Once upon a time, Fox’s Blue Sky Studios was hard at work on a radical animated film. Conceived as an anti-establishment, pro-LGBTQ adventure in a far-flung medieval realm, Nimona was poised as a radical wake-up call for a sleeping animation industry. But its existence wasn’t always guaranteed: when Disney took over Fox, shuttering Blue Sky and all of its upcoming projects, Nimona itself seemed doomed to a dreamless slumber. Fortunately, Netflix and Annapurna Animation swooped in to recover the project in the midnight hour. Production swiftly resumed, and in June 2023, Netflix finally unleashed Nimona.
