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Multiple would be a 2029 animated psychological comedy adventure film directed by Carlos Saldanha and co-directed by Meg LeFauve from a screenplay by Saldanha, Victoria Strouse, and LeFauve, and a story by Saldanha, while Lisa Marie Stetler and Lori Forte would produce the film, with Chris Wedge, Saldanha, and LeFauve serving as executive producers. Produced by Blue Sky Studios and distribuited by 20th Cetury Studios, the film would star the voices of Raven-Symoné, Oprah Winfrey, Alice Eve, Gary Oldman, 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 Saldanha set to write and direct the film. Simoné 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 create several new animation systems 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 Simoné, Wright Joseph, Winfrey, and Oldman'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 Jessica who was born with a very unique personality: 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 Jessica was knocked unconscious, she discovered the truth: The trauma and the long supressing of her qualities has caused Jessica to develop seven separate personalities: Cynical, 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, Jessica 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 Jessica'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 Jessica's Artist persona when she manifests to Jessica as an imaginary graffiti. An incarnation of Jessica's curiousity in the form of a little child. Wright Joseph 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 Jessica. Wright Joseph would define her relationship with Jessica as "the heart of the story", as well as the Wonder persona being "the heart of the system".
 * Raven-Simoné as Jessica:
 * Shahadi Wright Joseph as Wonder Jessica:
 * 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 Jessica's mother, who wants her daughter to supress her unique qualities.
 * Gary Oldman as David, a conqueror who forced his daughter into becoming one, secretly plotting to use her as a means for gaining more kingdoms. Oldman 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 Jessica in order to deal with her split personalities.

Additionally, Chris Sanders would provide the vocal effects for Fluffy, Jessica's pet dog. Producer Lisa Marie Stetler would provide the voice of the head of the Princess Summer Camp. Alan Tudyk would voice Alexandra and David's captain, while John Kassir would voice David's ship's computer system. Corey Burton would voice the captain of the soldiers at Jessica's kingdom. 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 Alexandra and David's soldiers.

Development
In January 2026, Carlos Saldanha would reveal that he is writing and directing an animated film at Blue Sky Studios "that takes a concept that Hollywood has used for years, and uses it on a way that audiences never expected, but still leaves them very impressed". In June 2026, it would be announced that the film Saldanha would be working on would be titled Multiple. It would also be announced that the film would center on a princess with seven different personalities facing a threat to her kingdom. Saldanha would state that, while "[he] was aware of how Hollywood loves to use Dissociative Identity Disorder for horror and thriller movies, [he] feels that the concept has potential for a more emotional and sincere story".

In November 1, 2026, it would be reported that Meg LeFauve has joined the film as co-writer and co-director. Producer Loru Forte would explain that "LeFauve was one of the writers for Inside Out, and [Saldanha] felt that her joining the film helps give the film and Inside Out tone to the story, which would really help it to stand from the crowd". In November 20, 2026, Saldanha would explain that "[he] wants the film to be as far from a horror movie as possible" and that "[he] wants to potray the good side of DID, and how people can live with it in real life. Its fun sides, its tragic parts, how they have to learn to work together, and, ultimately, the fact that that people with DID have somebody they can lean on".

In January 2027, Victoria Strousse would reveal that she joined the film as a co-writer alongside Saldanha and LeFauve. Strousse would say that "[she] wants the film to have a little bit of Finding Dory 's sensibility towards those with mental incapacities", while Lee would say that "Finding Dory is the exact reason [he] hired Strousse in the first place".

In order to "avoid the mistakes of past movies", Blue Sky Studios would hire several psyschiatrists and therapists to form a "Pyschiatric Story Group". The filmmakers would consult with the group on Multiple's potrayal and sensivity towards DID, with Saldanha pitching them scenes and concepts, to which the group would provide him with feedback and notes. They would also be consuted for the film's humor, which Saldanha would explain would be because "[he] dosen't want to paint DID as something to be laughed at. [he wants] the film to be lighthearted, but not offensive. This is a serious mental illness, it comes from perinful experiences, but [he] also want[s] the film to have the scenes that can make the audience laugh. So the Psychiatric Story Group was very involved with how to approach that humor". Additionally, Blue Sky Studios would hire therapist Paula McHugh, psychiatrist Garrett Marie Deckel, and psychologist and psychoanalyst Sheldon Itzkowitz to serve as co-producers on the film.

Casting and recording
In December 2026, it would be reported that Raven-Symoné would be in talks to voice Jessica, a princess with seven alternative personalities, in the film as its leads. Symoné 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 Jessica's mother, Martha, respectively. In December 2027, it would be reported that Gary Oldman had joined the cast as the film's main antagonist.

Aside from Symoné and Wright Joseph, none of the voice cast would record their lines together. According to director Jennifer Lee, Symoné 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 Jessica'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 Jessica's inner world. Director Carlos Saldanha 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 Jessica's inner world.

Different character models would be made for each of Jessica's personas when they are in their inner world, with producer Lisa Marie Stetler explaining that Blue Sky Studios "wanted to take advantage of the media of animation and make sure the personas really incarnate visually the aspect of Jessica that they are meant to represent" while in their mind. Animation supervisor Scott Carroll would describe both Te-Ka from Disney's Moana (2016) and Hades from Disney's Hercules (1997) as "big influences" on Jessica's Cynical persona's design. The animators would create a new animation software named Group in order for the different animation styles to be used for a same scene.

Jessica's Genius persona would be designed as a hand-drawn animated drawing on a blackboard, which Carroll 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 Disney's Aladdin (1992), would serve as Jessica'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. Goldberg would also be inspired by the "The Backson Song" scene, from Disney's Winnie the Pooh (2011), for the animation of Genius Jessica.

Artist Jessica would be animated creating a new animation system that combines hand-drawn a CGI animation techniques. Saldanha would feel that, since Artist Jessica "is a representation of Jessica's love for all the forms of art, including painting", it would be natural for her to "look like she came straight out of a painting", througth he would choose to create a new animation system instead of hand-drawn animation in order to evoke that feeling while at the same time "standing apart from the Genius persona".

A new animation software, named Transition, would be created in order to animate scenes in which Jessica changes from one persona to another. Saldanha 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 Jessica's body to "change slightly, but at the same time noticeably" when another of her personas takes control.

The design of Jessica's kingdom would be inspired by Tokyo, Japan, as the filmmakers would want a "100% futuristic style" for the kingdom. Star Wars and Star Trek would also serve as inspirations for the design of Jessica's kingdom. The animators would also use the animation for the "Short Circuit" short Downtown (2020) for the background in order to further convey a futuristic feeling. The animators would aim for a more photorealistic look in order to "give it a different feel than Jessica's inner world". The filmmakers would consult with inventors and mechanics in order to "create machines that felt they could exist in a few years".

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 Jessica 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, 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". Bowers and Randy Newman would also co-write an end-credits song for the film, which would be perforned by Yuna.

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, Blue Sky'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 Blue Sky Studios, and created by Carlos Saldanha. Symoné, 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 Jessica and her other personalities, and how those lives affect the other personalities and their relationships. According to Lee, the series would be created because she would feel that, while the film explored well the friendship between Mary's personas, it mostly told "Jessica'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 animated series' first and second seasons, the shorts would show the mishaps of Mary's personas while inside their inner world. Carlos Saldanha would return as writer and director, while Symoné and Wright Joseph would reprise their roles as Jessica's personas, and Kris Bowers would return to compose the score.

A second short series, titled Genius Jessica's Guide Througth DID, would be released througth 2033 alongside several Disney-distribuited films. The short series would consist of public service announcements in which Genius Jessica explains to the audience about real-life Dissociative Identity Disorder.

Sequel
In January 2034, it would be reported that a sequel to Multiple is in development, with Saldanha set to return as director and co-writer alongside Victoria Strousse and Meg LeFauve, and Lori Forte and Lisa Marie Stetler returning as producer, while Simoné, Winfrey, and Joseph would be set to reprise their roles. The plot would reportedly focus on "Jessica and her personalities going throught a kingdom-wide mystery following the emergence of a new personality".

Trivia

 * This would be Blue Sky Studios' first animated film to star a character with split personalities.
 * This would mark the first Disney Princess film to be produced by Blue Sky Studios
 * This would also mark the first time a Disney Princess wears glasses, with Jessics 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").
 * The film would be the first Blue Sky Studios film to be scored by a black composer.
 * This would be the first film produced by Blue Sky Studios to feature promenietly hand-drawn animation.
 * The film would mark the first Blue Sky Studios film to star a black character.