I really random thought: what if former cast members returned to play different characters?
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I raised this idea on here once and the entirety of hell was thrown at me for having such a thought
What an odd thing for people to get salty over…I raised this idea on here once and the entirety of hell was thrown at me for having such a thought
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It's a good thing the only PotC movies left for KH to cover are ones that she either isn't in or is barely in.
So a Disney Princess Lego special went up on Disney+ last month and this month's update to Dreamlight Valley* had Mandy Moore reprise her role as Rapunzel for both pieces of media.
I am so, so, so curious as to what prevented her in 2018 from reprising Rapunzel for Kingdom Hearts 3. If This Is Us took her time away, how did they not find time during her recording for Tangled the Series as those were happening concurrently and therefore there should have been a day or two she would have been free to make some extra cash. Does she hate Kingdom Hearts? Was Aerith a dream role that she landed then had ripped away from her and she swore a vendetta against the series? Does she not agree with a teenage boy using a key to beat up monsters?
WHAT'S THE REASON, MANDY MOORE!? WHY DO YOU NOT LET US ENJOY YOUR WORK IN THIS GAME AFTER 2002!?
*Rapunzel wasn't added but the credits were updated to include her name, showing that she reprised the role for an upcoming update that will add Rapunzel.
I am so, so, so curious as to what prevented her in 2018 from reprising Rapunzel for Kingdom Hearts 3. If This Is Us took her time away, how did they not find time during her recording for Tangled the Series as those were happening concurrently and therefore there should have been a day or two she would have been free to make some extra cash. Does she hate Kingdom Hearts? Was Aerith a dream role that she landed then had ripped away from her and she swore a vendetta against the series? Does she not agree with a teenage boy using a key to beat up monsters?
WHAT'S THE REASON, MANDY MOORE!? WHY DO YOU NOT LET US ENJOY YOUR WORK IN THIS GAME AFTER 2002!?
*Rapunzel wasn't added but the credits were updated to include her name, showing that she reprised the role for an upcoming update that will add Rapunzel.
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Y’know, I was always curious about that too. Of all the FF characters reintroduced in KH2, only Selphie and Cloud were brought back to reprise from KH1. Most of the FF7 characters that came back were played by the actors reprising from the Advent Children movie with the exception of Yuffie.
I fully understand the team at Square Enix re-evaluating the FF voice cast in 2005 when coming into the era of voice work, and with Advent Children on the rise, and I understand their desire to recast Mandy if she was unavailable (which of course lead Aerith to be voiced by Mena Suvari and then Andrea Bowen which included III Remind) but even then, why say no to KHIII but yes to all these other bits of media.
I am still convinced that there was a last minute scramble going on there to get Rapunzel a VA for KH3. Back when the trailers were coming out in both English and Japanese, something that always stuck out to me was how any scenes with Rapunzel had her completely silent in the English version, whereas the Japanese versions had her fully voiced.
It's almost as if the casting people were banking on Mandy being on board, only to be left high and dry.
It's almost as if the casting people were banking on Mandy being on board, only to be left high and dry.
I will say, as someone who's usually a stickler for this kinda thing, the actress that played Rapunzel was DEAD ON in KH3, it was an extremely solid impression. If anything, Zachary Levi sounded less like Eugene than he ought to have. I didn't watch the TV show front to back, but his take on the character seems to have changed a lot over the years. He sounded like a regular dude in Tangled, but his KH3 performance was so over the top that it really took me out.
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Yeah, Levi sounded better in the animated series imo
She was excellent. So much so that I was fully convinced Mandy was back because, when compared to the show, it sounded just like her.
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I’m guessing it was a direction choice if anything. Maybe they asked him to try and match the energy of the seiyuu, which is ironic considering Levi voiced Eugene first.
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Keira Knightley reveals plans to copyright her face as she’s concerned about rise of AI
Her remarks come amid the writers and actors’ strikes in the US, fuelled by the use of artificial intelligence to replace human actorsuk.yahoo.com
It's a good thing the only PotC movies left for KH to cover are ones that she either isn't in or is barely in.
I'm not sure what argument is being made here but she and every other actor already own the rights to their own likenesses -- unless they'd been signed away, which those deals have to go out of their way to do.
In any case. Square and Disney had to pay for using the likenesses of those characters in both KH2 and KH3. There's literally no change.
I feel kinda stupid for forgetting this fact.
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Nah. This stuff is weird and complicated.