Report: Disney Didn’t Want to See the Nimona Movie’s Gay Kiss

According to Insider, former staffers on the Disney-acquired—after which shuttered—studio Blue Sky have been pressured into censoring a same-sex kiss of their animated adaptation of Nimona. The staffers took kiss out of future displays with Disney executives, though they state that they hoped to incorporate it within the closing movie. According to an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the film was nearly “75%” full when Disney determined to scrap your complete undertaking.

Nimona was initially revealed as a webcomic by ND Stevenson, a queer, transgender author. He started writing it in 2012, whereas nonetheless a scholar at MICA, and it was submitted as his closing thesis. The fantasy comedian’s titular character, Nimona, is a shape-shifter who follows round a knight and makes an attempt to carry down a corrupt establishment. The comedian was acquired by Harper Teen and revealed as a graphic novel, and proceeded to win an Eisner award in 2016. Nimona contains a queer and gender non-conforming forged, and has roots in Stevenson’s personal experiences. Nimona herself is taken into account gender non-conforming.

Blue Sky studios, a division of Fox, was well-known for the Ice Age movies. When Disney inherited the studio in 2019, nonetheless, there have been reportedly clashes between management on the studio and Disney. According to Insider, Disney executives pushed again in opposition to the queer characters and themes current within the film in 2020. Disney finally shut down the studio in February of 2021, and Nimona, regardless of already having a 2022 launch date and being close to completion, was canceled.

While Disney has began taking steps in direction of extra racially consultant tales and movies, its monitor file for queer illustration is mainly non-existent. Considering the controversy it now finds itself surrounded by by way of advantage of proximity to Florida’s near-universally derided “Don’t Say Gay” Bill, this information comes as no shock. What’s notably unhappy about this revelation is that in Nimona, there was an opportunity for a queer creator to have overtly queer characters on display screen, and make a big impact within the cultural consciousness. Instead we’ve got an unfinished movie languishing in manufacturing hell, and have unearthed extra violence in opposition to queer existence in media by the hands of one of many largest film studios on the planet. Safe to say that Disney in all probability isn’t the happiest place on earth anymore.

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