“I can’t even imagine what it would be like if this movie went smoothly,” ND Stevenson said in an interview with The Daily Beast’s Obsessed, shortly before 'Nimona's' June 30 release.
; Fox-owned Blue Sky Studios was set to produce a film adaptation. But in 2019, Disney took over Blue Sky when it acquired 21st Century Fox. In 2021, with the film 75-percent completed, Disney shut down Blue Sky, cancelingin the process. Though Disney claimed this was because of ongoing issues with the pandemic, a number of
claimed that Disney had issues with its queer themes, which are rarely seen in mainstream Western animation, including a same-sex kiss.alongside Annapurna Pictures. Eight years after that first announcement, themovie is finally here. “The movie died and came back a couple times,” Stevenson said, a hopefulness in his voice. “If none of these outsized, dramatic events happened to it, I don’t know what this movie would be. I don’t think I’d recognize it.”—crafted a defiantly, joyously queer world.
So being here now with the whole crew in New York, we’re riding so high on this, and we’re all still having to pinch ourselves a little bit, being like, “This is real. This is happening. This movie is going to be out there!” It’s a really good feeling.as a comic [in 2012], I had no idea what I was doing. I was still just figuring out how to make comics. One of my favorite things about the book is you can see me learning how to draw as it goes on. The comic is so scrappy, and it’s so free-form.
We all know the stories of creators who’ve had their work adapted. There’s really anything that can happen, there’s no guarantee that you’re going to like what’s made, and there’s no guarantee it’s gonna match your vision. I had to just hope for the best.I had various levels of involvement with the movie at different times. Sometimes I was pretty hands-off. Sometimes I was pretty involved in the daily cycle of things. But I think overall, I was pretty open to having changes made.
The film departs from the graphic novel in some pretty significant ways—Ballister is a very different character, the retro-futurist world feels a lot more developed, and Nimona herself gets more of a backstory. Were there elements that you were especially protective and wanted to maintain in the film? Were there elements that you were especially protective of and wanted to keep in the film?
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