Last year we were flooded with news popping up seemingly every day of old faces returning to our screen. Some of which we have already embraced with new stories, and others we are on stand-by. This year, however, well…it has been rather slow.
That is until now, the rebooted and returns are marching on as several brands from long ago (or not that long ago) are back and ready for that next stage.
After being a massive success back when this filmed opened in 2014, fans of Disney’s Big Hero 6 where calling out for more. And for a while it seemed like any type of sequel was a pipe dream that would only likely happen years and years later.
Yet it is only going to technically take three. Today it was announced that Big Hero 6 will have their own series on Disney XD next year. Here is the official press-release!
Disney’s Oscar-winning film Big Hero 6 will get new life as an animated TV series for kids and tweens set to premiere on Disney XD in 2017.
Picking up immediately after the events of the 2014 film, the new series will further the adventures of 14-year-old tech wunderkind Hiro and his medical robot-turned-cuddly hero Baymax. Hiro, now something of a legend at the San Fransokyo Institute of Technology, will face “daunting academic challenges and the social trials of being the little man on campus. Off campus, the stakes are raised for the high-tech heroes as they must protect their city from an array of scientifically enhanced villains.”
The other core characters from the film — including Wasabi, Honey Lemon, Fred, and Go Go — will also return, lest there be no eponymously-named superhero team, Big Hero 6.
The series will be executive produced by Mark McCorkle and Bob Schooley, who created Disney Channel’s hit 2002 adventure series Kim Possible. Nick Filippi will also executive produce the Disney Television Animation series.
Disney Channels Worldwide president Gary Marsh said of the series: “Our colleagues at Walt Disney Animation Studios have created a brilliant new world, inspired by Marvel, with vivid, unique characters. We are thrilled to have the opportunity to further develop these characters into a world class animated series — full of fun, action and the kind of endearing storytelling that only Mark, Bob — and Baymax — can deliver.”
Big Hero 6, a story with roots in the form of comics, tells what an origin story is now clearly for the heroes known as Big Hero 6. The core of the story follows a fourteen-year-old genius Hiro, a less than typical teenager that finds his mirobots have been taken by a masked man and set out, along with his brother’s reboot Baymx and a group of friends, to discover the truth.
Just that summary alone leaves a lot of room for growth in terms of narration and even character development. A lot can, and should be done with Big Hero 6- so the fact we are seeing more is fantastic.
On record I must admit I was not massively hyped until I seen the names of the executive producers- Mark McCorkle and Bob Schooley. Just yes. If you have read any of my articles you know growing up I was a massive fan, and remain today, of Kim Possible. So to see this duo at the hem of another action series is fantastic. I love what they can do.
With this and DuckTales’s reboot coming next year a lot more action driven content and more so animated seems to be what Disney XD is aiming for. It is great, especially when you think just how dynamic these characters are.
Maybe we can see Kim Possible join this line-up?
Join the conversation: Are you ready for more Big Hero 6?