{"id":164,"date":"2022-03-19T17:07:55","date_gmt":"2022-03-19T15:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/disney-disapproved-of-gay-kiss-in-scrapped-nimona-movie\/"},"modified":"2022-03-19T17:07:55","modified_gmt":"2022-03-19T15:07:55","slug":"disney-disapproved-of-gay-kiss-in-scrapped-nimona-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/disney-disapproved-of-gay-kiss-in-scrapped-nimona-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney Disapproved of Gay Kiss in Scrapped Nimona Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"
Disney Disapproved of Gay Kiss in Scrapped Nimona Movie<\/div>\n
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According to Insider<\/em><\/a><\/span>, former staffers at the Disney-acquired\u2014and then shuttered<\/span>\u2014studio Blue Sky were pressured into censoring a same-sex kiss in their animated adaptation of Nimona<\/em><\/span>. The staffers took kiss out of future presentations with Disney<\/span> executives, although they state that they hoped to include it in the final film. According to an interview with The Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/span>, the movie was almost \u201c75%\u201d complete when Disney decided to scrap the entire project<\/span>. <\/p>\n

Nimona<\/em><\/span> was originally published as a webcomic<\/span> by ND Stevenson, a queer, transgender writer. He began writing it in 2012, while still a student at MICA, and it was submitted as his final thesis. The fantasy comic\u2019s titular character, Nimona, is a shape-shifter who follows around a knight and attempts to bring down a corrupt institution. The comic was acquired by Harper Teen and published as a graphic novel, and proceeded to win an Eisner award in 2016. Nimona<\/em> features a queer and gender non-conforming cast, and has roots in Stevenson\u2019s own experiences. Nimona herself is considered gender non-conforming.<\/p>\n

Blue Sky studios, a division of Fox, was well-known for the Ice Age<\/em> films. When Disney inherited the studio in 2019, however, there were reportedly clashes between leadership at the studio and Disney. According to Insider<\/em>, Disney executives pushed back against the queer characters and themes present in the movie in 2020. Disney ultimately\u00a0shut down the studio in February of 2021, and Nimona, <\/em>despite already having a 2022 release date and being near completion, was canceled.<\/p>\n

While Disney has started taking steps towards more racially representative stories and films, its track record for queer representation is basically non-existent<\/span>. Considering the controversy it now finds itself surrounded by<\/span> through virtue of proximity to Florida\u2019s near-universally derided<\/span> \u201cDon\u2019t Say Gay<\/span>\u201d Bill, this news comes as no surprise. What\u2019s particularly sad about this revelation is that in Nimona<\/em>, there was a chance for a queer creator<\/span> to have openly queer characters<\/span> on screen, and make a huge impact in the cultural consciousness. Instead we have an unfinished film languishing in production hell, and have unearthed more violence against queer existence in media at the hands of one of the biggest movie studios on the planet. Safe to say that Disney probably isn\u2019t<\/em> the happiest place on earth<\/span> anymore.<\/p>\n

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Disney Disapproved of Gay Kiss in Scrapped Nimona Movie According to Insider, former staffers at the Disney-acquired\u2014and then shuttered\u2014studio Blue Sky were pressured into censoring a same-sex kiss in their animated adaptation of Nimona. The staffers took kiss out of future presentations with Disney executives, although they state that they hoped to include it in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}