Headlining Netflix’s animation slate at Annecy Worldwide 2023 are Aardman’s subsequent franchise installment Hen Run: Daybreak of the Nugget, and the little movie that could, Nimona.
io9 has extensively adopted Nimona’s journey from the defunct Blue Sky Animation studios to getting picked up by Netflix. The movie from ND Stevenson (Netflix’s She-Ra and the Princesses of Energy) includes a outstanding LGBTQIA+ storyline, following a knight who’s “framed for against the law he didn’t commit and the one one who may help him show his innocence is Nimona, a shape-shifting teen who may also be a monster he’s sworn to kill,” in response to its official synopsis. “Set in a techno-medieval world not like something animation has tackled earlier than, this can be a story concerning the labels we assign to folks and the shapeshifter who refuses to be outlined by anybody.”
The streamer unveiled its movie and collection entries to the French animation fest right now, detailed by What’s On Netflix, led by the these two huge titles. Other movies will embrace Leo, a “jaded 74-year-old lizard Leo has been caught in the identical Florida classroom for many years together with his terrarium-mate turtle. When he learns he solely has one yr left to dwell, he plans to flee to expertise life on the skin however as an alternative will get caught up within the issues of his anxious college students – together with an impossibly imply substitute instructor” and The Monkey King, which “follows a monkey and his magical combating Stick as they crew up on an epic quest the place they have to go face to face towards gods, demons, dragons, and the best enemy of all, Monkey’s personal ego!”
On the collection aspect of content material, Netflix can be debuting Blue Eye Samurai, the story of a combined race grasp of the sword in Edo period Japan, and the extremely anticipated adaptation of the hilarious card recreation Exploding Kittens, which is able to take the gameplay into an “everlasting battle between Heaven and Hell” which “reaches epic proportions when each God and the Satan are despatched to Earth—within the our bodies of chunky home cats.” Say no extra, depend us in!
The Annecy Worldwide Animation Movie Pageant will happen in France from June 11-17 2023.
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