Shortly after its smash-hit release, the beloved popular Disney Japanese RPG video game series Kingdom Hearts was going to have its own animated series on the Disney Channel. The project began back in 2002 by Seth Kearsley, the show's writer and director. The series was supposed to have an anime-like art style and feature the plot, characters, and Disney worlds just like in the games. Early drafts and storyboards were drawn and then presented to Disney officials. However, Disney turned down the project and the early drafted pilot because they thought it was "incredibly dark" for a show for its channels and audience.
In 2014, the creator posted storyboard panels of the supposed pilot on his DeviantArt and a YouTube user by the name of Brandon Gonzalez interviewed Kearsley about his past project.
Fans hold onto hope that one day Disney will have a Kingdom Hearts series air onto their channels, since Gravity Falls became a popular series with a dark and morbid premise. The only thing that exists of now is the early storyboard pictures and Seth Kearsley's earlier drafts of the show.
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On October 11th, 2022 the animatic for the pitch pilot was released by the show’s director. However, three days later, the animatic was taken down by the show's director due to a request from an "old friend" at Disney. Nevertheless, the animatic has been mirrored on several different websites.
