Descendants: The Royal Wedding will acknowledge the absence of the character Carlos, played by the late Cameron Boyce, in the storyline and Boyce’s memory also will be honored in the telecast. Earlier this week, Descendants stars took to Twitter on behalf of Disney Channel and Descendants 3 to give us sneak peeks of today’s news, but really gave nothing away! We focus on bringing you all things fun so you can plan your theme park vacation, enjoy Disney at home, and more. Surely they will create a beautiful Disney Descendants Mal doll out of the animated feature’s new look! During the thirty-minute-long finale episode of Secrets of Sulphur Springs, we got our biggest Descendants news yet!

Many Descendants fans felt that after the passing of Cameron Boyce, who played the teenage character of Cruella De Vil’s son Carlos, the franchise had concretely ended after just three films. This Disney’s heroes and villains royal event will be an animated special that invites viewers to Mal and King Ben’s wedding day and will premiere this summer on Disney Channel.Queen of Mean (Princess Audrey, Sleeping Beauty’s daughter) Sarah Jeffrey had promised it would cause our jaws to drop and Boo Boo Stewart (Jay, Jafar’s evil heir) was hinting at just as much. Disney fans can catch all three Descendants movies right now, available on Disney Plus, as well as music videos and musical numbers from the Disney Channel Original Movie (plus some Descendants-Zombies mashup songs) on Spotify and other music apps. Carlos was an integral part of the main iconic Disney heroes (with Mal, Jay, Evie, and China Ann McClain as Uma, among others), and he will be missed greatly. I will be forever grateful for Descendants and the family I made there and the experiences I had,” she later added.

It had the benefit of immensely talented stars, who we now welcome back for this animated Royal Wedding special that will bridge the audience to what we hope will be a new chapter of compelling Descendants stories and characters yet to come. We can expect Descendants: The Royal Wedding to debut this August 13, 2021, and Hades will surely make an appearance with the royal family (will Maleficent appear, too? We hear Mal’s voice echoing over a magical animation: “A million moments lead to this, where bride and groom will share a kiss…” Mal and Ben will be getting MARRIED!

We’re grateful for his presence in those three films but glad that Carlos will also live on in other ways like this animated special, which may serve as a sort of Descendants 4. I feel like a Descendants 4 could totally happen, but also a spinoff could happen, with new characters and new daughters and sons of princesses and princes and other villains.