When Disney acquired Marvel Entertainment in 2009 for a whopping $4 billion, enthusiasts immediately began speculating about the option of Marvel Studios partnering with Pixar for an animated film.
That hasn’t happened, and the closest we’ve come to a crossover like that is Disney Animation’s very loose adaptation of Big Hero 6. However, with Marvel Animation releasing various TV shows on Disney+, we’ve been hearing rumblings about a big screen animated movie from Marvel Studios for a while now.
Today, scooper Daniel Richtman brings word that Power Pack and Kid Kaiju are among the characters Kevin Feige is looking to put front and centre in this long-rumoured animated feature.
For those of you who aren’t aware, Power Pack is a superhero team composed of four siblings: Alex, Julie, Jack, and Katie Power. The children gain superpowers after encountering an alien named Whitey, a Kymellian scientist who transferred one of his four superpowers to each of the kids so they could save their planet from the alien conquerors known as the Zn’rx.
Franklin Richards has also joined them on their adventures, so it’s not outside the realm of possibility that he appears in the movie – if it happens – after his rumoured introduction in The Fantastic Four: First Steps.
As for Kid Kaiju, Kei Kawade is a huge monster fan whose family circle lived in Atlanta, Georgia. When the Terrigen Cloud swept through the city, it activated Kei’s dormant inhuman genes, who then entered a cocoon and experienced Terrigenesis, turning him into a Nuhuman with the ability to summon the monsters he designed.
The young hero is depicted in action alongside a team of monsters, with Fin Fang Foom, Zzutak, Green Thing, and Gorgilla among those he has summoned to his side over the years.
Big Hero 6 manufacturer Roy Conli was recently asked where things stood with a imaginable sequel and said:
“You know, this year we’re celebrating 10 years of Big Hero 6. A wonderful movie for me, Don Hall and Chris Williams, who put it together. It’s attractive because it’s Don’s, if he needs to make a sequel to this, it was The Concept and Don’s concept. I’m still secretly encouraging him to do it, but we’ll see.
As always, keep checking back here for further updates as we have them.