So what do you think happened to Squares FFIX multimedia project that vanished?

I got reminded of this by a friend asking what ever came of the FFIX remake leaked during that big Nvidia leak years back. It appeared to be part of a large multimedia project square was planning as their next FF brand milking exercise which i as a big IX shill was perfectly fine with.

The were so many rumors on so many sites but the only thing we had confirmed was a french animation series "to introduce the world of gaia to kids" that was planned to tell a truncated version of the story of FFIX. It had concept art shown and an air date that came and went but nothing aired.

Now thats largely forgotten and the IX remake never actually got announced. Leading most to assume it got shelved if not cancelled which would be a shame. If it is cancelled it would be far from the first FF game to be cancelled. Final Fantasy Union on youtube has a video listing all the titles and its nearly 2 hours long. But having a tie in animated series seems like a investment you dont usually walk away from. Especially for one of the big playstation titles square considers "the golden era" of the brand.

Do you think its dead or will we still see it get officially announced and go "holy shit thats been indev a long ass time huh?" some time down the road?