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Multiple would be a 2029 animated psychological comedy adventure film directed by Jennifer Lee from a screenplay by Lee, Victoria Strouse, and Meg LeFauve, and a story by Lee, while Osnat Shurer would produce the film, with Byron Howard and Lee serving as executive producers. Produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and distribuited by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, the film would star the voices of Tessa Thompson, Oprah Winfrey, Alice Eve, Alan Tudyk, Shahadi Wright Joseph, and Aisha Tyler. Kris Bowers would compose the film's score. The film would center on a princess with multiple personalities, whom she must learn to work with in order to save her kingdom.

Development on the film would begin in early 2026, with Lee set to write and direct the film. Thompson and Stouse would join the film as its leads and co-writer, respectively, in early 2027, while Eve and Winfrey would join the cast in mid-2027. The film's animators would use several animation systems from previous Disney movies in order to potray uniquely each of the main character's personalities. The studio would form a "Psychiatrist Story Group" in order to potray Dissiociative Identity Disorder more accuretly than several other films, as well as in order to potray it a style that was "lighthearted, but not offensive".

Multiple would be released in May 22, 2029, and would become a critical and commercial success, with critics praising the film's unique take on Dissiociative Identity Disorder compared to other films, humor, direction, vocal performances (particularly Cravalho, Eve, Thompson, and Tudyk's), writing, animation, score, songs and visuals, with several critics comparing the film positively to Pixar's Inside Out (2015). Multiple would also be positively reviewed by the mental health community for its positive potrayal of Dissiociative Identity Disorder. The film would earn 987 million dollars at the worldwide box office over a budget of 130 million dollars. The film would earn an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Feature and an Academy Award for Best Original Score.

Synopsis
In a futuristic kingdom, there's a princess named Mary who was born with a very unique personality: Overly expressive, super-intelligent, wondering, thrill-seeking, prank-loving, and artistic. However, her mother has taught her that non of those are the qualities of a princess, and eventually choose to listen to her after a childhood trauma, so she has repressed all of those qualities since her childhood, and none of those has ever returned... until her teenage years, where she suddenly wakes up in strange places, like the museum, or having done things she dosen't recall, such as throwing a pie at her mother. One day, when Mary was knocked unconscious, she discovered the truth: The trauma and the long supressing of her qualities has caused Mary to develop seven separate personalities: Grumpy, Prankster, Genius, Extreme, Pessimist, Wonder, and Artist. While each personality cares for the other, they just can't work together due to their disitinct actitudes and/or actions. However, Mary must make her alternative selves work together when a threat comes to their kingdom.

Voice cast
A princess with seven alternative personalities, all whom must learn to work together in order to protect their kingdom. Director Jennifer Lee said that "her alternative selves here work as an alegory for team work and self-acceptance", and that "while in other films somebody has to overcome his or her other personality, they all have to learn to co-operate here". Eric Goldberg would serve as the supervising animator for Mary's Genius persona, which would manifest in their mind as a drawing on a blackboard, while Bruce W. Smith would serve as the supervising animator for Mary's Artist persona when she manifests to Mary as an imaginary graffiti. An incarnation of Mary's sense of wonder in the form of a little child. Bush would voice the character when inside their mind, while Thompson would voice her when she's in control of their body. Wright Joseph would also voice a young Mary. Wright Joseph would define her relationship with Mary as "the heart of the story", as well as the Wonder persoan being "the heart of the system".
 * Tessa Thompson as Mary:
 * Shahadi Wright Joseph as Mary's Wonder persona:
 * Alice Eve as Alexandra, a conqueror who was forced by her father into becoming one.
 * Oprah Winfrey as Martha, the queen of a futuristic kingdom and Mary's mother, who forced her daughter to supress her qualities.
 * Alan Tudyk as David, a conqueror who forced his daughter into becoming one, secretly plotting to use her as a means for gaining more kingdoms. Tudyk would say that his perfornance "draws inspiration from both Mother Gothel and Professor Ratigan, with a little bit of Sykes in there too".
 * Aisha Tyler as Dr. Mind, a psychiatrist ​​​​​whose holographic projections are secretly acquired by Mary in order to deal with her split personalities.

Additionally, Chris Sanders would provide the vocal effects for Fluffy, Mary's pet dog. Producer Osnat Shurer would provide the voice of the head of the Princess Summer Camp. Jim Cummings would voice Alexandra and David's lead soldier, while John Kassir would voice David's ship's computer system. Corey Burton would voice the captain of the soldiers at Mary's kingdom. Director Jennifer Lee, Grey DeLisle, Cree Summer, Tress MacNeille, and Jessica DiCcico would voice the girls at the Princess Summer Camp. Jeff Bennet would make a voice cameo as a delivery boy. Tom Kenny would voice one of Alecandra and David's soldiers.

Casting and recording
In December 2026, it would be reported that Tessa Thompson would be in talks to voice Mary, a princess with seven alternative personalities, in the film as its leads. Thompson would be confirmed to have joined the project the following month, with Shahadi Wright Joseph being set to voice her youngest personality. In July 2027, it would be reported that Alice Eve and Oprah Winfrey have joined the film's voice cast as an aspiring conqueror named Alexandra and Mary's mother, Martha, respectively. In December 2027, it would be reported that recurring Disney voice actor Alan Tudyk had joined the cast as the film's main antagonist.

Aside from Thompson and Wright Joseph, none of the voice cast would record their lines together. According to director Jennifer Lee, Thompson and Wright Joseph would record their lines together because "their characters' relationship is so important, that they have to record their lines together in order to get their dynamic right". Thompson would ocassionally record separately her lines for each personality for scenes in which they all talk at the same time. Thompson would add-lib several of her lines when voicing Mary's Prankster persona.

Animation
Two different animation teams would be made for Multiple: one that works on scenes set on the real world and one working on scenes at Mary's inner world. Director Jennifer Lee would explain that the different teams would be made in order to catch the "different feels" of each scenario. Lee would describe the work of comic book artist and Disney Legend Jack Kirby as "a big influence" on the design of Mary's inner world The animators would create a new animation software named Group in order for the different animation styles to be used for a same scene.

Different character models would be made for each of Mary's personas when they are in their inner world, with producer Osnat Shurer explaining that Disney "wanted to take advantage of the media of animation and make sure the personas really incarnate visually the aspect of Mary that they are meant to represent" while in their mind. Animation supervisor Jennifer Hagen would describe both Te-Ka from Moana (2016) and Hades from Hercules (1997) as "big influences" on Mary's Angry persona's design.

Mary's Genius persona would be designed as a hand-drawn animated drawing on a blackboard, which Hagen would explain would be done in order to "further give the character this all-knowing feeling and be funny at the same time". Eric Goldberg, who is known for serving as the supervising animator for The Genie in Aladdin (1992), would serve as Mary's Genius persona's supervising animator. Goldberg would describe his experience in the film as "no different" from Moana, in which he had to similarly serve as the supervising animator for that film's sole hand-drawn character, Mini Maui.

A new animation software, named Transition, would be created in order to animate scenes in which Mary changes from one persona to another. Lee would explain that, based on declarations from the Psychiatric Story Group that a person's body has slight changes according to which persona is in control, the animators would create the Transition software in order for Mary's body to "change slightly, but at the same time noticeably" when another of her personas takes control.

Music
Kris Bowers would compose the film's score. Bowers would create a score that "didn't focused a lot on the psychological concept, but more on the heart and fun in the story. And with little psychological stuff because it still plays a role in the movie"., and that "it would have a very philosophical and tragic feel to it". Bowers would describe Mary and her alters' theme as "super dynamic", as he has to change it in order to represent each personality "yet still keeping a same vibe in order to make clear that they are part of the same being". Bowers would compose a "sad and repressed" theme for Alexandra, an "strict" theme for Martha, and a "dangerous and power-hungry-feeling theme" for David".

Bowers would also produce and curate a soundtrack featuring songs for the film, which would be performefd by several artists including Tiw Savage, Mr Eazi, Beyoncé, Andy Grammer, Nial Horan, Patrick Basca, and X Ambassadors. Bowers would compare the film's soundtrack to the soundtrack for Sony Pictures Animation's Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018), in the sense that "it has songs that work perfectly well as pure pop songs to listen in the radio, but at the same time fit perfectly with the film's story".

Disney would also produce and release Multiple Sounds, a curated soundtrack featuring covers of 9 pop culture songs performed by artists such as Kesha and SZA. According to Bowers, the soundtrack would be created due to "a desire of Disney to find ways to promote the film througth its concept. And when the studio found pop culture songs that matched the main characters here, they choose to create a soundtrack with songs like those being featured".

Reception
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film would have an approval rating of 89%, with an average rating of 8/10, based on 227 reviews. The website's critical consensus would read, "Thanks to a light-hearted tone and a great story about self-acceptance and teamwork, Disney's Multiple manages to tackle the theme of split personalities in a stye that distinguish itself from other movies thanks to its wonderful voice acting, awesome visuals, charm, and timeless appeal". On Metacritic, the film would have a weighted rating of 79 ot of 100, based on 44 reviews, indicating "generally positive reviews".

Animated series
An animated television series set after the events of the film, also titled Multiple, would be produced by Disney Television Animation, and created by Tangled: The Series (2017) creators Chris Sonnenburg & Shane Prigmore. Thompson, Wright Joseph, Winfrey, and Eve would reprise their roles from the film, while Kris Bowers would return to compose the score. The series would center on the individual lives of Mary and her other personalities, and how those lives affect the other personalities and their relationships. According to Angones, the series would be created because he and Youngberg would feel that, while the film explored well the friendship between Mary's personas, it mostly told "Mary's story", while a TV show would allow the other personalities to be further explored, and to tell stories from each persona's point of view.

Shorts
A series of shorts, titled Multiple Minds, would be released in late 2032 on Disney+. Set between the film and the animated series, the shorts would show the mishaps of Mary's personas while inside their inner world. Jennifer Lee would return as writer and director, while Thompson and Wright Joseph would reprise their roles as Mary's personas, and Kris Bowers would return to compose the score. Lee would work closely with Angones and Youngberg in order to avoid any continuity issue between the shorts and the series.

A second short series, titled Genius Mary's Guide Througth DID, would be released througth 2031 alongside several Disney-distribuited films. The short series would consist of public service announcements in which Genius Mary explains to the audience about real-life Dissociative Identity Disorder.

Trivia

 * This would be Disney's first animated film to star a character with split personalities.
 * This would also mark the first time a Disney Princess wears glasses, with Mary mostly using contact glasses, except for when her Genius persona takes control, to which she takes off her contact glasses and instead uses regular glasses (which she would claim she would do because "hitting [herself] softly with them helps [her] think").
 * This would be the first Disney full-length film to feature the animation style used in Paperman (2012), Feast (2014), and Inner Workings (2016).
 * This would be Jennifer Lee's first non-musical film.
 * The film would mark Chris Sanders' first time acting in an animated Disney movie since the television film Leroy and Stitch (2006).

Easter eggs

 * The outfit of Mary' Prankster persona inside Mary's mind would be very similar to Clopin's outfit in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), during the "Topsy Turvy" sequence, while her crown would resemble Quasimodo's "King of Fools" crown from the same film.
 * Additionally, the hat that Mary's Extreme persona would wear would strongly resemble the one used by Clopin througth The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
 * While proving herself to be a manfestation of Mary's represed intelligence by talking about crabs, her Genius persona would make a drawing of Sebastian from The Little Mermaid (1989).
 * The toys that Mary's Wonder persona would hold througth the film would be stuffed toy versions of Terk from Tarzan (1999) and Sprig from Disney's animated series Amphibia (2019).
 * At one point in the film, a young Mary would be seen reading a book about human biology, with the book's cover beng the poster for the Disney short Inner Workings (2016).
 * During the same scene, books with the names Basil of Baker Street and John Henry would be see at the floor. Basil of Baker Street was the inspiration for Disney's The Great Mouse Detective, while the real-life story of John Henry was adapted by Disney as a short in 2000.
 * At one point on the film, Mary's Artist persona would play "Whoop-de-Dooper" from Disneytoon Studios' The Tigger Movie (2000), in an imaginary piano, in order to cheer up the Wonder persona.
 * The Yo-Yo Flamingo from Fantasia 2000 would make a brief cameo when the Wonder Mary asks what it is, to which the original Mary would tell her that is "a weird flamingo".
 * The time machines from Meet the Robinsons (2006) would be briefly seen in the background a one point.
 * After her first black-out, Mary would find out that "she" (or rather, her Artist persona) created a statue, which would strongly resemble the statue Giselle made about her dream prince in Enchanted (2007).
 * Near the start of the film, Fluffy would be seen chewing a "Mr. Carrot" toy from Bolt (2008)
 * When Mary starts to panic about her blackouts, B.E.N from Treasure Planet (2002) would appear briefly in the background.
 * When Mary enters to her mind in order to supress her other personas, the Artist persona would be seen puttinng in her wall an imaginary potrait of Jim Hawkins and John Silver from Treasure Planet (2002), while it would be shown that she made imaginary potraits of several Disney characters such as Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, Tod and Copper from The Fox and the Hound (1981), Miss Bianca from The Rescuers (1977) and The Rescuers Down Under (1990), and Robin Hood and Little John from Robin Hood (1973).
 * Additionally, the Artist persona would be singing the song "I'm Still Here" from Treasure Planet.
 * When Mary finds a gun with multiple capabalities, her Extreme persona would claim that she knows what to do with it, to which she would tell the other personalities: "Ladies, let's get dangerous". This would be a reference to the title character of Disney's animated series Darkwing Duck (1991), whose catchphrase is "Let's get dangerous".
 * A "Hidden Mickey" would be seen in Mary's door at pne point in the film.