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Winnie the Pooh Must Free Willy is another upcoming Winnie the Pooh crossover film planned to be made by Yakko Warner and Shadow101815. As of now, it is unknown when the film will be made, although it is expected to be a part of a quadruple feature with its sequels Winnie the Pooh Must Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home, Winnie the Pooh Must Free Willy 3: The Rescue, and Winnie the Pooh Must Free Willy: Escape from Pirate's Cove.
Plot[]
The film begins with a pod of orcas swimming near the coastline of the Pacific Northwest. The pod is tracked down by a large group of whalers, and one of them, Willy, is snared in their nets and taken away to a local amusement park.
Sometime later in Astoria, Oregon, Jesse, a troublesome 12-year-old boy who has been on the streets since he was abandoned by his mother six years before, gets caught by the police for stealing food and vandalizing a theme park. Jesse's social worker Dwight earns him a reprieve by finding him a foster home and having him clean up the graffiti at the theme park. His foster parents are the kind and supportive Annie and Glen Greenwood, but Jesse is initially unruly, hostile, and distrustful to Annie and Glen.
While working at the park, Jesse encounters Willy, the orca that was caught earlier. Willy is regarded as surly and uncooperative by the park staff, including his trainer Rae Lindley, but he and Jesse strike up a bond. He also becomes friendly with Haida native Randolph Johnson, Willy's keeper. Jesse is able to get Willy to perform tricks and once his probation is finished, he is given a permanent job at the marina. Jesse also slowly warms to the Greenwoods and begins to settle into his new life.
The owner of the amusement park, Dial, sees the talent Jesse and Willy have together and makes plans to host "The Willy Show" in hopes of finally making money from Willy, who has thus far been a costly venture for him. On the day of the first performance, Willy is antagonized by the children banging constantly on his underwater observation area and refuses to perform. Willy smashes against the tank, causing damage to it. Jesse storms off in tears and plans to run away. Later, while at the tank, Jesse notices Willy's family calling to him and Dial's assistant Wade and other men sneaking into the underwater observation area. They damage the tank enough that the water will gradually leak out in an effort to kill Willy and claim his $1,000,000 insurance policy.
Jesse, Randolph, and Rae hatch a plan to release Willy. They use equipment at the park to load Willy onto a trailer, and Jesse and Randolph steal Glen's truck to tow Willy to a marina. They try to stick to back roads to keep from being spotted with a gigantic orca, and eventually get stuck in the mud. Wade meanwhile notifies Dial that Willy is missing, and begin a search to find Willy.
Unable to move the trailer himself, Jesse calls Glen and Annie using a CB radio in Glen's truck. Annie and Glen show up and help free the truck, and continue on to the marina to release Willy. Dial knows where they are headed, and when they show up, he, Wade, and his henchmen are blocking the gate into the marina. Glen charges at them full speed in the truck, forcing the henchmen to scatter as the truck plows through the gate to the marina. Glen quickly turns the truck around and backs Willy into the water, flooding his truck in the process.
Willy is finally released into the water, but Dial and his goons attempt to stop them. During the struggle, Jesse gets Willy to swim away while the whaling ships close in with their nets. Jesse runs towards the seawall, calling for Willy to follow him, which steers him away from the boats. Jesse goes to the edge of the rocks where Willy swims up to him and tells Willy that if he makes the jump (it will be the highest jump Willy has ever attempted), he'll be free. Jesse says a tearful goodbye, but pulls himself together and goes back to the top of the rocks. He says a prayer that Randolph taught him from a story from his tribe and throws his arm in the air, giving Willy the signal to jump. To the amazement of everyone, Willy makes the jump and is finally free to return to his family. Everyone cheers, Willy leaps out of the water in celebration, and Jesse happily jumps up and down, but stops when he realizes that he'll probably never see Willy again. He goes back to Glen and Annie who hug him as they look out into the sea. Willy calls out to Jesse in the distance and both say their final farewell.
The movie ends with Willy, who has found his family, and the entire pod swimming and jumping through the ocean.
Trivia[]
- Christopher Robin, Simba, Nala, Timon, Pumbaa, SpongeBob SquarePants, Patrick Star, Squidward Tentacles, Sandy Cheeks, Mr. Krabs, Pearl Krabs, Mrs. Puff, Gary the Snail, Larry the Lobster, Mermaid Man, Barnacle Boy, Grandma SquarePants, Bloom, Stella, Flora, Musa (Winx Club), Tecna (Winx Club), Layla (Winx Club), Ed, Edd, Eddy, Godzilla, Alex, Marty, Melman, Gloria, Homer Simpson, Marge Simpson, Bart Simpson, Lisa Simpson, Maggie Simpson, Grandpa Simpson, Patty and Selma Bouvier, Santa's Little Helper, Snowball II, Milhouse Van Houten, Alex Whitney, Gina Vendetti, Jenny, Ronald McDonald, Sundae, Birdie, Grimace, Hamburglar, Tika, Franklin, the McNuggets, the Fry Kids, Earl Sinclair and his family, Mike and Sulley, Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, Eric Cartman, Kenny McCormick, Sora, Riku, Kairi, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, Pluto, Max Goof, Roxanne, Stacy, Bobby, PJ, Bigfoot (from A Goofy Movie), the Beret girl in the cafe (from An Extremely Goofy Movie), Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Iago, Scooby-Doo, Shaggy Rogers, Fred Jones, Daphne Blake, Velma Dinkley, Scrappy-Doo, Scooby-Dum, Crystal and Amber (from Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders), Hubie, Marina, Rocko the Rockhopper, Danny, Sawyer, Dave Felis, Renamon, Goamon, RJane, Romeo and Juliet (from Romeo & Juliet: Sealed with a Kiss), Moana Waialiki, Pua, Heihei, Maui, Wreck-It Ralph and his friends, The Super Evil Subspace Empire Squad (excluding Morgana, Undertow, Cloak and Dagger), The Trix, Jafar, Maleficent, Myotismon, The Grand Duke of Owls, Captain Hook, Shere Khan, Kaa the Snake, Scar, Shenzi, Banzai, Ed, Hades, Ursula, King Ghidorah, Brer Fox, Brer Bear, Drake, King Candy/Turbo, Dr. Facilier, Sheldon J. Plankton, Man Ray, the Dirty Bubble, and Pete will be guest stars in this film.
- Melody, Morgana, Undertow, and Cloak and Dagger will be absent in this film, due to their guest appearances in Thomas' Adventures of Free Willy.
- The Super Evil Subspace Empire Squad (excluding Morgana, Undertow, Cloak and Dagger), The Trix, Jafar, Maleficent, Myotismon, The Grand Duke of Owls, Captain Hook, Shere Khan, Kaa the Snake, Scar, Shenzi, Banzai, Ed, Hades, Ursula, King Ghidorah, Brer Fox, Brer Bear, Drake, King Candy/Turbo, Dr. Facilier, Sheldon J. Plankton, Man Ray, the Dirty Bubble, and Pete will work for Dial.
- Jesse is revealed to be a long-lost cousin of Christopher Robin.
- This will be the first Winnie the Pooh crossover film to guest star characters from Wreck-It Ralph and Moana.
- SpongeBob SquarePants, Romeo & Juliet: Sealed with a Kiss, The Pebble and the Penguin, Moana, and Free Willy are all ocean-themed.
- This will be an NTSC film with NTSC bits from Winnie the Pooh films, the Garfield films, The Little Mermaid films, The Secret Lifge of Pets 1 and 2, the Jurassic Park films, The Lion King films, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, the Winx Club films, Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy's Big Picture Show, the Godzilla films, the Madagascar films, The Simpsons Movie, the Mickey Mouse films, the Looney Tunes films, Aladdin, The Return of Jafar, the Scooby-Doo films, The Pebble and the Penguin, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Land Before Time 1 and 4, Sleeping Beauty, The Jungle Book 1 and 2, Rock-a-Doodle, Peter Pan, Return to Neverland, Hercules, and Song of the South.
- The film will be dedicated to the memories of Keiko, the orca, who played Willy in the real film and died from pneumonia on December 12, 2003, Michael Jackson, the international pop star, who wrote and performed the song Will You Be There, and died from cardiac arrest on June 25, 2009, August Schellenberg, who played Randolph in the real film and died from lung cancer on August 15, 2013, and Basil Poledouris, who composed the music score for the real film and died also from cancer on November 8, 2006.
- Due to the real film's mild language, this film will be censored. For instance, the only changes to the film are that the word "crap" and the profane uses of the word "screw" will be replaced with the words "crud" and "darn", the uses of God's name in vein will be replaced with the word "gosh", the scene where Jesse cleans off the graffiti that says the P word will be replaced with the footage of some of the heroes cleaning up followed by the bit where Pooh says "Shh. Do you hear something?" (taken from the Winnie the Pooh film from 2011), and the brief cigarette smoking bits will be censored in order to make the film more G-rated.
- TtarkosaurusRex2 originally planned to make this film, but he retired from making anymore crossovers, Yakko Warner Warner would then take over this film before it was passed to Yru17, but he also retired from re-editing anymore crossovers, so the project was given back to Yakko Warner with Shadow101815 (who also plans to make Harry Potter crossovers with the Free Willy franchise) as his co-director.
- 101 Dalmatians, The Land Before Time, Penguins of Madagascar, Aladdin, We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story, and Free Willy were all released on Blu-ray in 2015, the same year the Jurassic Park trilogy, How the Grinch Stole Christmas (TV special), and How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000 live-action film) were re-released on Blu-ray.
- The storyline continues in Winnie the Pooh Must Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home, Winnie the Pooh Must Free Willy (TV series), Winnie the Pooh Must Free Willy 3: The Rescue, and Winnie the Pooh Must Free Willy 4: Escape from Pirate's Cove.
- This film takes place after the events of Winnie the Pooh and The Return of Jafar, Pooh and Ash's Adventures of The Pebble and the Penguin, Winnie the Pooh Meets Moana, Pooh and Ash's Adventures of An Extremely Goofy Movie, Pooh's Adventures of Wreck-It Ralph, and Pooh's Adventures of Ralph Breaks the Internet.