Hello Kitty, recently revealed to be a human girl rather than a feline, is coming to the big screen.
Fresh on the heels of the Monopoly movie announcement, the Japanese Hello Kitty brand is getting the adaptation treatment.
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According to Deadline, Japanese lifestyle company Sanrio is producing a feature film based on the main character, and the movie will see a global release in 2019.
Now, let the wild speculation begin. If Hello Kitty had been a cat, of course we might imagine some magical fairyland inhabited by anthropomorphic animals.
But since the revelation that Hello Kitty is a girl, there are all sorts of (much more sinister) implications about how she obtained her feline identity (and why she has a pet cat of her own).
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Is she hiding from the law? Is she under a magic spell? Is she wearing a mask carved from an actual cat? All of these scenarios would make for a damn good movie (but in reality, it’ll probably be a lot more straight-forward and kid-friendly).
Now, this is the place where we’d make some kind of sassy joke like, “What’s next, a live-action My Little Pony movie?” But it turns out that such a movie is already in the works. So… we’ve got nothing.