{"id":87857,"date":"2026-08-20T10:17:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T14:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=87857"},"modified":"2026-08-20T10:55:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T14:55:03","slug":"a-kingdom-hearts-movie-its-not-ruled-out-disney-exec-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=87857","title":{"rendered":"A Kingdom Hearts Movie? It\u2019s Not Ruled Out, Disney Exec Says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Kingdom Hearts series is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/disney-has-9-gaming-franchises-that-have-generated-1-billion-at-retail-including-kingdom-hearts\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/disney-has-9-gaming-franchises-that-have-generated-1-billion-at-retail-including-kingdom-hearts\/\">one of nine gaming franchises at Disney to reach $1 billion in sales<\/a>. With that success and the recent news of a <a href=\"https:\/\/thewaltdisneycompany.com\/news\/kingdom-hearts-tv-series\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/thewaltdisneycompany.com\/news\/kingdom-hearts-tv-series\/\">Kingdom Hearts TV show for Disney+<\/a>, some fans are wondering if a movie could be next.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s the question that <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/IGN\/status\/2089510648891781387\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/IGN\/status\/2089510648891781387\">IGN <\/a>put to Walt Disney Animation Studios boss Jared Bush. He didn\u2019t confirm anything one way or another, but said &#8220;nothing is impossible&#8221; on that front.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I am always excited to hear what people are passionate about. And I&#8217;d say we have a very bright future of new projects coming out. Different ways of putting material out into the world. So I would just say, nothing is impossible,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bush is the current chief creative officer at Walt Disney Animation Studios, a role he&#8217;s held since 2024. He also co-wrote and co-directed Zootopia and its sequel, both of which were massive hits. Additionally, Bush co-directed Encanto (earning himself an Academy Award) and wrote the screenplay for Moana. <\/p>\n<p>  https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lybMpYeO9L8  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After the Kingdom Hearts series debuted in 2002, filmmaker Seth Kearsley created a pilot for an animated Kingdom Hearts TV show. He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cartoonbrew.com\/lost-films\/kingdom-hearts-lost-pilot-animatic-online-222135.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.cartoonbrew.com\/lost-films\/kingdom-hearts-lost-pilot-animatic-online-222135.html\">posted an early, animatic version online<\/a>, but it has<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kingdom Hearts series is one of nine gaming franchises at Disney to reach $1 billion in sales. With that success and the recent news of a Kingdom Hearts TV show for Disney+, some fans are wondering if a movie could be next. That&#8217;s the question that IGN put to Walt Disney Animation Studios boss&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":87859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87857"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87857"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87860,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87857\/revisions\/87860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/87859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}