Divided Mind (short series)

Divided Mind would be a 2030 animated comedy web series created by Nyla Innuksuk, and produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, for Disney+. Based on the 2029 film Divided, the series would star Anna Lambe, reprising her role as Princess Jessica and her alternative personalities. The series would center on the personalities of Jessica and their mishaps while in their inner world.
Development on a series of shorts based on Divided would be announced during the 2029 D23 Expo. Aside from creating the series, Innuksuk would return as director and writer from the film, while she, Byron Howard, Jennifer Lee, and Meg LeFauve would return from the film as executive producers, and Osnat Shurer would produce the series. Kris Bowers would also return to compose the series' score.
Divided Mind would premiere on Disney+ in November 30, 2030, and would met a generally positive critical reception, particularly for its voice acting, animation, score, humor. and writing. The series would also attain a viewership of 3.2 million viewers overall.
== Premise ==
Set between the 2029 film Divided and the TV series of the same name, Divided Mind would explore the mishaps and adventures each of Princess Jessica's personalities experiences when not in control.
== Voice cast ==
* Anna Lambe as Princess Jessica, a princess with seven other personalities, all of whom work together as a family. Thompson would also voice six of Jessica's personalities, Anna Lambe would reprise her roles from the film.
**TBA as Wonder Jessica, an incarnation of Jessica's curiousity in the form of a young Jesdica. Wright Joseph would reprise her role from the film.
== Episodes ==
# Cheer Up: During their birthday, Prankster Jessica would notice that Pessimistic Jessica is as depressed as always, to which she woulld try to make her "kinda less depressed" througth pranks, jokes, and even a song (alongside Artist Jessica).
# Stolen Art: When Artist Jessica and Wonder Jessica notice that Artist's paintings have dissapeared, the two join forces in order to discover what personality took them, and why.
# Mad Scientist: Genius Jessica tries to solve a very hard equation, but the other personas end up distracting her, much to Genius Jessica's annoyance.
# Model: Upon making a deal with Artist Jessica, Princess Jessica would be forced to serve as her model for her works of art. However, having found many of them humilliating in some form the last time she did that, she would try to hide from Artist Jessica.
# Gadgets: When Genius Jessica begins to develop gadgets for their adventures, Extreme Jessica fears that the other personas may not need her anymore, so she challenges Genius Jessica to see whether her gadgets or her are better.
== Music ==
Kris Bowers, who previously would compose the score for Divuded, would return to compose the score for the series. On returning to compose the score, Bowers would explain that "Disney felt [his] score became so synonymous with the film, that [he] was their only choice for the shorts' score".
Recurring Disney songwriter Stephen Schwartz would be brought in to write the lyrics for a song for the short's first episode, titled "Smile (Time To Celebrate)", while Bowers would compose the song's music. According to director Nyla Innuksuk, Schwartz would be hired to write the song's lyrics due to his work on the song "Topsy Turvy" for Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), which she would feel it "perfectly fits with Prankster Mary's joyful spirit" while Bowers would compose the song's music in order for it to "blend in" with the series' score.
== Reception ==
On Rotten Tomatoes, the short series would have an overall rating of 80%, with an average rating of 7.5/10, based on 20 reviews. The website's critical consensus would read, "With a dosis of swetness inside its humor and plot, Multiple Minds has enough joy, heart, and vocal quality to both please fans of the film and new audiences". On Metacritic, the series would have a weighted average score of 62 out of 100, based on 40 reviews, indicating "generally positive reviews".
== Trivia ==
*This would be Walt Disney Animation Studios' first short series based on a film.
**This would also be Walt Disney Animation Studios' first short series to be created by a Native American filmmaker, as Nyla Innuksuk is of Inuit ancestry.
**This would also be Disney's first short series to feature Native American leads.
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