Rooster Run’s Newest and Nimona Lead Netflix’s Annecy Slate

Headlining Netflix’s animation slate at Annecy Worldwide 2023 are Aardman’s subsequent franchise installment Rooster 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) contains a distinguished LGBTQIA+ storyline, following a knight who’s “framed for against the law he didn’t commit and the one one that 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 in contrast to something animation has tackled earlier than, this can be a story in regards to 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 at the moment, detailed by What’s On Netflix, led by the these two massive titles. Other movies will embrace Leo, a “jaded 74-year-old lizard Leo has been caught in the identical Florida classroom for many years along with his terrarium-mate turtle. When he learns he solely has one 12 months left to reside, he plans to flee to expertise life on the skin however as a substitute 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 preventing Stick as they crew up on an epic quest the place they have to go face to face in opposition to gods, demons, dragons, and the best enemy of all, Monkey’s personal ego!”

On the collection facet of content material, Netflix might be debuting Blue Eye Samurai, the story of a blended race grasp of the sword in Edo period Japan, and the extremely anticipated adaptation of the hilarious card sport Exploding Kittens, which can 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, rely us in!

The Annecy Worldwide Animation Movie Competition will happen in France from June 11-17 2023. 

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