CrossMore (Media franchise)

***CrossMore*** (or Disney's CrossMore as part of advertising) is a media franchise and crossover mixed-media series franchise by Hollowfox Entertainment, Avex Pictures and The Walt Disney Company. The concept is created by Aaron Montalvo.

The series is a crossover of well known Disney franchises by fandom and pop culture. Developed in 2016, with the project reinvented in 2018, it has announced three projects, a cartoon series and two anime series starting in 2019. However, unlike most well-known franchises, it is reinvented as an adult-oriented series with the first two being a time-skip series with older versions of the show's characters, and later expanded into spin-offs and sister shows for the first one, thus creating the CrossMore Universe sub-series.

The first animated series, **CrossMore*: The Series*, (co-developed by Montalvo, Edward Kitsis & Adam Horowitz) is a crossover between Daron Nefcy's *Star vs. the Forces of Evil*, Alex Hirsch's *Gravity Falls* and Jed Elinoff & Scott Thomas's *Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja*. The second animated series, **CrossMore*: The Animation*, is an anime crossover series of the former two with later properties to have crossed over with the characters. And Finally, the third animated series, **CrossMore* Royale*, is a modern-day styled anime crossover series with Disney Animation feature films such as *Tangled, Frozen* a**nd***Moana*.

Later on, spin-offs from the first animated series are the fourth (*CrossMore B.A.*) and the fifth (*Royal Painmakers*, based on Elena of Avalor and Sofia the FIrst) and a sister series from Marvel (*Marvel's Avengers: Hero Morphs*)

## Series

### Cartoon Series

#### CrossMore: The Series

CrossMore: The Series is an adult animated science fantasy action crossover television series produced by Hollowfox Television Production and Disney Television Animation and developed by Aaron Montalvo, Edward Kitsis & Adam Horowitz *(Tron: Legacy, Once Upon a Time)* as a crossover between *Star vs. the Forces of Evil, Gravity Falls and Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja*, with the original creators being slightly involved.

Two spin-offs from CrossMore: The Series is in development, with one focusing on Elena and Sofia's roles as queen and protector, while another spin-off focusing on a "B team" formed by Eda and Janna.

##### CrossMore B.A.

A B-team considered of people with attitude will either complement or compete with the main team in order to either make a difference in the cleaved world or just fight bad guys for the sake of being "badasses" or for the sake of "getting more screentime" than in the parent series.

It is developed by Montalvo, Jed Elinoff, and Scott Thomas with Nancy Cartwright (Bart Simpson's VA) as executive producer.

##### Royal Painmakers

With the possible spin-offs in mind and after the release of the first telefilm based on the show, it has been confirmed that a spin-off centered on Elena and Sofia from the Ever Realm kingdoms is in development. Like its other spin-off, Montalvo, Kitsis, Horowitz and Stephen Sandoval are the executive producers. Original creator Craig Gerber is set as a creative consultant and Ritsuko Notani returns as the series' character design supervisor.

### Anime Series

#### CrossMore: The Animation

CrossMore: The Animation is an anime crossover television series produced by Hollowfox Entertainment Japan, Walt Disney Japan, Dentsu and Avex Pictures with animation by MAPPA. It is a crossover series between Star vs. The Forces of Evil and Gravity Falls with other properties to have brief crossovers later on.

The anime is directed by Makoto Fuchigami and written by Hideki Sonoda and Kazushige Nojima (from a story by Aaron Montalvo, Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely, and Edward Kitsis & Adam Horowitz), with character designs by Noizi Ito adapted by Mai Toda and Naoyuki Onda with music by Ludwig Goransson, Matthew Margeson and Takatsugu Wakabayashi.

#### CrossMore Royale

is an anime crossover television series produced by Hollowfox Entertainment Japan, Walt Disney Japan, Dentsu, and Avex Pictures with animation by OLM, The Answer Studio, and Wit Studio. It is a crossover series between Star vs. The Forces of Evil and Gravity Falls with other properties to have brief crossovers later on.

The anime is directed by Naohito Takahashi and written by Shogo Muto and Yuko Kakihara (from a story by Aaron Montalvo, Edward Kitsis, Adam Horowitz, and Jared Bush, with supervision by Kazushige Nojima), with character designs by John Joseco adapted by Chizuru Kobayashi with music by Alan Silvestri and Matthew Margeson.

#### CrossMore: Mirrorverse Chronicles

A separate anime series based on the mobile game Disney Mirrorverse is in development at Wit Studio and AkaKen in partnership with Walt Disney Japan. Kyoji Asano will be directing the series alonsgside adapting character designs from Reiji Miyajima. Atsuhiro Tomioka will be the series' head writer and Aaron Montalvo will be the series' executive producer and development supervisor.

### Sister Series

#### Marvel's Avengers: Hero Morphs

Avengers: Hero Morphs is an anime-styled/Tokusatsu-inspired superhero series produced by Marvel TV Studios, Hollowfox Television Animation and Disney Television Animation. While being a Marvel-produced series, it's a sister series to CrossMore: The Series and CrossMore: Royale as it is on the same universe.

### Possible CrossMore installments

Montalvo states that he might do future CrossMore incarnations of characters from Pixar or Disney ride adaptations such as Haunted Mansion, Pirates of the Caribbean, and/or Jungle Cruise. He was also open for a Tom Lucitor-centric spin-off set in the same universe as CrossMore: The Series, which ended up being CrossMore B.A.

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## Other Media

### Crossovers

#### Humanoidverse/CrossMore Crossover Events

##### The StarSpark Dimensional Crisis

During the development of CrossMore, a crossover between the Humanoidverse and CrossMore is planned by making a new arc of special events animated by Trigger and Titmouse.

The first of the Humanoidverse/CrossMore project is a crossover between Equestria Campus Supremacy and Star vs. the Forces of Evil (CrossMore continuity) featuring Deadpool and Squirrel Girl. It is written by Aaron Montalvo, Dan Sterling, Erica Rivinoja, Kevin Burke & Chris "Doc" Wyatt, Tyler Chen and Judah Miller and directed by Allison Craig and Yoshihiro Miyajima. Shaun Cashman and Atsushi Nishigori will be supervising directors.

The special is aired on Chromix (on Atomix Central) on May 2020.

##### Blythe X, Pines Y, Ninja Z: The Dimensional Caper

A sequel to The StarSpark Dimensional Crisis and second installment of the Humanoidverse/CrossMore project, as a crossover between Gravity Falls, Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja and Littlest Pet Shop: Blythe X, has been announced in September with Trigger and Titmouse animating the special event.

It will be directed by Shaun Cashman and Yoshihiro Miyajima and written by Rachel Vine, Bill Oakley, Josh Weinstein, Kevin Burke, Chris Wyatt and Shannon Eric Denton. Voltron: Legendary Defender and The Legend of Korra producer Ki-Hyun Ryu is set as directorial supervisor.

The special will air on Chromix (on Montalvo Xtreme) in December 2020.

##### Transforming Avengers

Alongside BXPYNZ, a crossover between Transformers: CrossAnthrophy and Avengers: Hero Morphs is in development as an anime special event animated by Production I.G. and Hollowfox Japan's animation studio, AkaKen. The event will be inspired loosely on the New Avengers/Transformers crossover limited comic book series and most mecha anime.

The special will be directed by Yoshiki Yamakawa and Michael Chang from a story by Aaron Montalvo and Christopher Yost, adapted by Yost, Eric Pearson, Jared Bush and Brandon Easton. It features character designs by Haruyuki Morisawa adapted for animation by Takumo Norita and Hirotaka Kato and mechanic designs by Akira Amemiya from Studio Trigger.

In Early 2020, after the announcement of Power Rangers being involved in the crossover (due to their history with both Disney and Hasbro), Amemiya will join alongside Bandai's PLEX costume design team as well as comic book artist Dan Mora and Super Sentai's lead designer K-SuKe to assist with the megazord and ranger suit designs, as well as Toei's Naohiro Shintani joining alongside Norita and Kato.

The event will start with the first hour produced under eOne and followed by the second hour produced under Disney starting in August 27, 2021

### Movies

After the completion of the merger is done, 20th Century Studios, under license from new owner Disney, is open to develop a CrossMore animated film in the future at 20th Century Animation in co-operation with Hollowfox Toonimation Workshop and Disney Animation. Reason the creator chose Fox is because Disney wouldn't bother to revive Touchstone for Disney-branded films for adults.

In June 2020, CrossMore movies are "announced to be in development" with one or two as telefilms, straight-to-streaming films or direct-to-video and another two or three as possible theatrical feature films. Kitsis and Horowitz will produce films alongside Montalvo.

### Toyline

Hasbro is named as the master toy and merchandise partner for the CrossMore franchise, marking it the sixth Disney franchise to get toys from Hasbro next to Marvel, Star Wars, Disney Princess, Frozen, and Descendants, and the second Hollowfox-partnered toyline next to Harmony Unleashed, as well as the second adult-oriented toy partnership since Marvel's toy manufacturing of Deadpool.

### Video Games

Video Games are in talks for the franchise by Bandai Namco Entertainment, Arc System Works, and Square Enix, the latter which it will develop a Kingdom Hearts spin-off based on the franchise. Additionally, a new beat-em-up game from WayForward and Inti Creates is also in development, as well as a sports arcade game developed by A+ Games and WayForward.

#### CrossMore Universe Games

There will be games based on the CrossMore Universe, especially CrossMore: The Series, with an upcoming fighting game, an action game and a sports arcade game. They're all published by Bandai Namco Entertainment in association with Disney and Montalvo's Midoringo Enterprises.

#### CrossMore Wonderworld: Kingdom Hearts Alternative

The game will be developed by both Square-Enix and PlatinumGames Inc. with Kenji Saito and Tai Yasue as director and Tetsuya Nomura as character designer and chief supervisor. Montalvo will be involved in the story alongside Edward Kitsis, Adam Horowitz, Byron Howard, Yasuyuki Muto, Shiro Maekawa, and Kazushige Nojima. It has been announced in 2020 without a release date, but with a release for Steam, Stadia, Luna, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, XBOX One, XBOX Series X and S, and Nintendo Switch.

#### CrossMore vs. Street Fighter

A separate CrossMore crossover fighting game developed and published by Capcom with additional development from Eighting is announced and is set to be in development for a 2022 release. The crossover game is the first crossover fighting game with properties owned by Disney as well as the first installment of the Vs. Capcom series since Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite.