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Wish Dragon

AnimationFamilyComedyFantasyRomanceAdventure

Directed by Chris Appelhans

Determined teen Din is longing to reconnect with his childhood best friend when he meets a wish-granting dragon who shows him the magic of possibilities. From TMDB

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Wish Dragon is a 2021 animation family comedy film, directed by Chris Appelhans, starring Jimmy Wong, John Cho and Constance Wu.

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  • Dondaz @dondaz.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 25, 2024

    I hit a mood, really wanted to make an edit of this bad derg. Mr Long from that funni film Wish Dragon (which I never watched).

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  • ToonHive @toonhive.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 9, 2026

    ‘Wish Dragon 2’ is reportedly in development, targeting a Summer 2027 release. • Base FX, the studio behind the original film, is moving forward with the sequel. • Sony Animation is currently not involved, with distribution still unclear. (source: www.whats-on-netflix.com/news/wish-dr...)

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  • Stale Rice @stalerice.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 15, 2024

    We have here a plush from 2021, my own adaptation of “Long” from the film “Wish Dragon!” I really liked his design, and I enjoy making dragon plushes! 🐉

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  • Concept Art World @conceptartworld.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 29, 2026

    Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) Movie Visual Development Art by Chris Appelhans Chris was director of KPop Demon Hunters and Wish Dragon #conceptart

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  • AidanStar64 🌟🐈‍⬛️🎃🧙‍♀️: 30 Years of 96's Sabrina! @aidanstar64.bsky.socialBluesky · May 14, 2026

    I've got a gut feeling that DreamWorks' involvement in Cocomelon: The Movie is just their logo being attached to it as a label if anything (ie Sony Animation with the Goosebumps films, the two Aardman films, Wish Dragon, etc).

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  • crinkling-gator.bsky.social @crinkling-gator.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 31, 2026

    I've been wanting to draw Long from Wish Dragon ever since I watched that movie a few years ago. I don't think Long is amused by what his owner wishes for, though.

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  • Vaskin's Tummy (Frenzied) @frenzieddragon.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 20, 2025

    hehe, i found Long's teapot and wished for the lovely long noodly boy to eat me and get fat~ i wonder just how big i was when he ate me if he got this big and fat~? art by @xanfire.bsky.social Frenzied belongs to me Long is from the movie 'Wish Dragon'

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  • Charles Moss - Commissions are Open @mossanimation.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 4, 2025

    Peak - Spiderverse 1 and 2, The Mitchells vs the Machines Pretty good - Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, K-Pop Demon Hunters Good - Surfs Up, Angry Birds 2, and Pirates Decent - HT2, Vivo, Wish Dragon, HT 3 and 1 Ok - HT 4, Cloudy 2 and Open Season 🤮- Emoji Movie

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  • Ryan W. Mead @rwmead.bsky.socialBluesky · May 13, 2026

    The Monk Studios, a Bangkok-based animation studio who has contributed to such films as “Wish Dragon” and “Ne Zha 2”, has picked up “Afterworld”, Matt Braly’s concept rejected by Sony Pictures. The film is not currently in active development but The Monk will seek funding at Annecy this year.

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  • Evan Richard Ferguson @evanfer.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 23, 2025

    I know it’s going to be directed by Chris Appelhans who directed Wish Dragon and you can actually see that energy of wish dragon in this movie, especially even though it has that spider verse influence

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  • HI, GAY @squishyboye.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 22, 2025

    i'll just do a "movies ive watched in full" list, i don't have enough for a top 15 WALL-E Toy Story 1,2,3 Ratatouille The first Spongebob Movie The simpsons movie Thomas and the tragic failroad Wish Dragon Puss in boots with death wolf that Kirby anime movie that has an awful name

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  • 💎👑-King Sombra-👑💎 @ickylicky407.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 1, 2026

    I forgot the name of the movie (I think it’s “The Wish Dragon” ) but this guy is cool :D

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  • Henry McConnell’s House of Horrors @ghostmoth712.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 5, 2025

    To be honest, the success of KPop Demon Hunters has me wondering if any of that film’s fanbase has seen Wish Dragon, the other film Chris Appelhans did. In my review of the former, I argued that the latter was just a warm-up for him.

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  • Tyler Cuddletail @tylercuddletail.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 28, 2025

    Wish Dragon! It's a Sony animated film on Netflix about a Chinese boy who gets a wish-granting dragon. People say it's a ripoff of Disney's Aladdin until you actually tell them that orginal Aladdin was story set in Xinjiang China so Aladdin is legit a Chinese Set story.

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  • Kenisu-of-Dragons (COMMS Open) @kenofdragons.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 21, 2025

    Favorite Netflix movies Kpop demon hunters Nimona Over the moon Motchells vs the machines Next gen Del Toro Pinocchio My little pony new generation Invader Zim movie Ultraman rising Wish Dragon Klaus Rise of TMNT Movie Green Snake Hey Arnold Jungle Movie

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  • Shake @gamermouse647.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 17, 2025

    As for Hotel Transylvania 4 going to Amazon, my guesses are due to either one of the following: -Sony and Amazon once did a cross-promotion granting the latter's users early access to the third movie in 2018 -Wish Dragon and Vivo probably didn't perform well on Netflix compared to Mitchells

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  • Jes-EEK-ca! 🖤 @moochifox.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 29, 2025

    Watching 'Wish Dragon' 🐉 with my little as we eat lunch~ I love this movie!

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  • Luke @loadsabot.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 17, 2025

    My kids watched Wish Dragon (set in modern Shanghai) on Netflix when it came out. I don't recall it as great art, but I did find it surprising for a Chinese-backed movie that the hero wishes to be a "princeling" in order to woo the daughter of a business magnate. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wish_Dr...

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  • Kavey 😁 @kavey.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 2, 2026

    Watched an animated film called Wish Dragon last night. Clichéd and predictable but kind of charming nonetheless. Loved John Cho voicing Long the dragon.

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  • ❤️s The Space Ferret @freelancewolf.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 22, 2026

    A looong time ago, I had commissioned someone (www.elisamakesart.com) to make a comic for me. It's a crossover between TMNT 2012 and Long from the Sony movie, Wish Dragon (It's on Netflix! Go watch it!). I wrote the story. She did the art, obviously.

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  • Woynich @woynich.bsky.socialBluesky · May 31, 2026

    I did see Wish with my sister, and I had straight up forgotten thats what the movie was called, thought we were talking about Wish Dragon too.

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  • Woynich @woynich.bsky.socialBluesky · May 31, 2026

    Was gonna say "You didnt like Wish Dragon? What was wrong about that?" Then looked at the posts a little harder and realized you were talking about the Disney movie about why having standards for Wish Granting is evil where the king sings about how his genes came from outer space despite not.

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  • (nsfw) Rabid Cowolf (18+) @rabidcowolf.bsky.socialBluesky · May 31, 2026

    I actually haven't seen Wish Dragon but I bet it's really good given your description of it. I meant the Disney movie "Wish" though. Again. Terrible SEO

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  • Tyler Cuddletail @tylercuddletail.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 28, 2025

    I love this because if you actually watch the movie, this is how the Wish Dragon became the Wish Dragon!

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  • Rooster Fighter Era @gregtheprecise1.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 22, 2025

    Looks like Vivo is the only Sony Pictures Animation movie this decade that isn't getting a sequel as of the time of writing (a Wish Dragon sequel also got confirmed). Don't think we need more Vivo content, seeing how there's not much to go after the first wrapped up nicely.

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  • Omegathenook 🇬🇧 (Don't spoil ForIsle for me until Oct 16th!) @omegathenook.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 4, 2025

    The parents will make their kids watch Winx Reboot when Ultraman: Rising, Nimona, KPop Demon Hunters, Klaus, Next Gen, Leo, Wolf King, Jentry Chau, Wish Dragon, Vivo, The Mitchells Vs. The Machines, Mermaid Magic and every Netflix film and show you can think of is right there 💀

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  • SaiyanMyNameE @saiyanmyname.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 30, 2025

    The Angry Birds Movie 2, The Mitchells vs. the Machines, Wish Dragon, Vivo, and Hotel Transylvania: Transformania, kpop demon hunters are all Sony Animations they released after Spiderverse but yeah just keep milking the Spider and are way more original & entertaining than Goat plays basketball.

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  • Agustin Macias @augustmacias.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 28, 2025

    At first they used Covid as reason to stream their movies straight to Netflix(Mitchells vs the Machines, Wish Dragon, and Vivo), but I just don’t know why K-Pop Demon Hunters went there instead of theaters. Maybe the head of Sony felt that the movie wasn’t going to do well theatrical?

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  • MistahGh🎃ul 👻 @mistahdood.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 22, 2025

    At the very least tho, since this is from Sony, it has the chance of coming to home video. Somehow with the exception of Wish Dragon, every recent SPA film that released on Netflix and even Prime Video so far has hit BD eventually. The moment Mitchells hit BD i just had to get it.

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  • stevenbrady.com @stevenbrady.comBluesky · May 25, 2025

    Wish Dragon, 2021 - ★★ https://letterboxd.com/steven_db_/film/wish-dragon/ #Letterboxd

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  • Jim Corpse-Again SPOOKYTOBER IV @masonvoorhees0.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 20, 2025

    Wish Dragon (2021) My second rewatch...kind of, I remember watching this after Raya and o liked it a whole lot more than that and to be honest it still holds up as a fun little kids movie, animation was bouncy and story was cute, better than Raya still.

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  • Feather Dancer @feather-dancer.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 19, 2024

    An important shoutout for Wish Dragon today. A gorgeously animated film, it follows a boy separated from his best friend by life wanting nothing more than to reconnect again. A blast start to finish and only /some/ second hand embarrassment! www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWIR...

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  • Roy The Fat Dragon @royfatdragon.furobesity.netBluesky · Sep 6, 2024

    5: I've yet to see this movie if it's not been taken off from Netflix, Wish Dragon.

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  • Duski Duskington the Deergi! 🏳️‍⚧️ @dduskington.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 26, 2026

    The movie Wish Dragon was very fun and very underrated ✨

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  • Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.socialBluesky · May 15, 2026

    "The Thai studio has spent years working primarily as a service and support house on international productions, including Wish Dragon, The Tiger’s Apprentice, and Ne Zha 2, the highest-grossing animated film of all time. Audiences have already seen their work, even if they may not realize it."

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  • ToxicGhost58 @toxicghost58.bsky.socialBluesky · May 14, 2026

    Matt Braly and Rebecca Sugar's "Afterworld", the movie that was recently scrapped by Sony, has been saved! It was picked up by a studio in Thailand called The MONK Studios, and they've worked on movies like "Wish Dragon", "The Tiger's Apprentice", and "Ne Zha 2".

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  • James Abrams AKA CabCat @cabcat.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 6, 2026

    Can I just say "Wish Dragon"(2021) is still a great animated movie.

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  • Omegathenook 🇬🇧 (Don't spoil ForIsle for me until Oct 16th!) @omegathenook.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 8, 2026

    2018 - Maggie Kang pitched the film over to "Shrek" producer Aron Warner while he's working on "Wish Dragon" at Sony. 3 years later, the film was announced to be in development.

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  • Frei 🇻🇪 @freithunderdra.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 6, 2026

    15. Wish Dragon Just a nice movie to realx and have some laughs. I desperatly need a plushie of the dragon because its not fair how much the make the old man cute

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  • Jesus_A_Oquendo_Cortes @jesusoquendocortes.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 27, 2025

    Wish Dragon (2021): 7.5/10. Pretty good movie right here i perfer K-Pop Demon Hunters to me.

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  • PEAKYSEER (ツ) @peakyseerrrrrrr.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 8, 2025

    This movie literally came out of nowhere. I was expecting it to turn out like Wish Dragon or Vivo. Kinda forgotten but pretty good movies. But then ppl started talking abt it and now it’s basically Sony’s new flagship IP (besides spider-verse)

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  • Burkely Hermann @historyhermann.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 10, 2025

    As for the aforementioned Appelhans, he has been working on animation since 2006, mostly as a character designer, illustrator, or concept artist. His directorial debut was in the 2021 film Wish Dragon, for which Sechrist served the story head. (158/?)

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  • Curt Johnson - Indie Genius @indiegeniusMastodon · Sep 5, 2025

    Movie TV Tech Geeks #MovieFeatures #WishDragon #Animation If You Love ‘KPop Demon Hunters,’ One of Its Directors Has Another Amazing Animated Film on Netflix http://dlvr.it/TMv5X1

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  • Cameron Ward (Cam's Eye View) @camseyeview.bizBluesky · Jul 30, 2025

    Since Kpop Demon Hunters is still big, you could check out the co-director Chris Happelhan's previous film Wish Dragon. Consider it like a gen Z Emperor's New Groove in terms of just jokes on jokes on jokes with genuinely sweet character dynamics

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  • Nick of the Stars 🌟 @bahusch.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 16, 2025

    I'm cautiously optimistic for now. Yes, they made hits like Spiderverse, Mitchells, Vivo, Wish Dragon, but they also made the Emoji Movie so you never know. It's hard to judge from a poster alone.

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  • Kylie @kylie1969.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 1, 2025

    Last night we watched a #CGI #Netflix film called Wish Dragon 🐉 If you could have 3 wishes, what would they be? It was really enjoyable. Funny moments, heartfelt moments and all round good fun 👍 They are releasing the sequel this year, which is great! Recommended 👍 #films #movies #weekend

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  • Lizziebeth @lizziegolucky.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 24, 2024

    Wish Dragon is properly buried on Netflix. I only happened across it when reading about another film on reddit. It was pretty fun for a generic genie wish film. I wanted to see more back story on the dragon. Small liked it too 📽

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  • Leon/Leo 🦖🍉 @lbat1901.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 10, 2024

    (2021) A drawing of Long from the movie Wish Dragon which you should totally watch #wishdragon #wishdragonmovie #wishdragonfanart

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  • Tyler Cuddletail @tylercuddletail.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 5, 2024

    Long the Wish Dragon? I love that movie!

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  • ✨AstroFolf✨ 🔜MFC 2026 @d1cksucker9000.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 24, 2024

    I COMPLETELY FORGOT THE WISH DRAGON EXISTED such a good movie oh my gosh

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  • Kirkus & Kairōs @kirkuskairos.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 31, 2023

    There, there, 🫂 Tbh, doing a fan drawing of an eastern dragon character is fine too 😌👍 Like the dragon from Dragon Ball, or the Wish Dragon from his movie. (Not sure about Kohaku in his dragon form from Spirited Away, but he could work too.)

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  • sank99 @sank99TMDB reviews · Jun 16, 2021

    To be fair, I didn't expect much. Having pretty much watched everything on Netflix over the past 18 months, I had spent over 30 minutes scrolling and clicking, seemingly in vain, for something interesting. So, in an effort to avoid defeat and an early bedtime, I thought that I'd at least give Wish Dragon a try. So glad I did. It turned out to be a heartwarming, well animated, expertly acted gem. It would be easy to think that this is a simple re-telling of the Arabian Aladdin story but in a…

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  • Animation Force @[email protected]Mastodon · Apr 28, 2021

    Netflix adds #WishDragon on June 11 to @[email protected] streaming slate of #TheMitchellsvsTheMachines (April 30) and #Vivo. https://tmblr.co/ZdNsfsa4K3gTOa00

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  • Phobos D'thorga (VK3VKK 📻) @[email protected]Mastodon · Apr 1, 2021

    RT @[email protected] Some visual development I did for Wish Dragon back to 2017, and I will share more with you soon. Can't wait to this film on Netflix. #visualdevelopment #Wishdragon #Conceptart #artofanimation #animation

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Jimmy Wong
Din (voice)
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