly identify them and others are completely ridiculous, but hey a bit of fun doesn't hurt anyone right? Also in true KH style I came up with 13 ideas. I will briefly explain the concept of the film, then outline the positive and negatives, alas let the madness begin haha.
1) serious idea- a shortened version of the first game. I doubt the plot of the first game needs explaining, but this seems like a logical idea for a film. People who haven't played the games can enjoy a basic entry to the series ( like basic exists in this franchise) the negatives would be, we'd have to lose a few worlds in order to not make this film go on for an eternity, and it wouldn't feel fresh. I mean we've played the first game, chain of memories, re chain of memories, recoded, watched recorded, final mix, 1.5, 1.5 and 2.5, I mean come on this feels slightly over done by now!
2) silly idea- Kingdom Hearts: A Pluto Story- a film solely based on Pluto, a heartbroken dog on a mission to find his lost master, literally running away in Traverse Town, ending up who knows where and becoming a post dog by the end of the first game, actually I'd seriously watch this haha... Don't judge... Please.
3) serious idea and my ideal preference- The Fall of Radiant Garden- this event was alluded to in the first game and in the second game we see the recovery of Radiant Garden, but we haven't actually seen Maleficent and the heartless occupy the world, I'd start the film with Apprentice Xehanort forcing the others to fall to darkness ( we've seen this briefly), then with an absence of keyblade heroes ( BBS trio in peril and Sora and co to young) have the world fall, perhaps we can see Leon and the gang fleeing to Traverse Town, Kairi being sent to destiny Islands and all round destruction. The advantages would be we'd seen a missing plot piece of the series, the negatives would be less disney unless Scrooge mcduck is our main character and people would be confused if they didn't know the plot. It would be bold, but hey Rogue One took chances and imo worked.
4) silly idea- Kingdom Hearts the musical- an hour and. A half of endless singing, sora dancing and Donald having his own concert. Let's take Atlantica to another level people! Positives- might be a few catchy songs, kids would probably watch it in droves, negatives- Donald singing.... Let's move on
5) Serious idea- the events between CoM and KH2, this would be more of a sequel film if they follow the games path, however we've seen 358/2 days from Roxas' perspective, how about the other side, the struggle with Diz for his revenge, Riku to go to lengths to help Sora and Mickey's plans too. Positives, potentially we could see a moral struggle here between the characters, negatives I feel it would be dull and tbh whilst not unlikely, would be a waste of potential.
6) Silly idea- let's eat ice cream! Let's not have a film with cool fights, good plot, let's watch a bunch of characters eat sea salt ice cream for the film. Heck, we could have a master chef moment ( eating ice cream does not get tougher than this- got s feeling the brits will get this reference). Disney could release their own brand of ice cream and watxh sales shoot up, negatives, we'd probably be hungry the time this film finished
7) serious idea- the first keyblade war. This was my biggest let down with back cover, I wanted to see the war in action, make me appreciate the full devastation of the war and the aftermath. We didn't get this, so why not use a film for this? If done well this could be a good film, my positives and negatives would be similar to the fall of radiant garden.
8) silly idea- Jiminy Cricket- the Unsung hero! Follow Jiminy as he is forced to enter countless battles, take on Ansem, lose his memories and countiess other activities the poor cricket does to maintain the best journal in kingdom hearts, who needs the book of prophecies when we have Jiminy?
9) serious idea- this one is slightly unusual, but why not have a film about someone Falling to darkness ans exploring both the heartless and nobody, we could understand both concepts in either a philosophical or psychological concept and by the end make us appreciate our enemies. Positives, would be very abstract and would be cool to watch. Negatives, I doubt kids could understand this and well do we really want to have a conscience when we want to level up? Yes, yes we do now.
10) silly idea- Kingdom Hearts election time. It's election time on destiny islands and the candidates to become mayor must brave the disney worlds to woo voters, along the way the make promises they can't keep and make people feel like they'd rather have the mayor from Halloween Town. Positives, could actually work as a comedy film and wouldn't be plot related, negatives more politics and I studied politics too haha.
11) serious idea- Mickey's story. Mickey is disney's icon. He is also a main and beloved character. Now do you remember the portraits of Mickey's ancestors in Disney castle? This film could explore them and explain Mickey's ancestors and path to keyblade master. The positives, would enable new characters to be established, the return of classic characters, we could even have a black and white section of the film as homage to Steamboat Willie. We'd see the evolution of our beloved mouse and we would also see the change from timeless river to disney castle. Negatives, hard to see actually, I'm down for this.
12) final silly idea- Shakespeare Kingdom Hearts, let's send the gang to speaking olde english and performing a Shakespeare play. Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet we have a huge choice...
13) final serious idea- build up the next saga- explore either the next antagonist and their ambitions or tease us, perhaps have the key events of the film from a first person perspective and have this person assess the series. If it was down to me, I would not reveal the identity of the person, but through first person have us understand them as a character and make us want to know who they are! The positives, the series would progress onwards making People crave KH4, we'd have no new questions regarding the old saga and we could genuinely have fun and create new theories about who this person is, I'd want this film to be very mysterious and constantly make the audience work to pick up small clues. Negatives, first person the whole film could make awkward viewing, would square actually be up for this?
Overall, this is mostly for fun, that being said this took ages to type up and I'd be intrigued to what others think of any of my ideas, the serious ones I'd be able to discuss more so and well the silly ones, excluding Pluto well... Haha