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Question about the SAG-AFTRA Strike



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Cooper Newton

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Hello,
I know it's been a while since I have been on this forum last. But I have a question regarding the currently-ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike and its potential effect on the Kingdom Hearts series.

Based on my research, one of the companies struck by the union is Disney Character Voices, which is a subsidiary of the Walt Disney Company. However, they seem to only be responsible for the translation and dubbing of Disney productions, like the films and theme parks. The group actually involved in video game development is Disney Interactive, which is not one of the struck companies.

My question is how exactly is the Kingdom Hearts series, specifically Missing-Link and KH4, going to be affected by the strike? Is it possible that anyone can actually work on the series during the strike? There are two conflicting elements to this:

  • I am aware of the use of interim agreements being given to at least 80 different productions, though I have not heard Square Enix signing these agreements.
  • I am aware of there being a cut off point of games that started development prior to September 2023 not being affected by the strike, so KH4 and ML should not be affected by this...unless it is actually meant to be voice recording production and not necessarily games that were in general development before then.
If anyone else has additional information and thoughts about the matter, please let me know. Thank you and have a nice day.
 

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Disney Character Voices is involved in KH for the Disney character voice acting. I think the rest are handled by Square Enix, but not 100% sure.

Other than that, we only know pretty much exactly what you said. We’re not really sure if the cutoff applies from the start of the game development or the start of voice recording. My guess is it may depend whether contracts were already in place or not by that point.
 

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Thank you for the response. Yeah. I guess we will have to wait and see what happens.
 

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I actually found this. I wonder if Kingdom Hearts would be exempt from the strike now since it is made in Japan?


Edit: It looks like SE and/or Disney would still have to agree to the terms of this agreement for it to apply.
 
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