A Look InsideNimona‘s Long Road to Release

TodayNetflixannounced thatNimonais finallygetting its chanceon screen . The news report , write by ND Stevenson , is about a shapeshifting young woman who convinces her good friend / liege lord to prosecute slap-up and and corking glory , set in a science - phantasy medieval land . So how did we get from webcomic to have film ?

The route to release has been … interesting , to say the least . What started out as college - agedStevenson ’s thesis projectin 2012 has now become a massively well - received and darling outside comic phenomenon , efficaciously kickstarting Stevenson ’s vocation and then pushing them past the Thomas Nelson Page and onto the screen as they land the position ofshowrunnerof Netflix’sShe - Ra and the Princesses of Power .

After it became readable that Nimona , the ego - published webcomic , was a hit , traditional publication came knocking in 2014 . The full comic is index in a stark edition from Harper Collins . io9 actuallyrevealed the coverto Nimona the graphic novel back in 2014 . you’re able to tally that out if you want to study an old interview with Stevenson , where he go into detail about the innovation of the fictitious character and , at the end of the interview , even mentions that he “ would love ” an animated film .

Screenshot: Blue Sky Studios

Foxcame around not much afterwards . In 2015 the first promulgation for the Nimona flick adjustment was released . But there were some hold in production , and in 2019 Disney evolve Fox and Blue Sky Studios , which was the vitality room where Nimona was being worked on . The moving picture was push from February 2020 to March 2021 , and then to January 2022 . Then , in February of 2021 , Disney announced that it would beshuttering Blue Sky Studios , and Nimona was being shelved , despite product saying that it was “ 75 % ” done with the film . staffer also said that Disney execs pushed them toeliminate a gay kissin the film , which came to visible light after backlash fromDisney ’s responseto the “ Do n’t Say Gay ” bill in Florida .

Some of that footage was given to io9 via an anon. tip . you’re able to see the 42 - second clip below .

This might have been the only part of Nimona to ever see the light of twenty-four hours , except that today Netflix announced that it would be release the moving-picture show . Annapurna , the production society behind Missing Link , will be finishing the film .

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It ’s not clear how much of this footage will be used in the upcoming pic , but the semblance palette and background visible in part of the footage matches the individual shot revealed on Stevenson and Netflix ’s twitter posts with the announcement from this daybreak . We see a hatful of exam footage of Lord Ballister Blackheart , who is , ostensibly , the teller of this story ; he watches his brother Nimona as she encourages him to fight against the evil university who did Blackheart legal injury . Blackheart will be voiced by Riz Ahmed , and Chloë Grace Moretz will voice Nimona .

Also notable is the new design for Ambrosious Goldenloin , whose haircloth and facial feature have been drastically changed beyond the simplified quality design of the webcomic . This indicates that even in 2020 , when this film was being develop , the output always intended to make Goldenloin a military man of Asian pedigree . Goldenloin will be voiced by Eugene Yang . And now ? Now we get to watch the whole film . And I know it ’s going to be incredible . Nimona will be useable on Netflix in 2023 .

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