Harry, Ron, and Hermione Must Free Willy
Harry, Ron, and Hermione Must Free Willy is another upcoming Harry Potter crossover film created and developed by Shadow101815. It will appear on Odysee as a part of a quadruple feature with its sequels Harry, Ron, and Hermione Must Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home, Harry, Ron, and Hermione Must Free Willy 3: The Rescue, and Harry, Ron, and Hermione Must Free Willy: Escape from Pirate's Cove in the future.
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
- Dylan (Shadow101815), The Latest Buzz Gang (Rebecca, Noah, Wilder, Michael, Amanda), Dobby, Hagrid, Princess Anna, Queen Elsa, Kristoff, Sven, Aladar, Neera, Plio, Yar, Zini, Suri, Baylene, Eema, Url, Princess Odette, Prince Derek, Robin Hood, Little John, Fievel Mousekewitz, Tiger, Tony Toponi, Tanya Mousekwitz, Yasha Mousekewitz, Papa Mousekewitz, Mama Mousekewitz, Lumiere, Cogsworth, Mrs. Potts, Chip, Jaq and Gus, The Goonies (Mikey Walsh, Brand Walsh, Mouth Devereaux, Data Wang, Chunk Cohen, Andy Carmichael, Stef Steinbrenner, and Sloth Fratelli), Fu Dog, Rutt and Tuke, Toaster, Blanky, Lampy, Radio, Kirby, Draco Malfoy, The Dursley Family (Vernon, Petunia, Dudley), Lord Voldemort, Yzma, Judge Claude Frollo, Sir Ruber, Prince John, Sir Hiss, the Sheriff of Nottingham, The Carnotaurs, Rasputin, The Evil Queen, Zuzu Moon, Lady Tremaine, Gaston, The Fratellis, Warren T. Rat, Digit, Cat R. Waul, and T. R. Chula will be guest stars in this film.
- Draco Malfoy, The Dursley Family (Vernon, Petunia, Dudley), Lord Voldemort, Yzma, Judge Claude Frollo, Sir Ruber, Prince John, Sir Hiss, the Sheriff of Nottingham, The Carnotaurs, Rasputin, The Evil Queen, Zuzu Moon, Lady Tremaine, Gaston, The Fratellis, Warren T. Rat, Digit, Cat R. Waul, and T. R. Chula will work for Dial.
- This is the first Harry Potter crossover film to guest star characters from The Goonies. In fact, this concept was originally set to be used for The Land Before Time/Free Willy sequels (back when the now-retired Yru17 originally planned the Littlefoot Must Free Willy saga) until it was even dropped when Daniel Esposito took over the saga, due to the fact that the user does not plan on guest starring many live-action characters in his projects (and characters from The Goonies were some of them at the time of the announcement).
- The only reason why Princess Odette and Prince Derek are guest starring in this film is because Jean-Bob, Speed, Puffin, and Rothbart are the only characters from The Swan Princess to guest star in Littlefoot Must Free Willy.
- Like Winnie the Pooh Must Free Willy, this 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.
- Unlike Winnie the Pooh Must Free Willy, this film will retain the real film's mild language and content in order to retain a PG rating, due to all of the Harry Potter films being rated PG in Canada (with half of them being rated PG-13 in the US).
- The Harry Potter films, Quest for Camelot, Arrow, Cats Don't Dance, The Goonies, and Free Willy were all made by Warner Bros.
- Ironically, both The Goonies and Free Willy also took place in Astoria, Oregon.
- Free Willy was released in theaters in 1993, the same year Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs made its final theatrical reissue.
- Free Willy was re-released on DVD for its 10th anniversary in 2003, the same year both The Lion King and The Brave Little Toaster first released on DVD and Brother Bear was released in theaters.
- Free Willy was also released on Blu-ray for the fist time ever in 2015, the same year the Disney sequel short Frozen Fever was released in theaters with the live-action remake of Cinderella and The Land Before Time XIV: Journey of the Brave was finished.
- The storyline continues in Harry, Ron and Hermione Must Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home, Harry, Ron and Hermione Must Free Willy (TV series), Harry, Ron and Hermione Must Free Willy 3: The Rescue, and Harry, Ron and Hermione Must Free Willy: Escape from Pirate's Cove.
- This film takes place after the events of Winnie the Pooh and The Return of Jafar and Harry, Ron, and Hermione's Adventures of The Goonies.
- Harry, Ron, and Hermione's Adventures films
- Action/Adventure films
- Travel Films
- Spin-off films
- Non-Disney crossovers
- Ocean Adventure Films
- Shadow101815
- Films dedicated to Michael Jackson
- Films dedicated to Basil Poledouris
- Films dedicated to August Schellenberg
- Underwater films
- Films dedicated to Keiko
- Adventure Films