Kingdom Hearts 3 could feature Star Wars characters

Kingdom Hearts 3 could include Star Wars characters due to Disney purchasing the brand earlier this year, according to director Tetsuya Nomura.

The Kingdom Hearts series is famed for combining Disney and Final Fantasy characters into an RPG and Nomura said that there could even be an appearance from Star Wars favourites.

However nothing has been agreed yet and there would have to be a lot of meetings to make it happen.

"Of course it would be great if we could add those licenses as well," he told Finaland [via Kotaku]. "But there are lots of rules and restrictions by Disney, so it's quite a difficult decision but we're going to prepare some surprises for you so, just wait for the information.

"We've been talking about Star Wars itself since it became Disney's content recently.

"When I [heard] the news I was like, 'Wow! Wow!' Yeah obviously it's going to be great if we could add it, but like I said there are a lot of restrictions and rules by Disney so we don't know what's going to happen but yeah, we'll see."

The only videogame announced since Disney's acquisition of the Star Wars brand is Star Wars Battlefront, which is in development at EA's DICE studio.