Disney Animation Studios Boss Jared Bush Isn't Ruling Out a Possible Kingdom Hearts Movie

Jared Bush, main originative serviceman of Walt Disney Animation Studios, spoke astir the anticipation of a Kingdom Hearts diagnostic film, and helium didn’t regularisation retired the idea.

Kingdom Hearts fans are connected apical of the satellite aft footage of the 4th crippled was shown disconnected astatine D23. Sora and the pack are backmost to combat the heartless, which are wreaking havoc successful the Land of the Dead. Coco’s beingness is an explorable satellite successful Kingdom Hearts IV, and Sora adjacent gets a keyblade themed aft Héctor's Guitar, on with immoderate calavera facepaint to match.

A Kingdom Hearts animated bid was besides announced astatine the event, coming to Disney+ connected an as-yet undetermined date. With these 2 large reveals successful mind, IGN’s Jeffrey Vega quizzed Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Jared Bush if there’s thing much planned for the Kingdom Hearts satellite connected Disney’s broadside of things… specifically, a feature-length animated film.

“Are we ever gonna get a Kingdom Hearts movie?” Vega asked, going connected to gag that Bush fundamentally has the powerfulness to “greenlight” the project.

“Technically, you’re not wrong,” Bush answered. “I’d say, I’m ever excited to perceive what radical are passionate about. And I’d accidental that we person a precise agleam aboriginal of caller projects coming retired — antithetic ways of putting worldly retired into the world. So I would conscionable say, thing is impossible.”

Bush’s effect was, arsenic expected, rather reserved, but his open-ended reply leaves nary extremity of possibilities to the imagination. Given each the bully quality fans conscionable got astir the franchise, specifically the animated show, the thought of a full-length CGI movie pursuing Sora’s adventures doesn’t look truthful intolerable now... particularly since Disney precocious bragged that Kingdom Hearts is 1 of its "billion-dollar franchises."

Kingdom Hearts IV is scheduled for merchandise successful precocious 2027. Combat footage from Coco’s conception of the crippled seen astatine D23 shows Sora utilizing the keyblade arsenic a benignant of skateboard arsenic helium follows a flying heartless, to which he’s tethered by a glowing chain. Graphically, the crippled looks perfectly stunning, with the endless metropolis of the dormant giving an awesome extent to the environment.

This astir caller trailer besides showed disconnected Mickey, Goofy, and our iconic king of the underworld, Hades, arsenic good arsenic a fewer glimpses of immoderate communicative beats that instrumentality spot successful Quadratum, a realistic metropolis inspired by modern-day Tokyo — an country that was besides shown successful the game's astonishment trailer astatine the June 2026 Nintendo Direct.

This isn’t the past we’ll spot of Kingdom Hearts IV this weekend; the crippled volition besides beryllium discussed connected August 15 successful a sheet titled ‘DEEP DIVE into KINGDOM HEARTS astatine D23,’ streaming astatine 4.30pm PT / 7.30pm ET / August 16 astatine 12.30 AM UK time. Disney has confirmed that it volition diagnostic a “behind-the-scenes look astatine the making of the games,” with names similar Nana Gadd from Disney & Pixar Games, Tai Yasue from Square Enix, Haley Joel Osment, the dependable of Sora, David Gallagher, the dependable of Riku, and Renée Johnson, who voices immoderate of the Disney-specific characters.

In the meantime, support it locked to IGN for much quality coming retired of D23 this weekend, and cheque retired everything that got announced astatine the event’s large presumption astatine the Honda Center connected August 14.

Virginia (she/her) is IGN’s News Editor. With 10 years of acquisition reporting connected games and entertainment, she’s got a storied inheritance successful the warring crippled community, influencer news, and viral online trends. Find her connected Twitter astatine @TheeMissGlaze.

Jeffrey Vega is the Lead Social Host/Producer astatine IGN and is astir apt feeding his neopets close now. You tin travel him connected Twitter @jeffreyvega, Instagram, and IGN's TikTok.