![]() ![]() Nimona is a near-perfect film, with animation so dazzling and dizzying that it puts Pixar’s recent attempts to shame. In 2022, the film was given new life when Annapurna Pictures and Netflix picked it up, saving it from being yet another animated film with a queer storyline censored to the point of nonexistence.ĭisney’s loss is an epic one. But former staffers revealed that, before Blue Sky’s untimely end in 2021, Disney execs were already pushing back against Nimona for apparently not being in line with the company’s messaging the movie features a gender-nonconforming lead character and a gay kiss. Disney absorbed all of Blue Sky’s projects, eventually dissolving the studio and canceling the film. But gratitude is certainly the premier feeling, especially if you know that the film was nearly shelved entirely.īack in 2020, Disney acquired 21st Century Fox, which had been heading up Nimona’s adaptation from the graphic-novel page to the big screen, under the animation house Blue Sky Studios. ![]() Well, scratch that-maybe not “anything.” The new animated film elicits just about every single emotion that any decent one should be able to dredge up out of the icy hearts of its adult viewers, just as much as it does for children. Watching Netflix’s Nimona (streaming June 30), it’s hard to feel anything but gratitude. ![]()
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