A new hero takes shape in the latest trailer for the Netflix adaptation of Nimona. Released courtesy of Netflix, Nimona will adapt the comic book series of the same name, and follows the title character, a shapeshifter, as she fights to defeat the authoritarian organization known as The Institution of Law Enforcement and Heroics. You can check out the newly released trailer for Nimona below.
Directed by Nick Bruno and Troy Quane from a screenplay written by Robert L. Baird and Lloyd Taylor, Nimona will transform the award-winning comic series of the same name by ND Stevenson into a CGI adventure for Netflix. The story begins when Nimona, a teenager with the power to shapeshift, is targeted by a knight for assassination. The knight’s mission to kill Nimona becomes complicated when he is accused of a crime and learns that Nimona may be able to exonerate him.
Nimona unites a stellar pair of actors to bring the central duo to life, with Kick-Ass and Let Me In star Chloë Grace Moretz voicing the title character, while Academy Award winner and Sound of Metal star Riz Ahmed provides the vocals for Ballister Blackheart.
The rest of the cast behind Nimona includes Eugene Lee Yang (The Try Guys), Frances Conroy (Six Feet Under, Joker), Lorraine Toussaint (Star Wars: Visions, Orange Is the New Black), Beck Bennett (Sing, The Mitchells vs the Machines), RuPaul (RuPaul’s Drag Race), Indya Moore (Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom), Julio Torres (Bob’s Burgers), and Sarah Sherman (Saturday Night Live).
Nimona Will Finally Hit Screens Next Month
“There were probably millions of takes of me doing absolutely off-the-wall crazy stuff, but you can really tell how she has ups and downs, she’s throwing all these things out there, and then will kind of slam you rock hard in your stomach with this sweet honesty when she gets to her own truth,” Moretz said of voicing the main character. “In those moments your heart really melts for her, and that’s something that really came across on the page and even more so in the movie now.”
Her co-star Riz Ahmed meanwhile quickly fell in love with both the story and character saying, “When I heard about this story, I just felt an instant connection to it and to Ballister, and I think others will too because most of us have known what it’s like to be on the outside,” Ahmed said before offering some insight into the mind of Ballister Blackheart. “That’s what Ballister is really dealing with, a sense of being an impostor who so badly wants to prove he’s worthy of this institution. But of course, what you realize by the end is that you don’t get your sense of worth from other people telling you what you’re worth. You have to think for yourself and live by your own values.”
Adapting Nimona for the screen has been a troubled journey. Picked up by 20th Century Fox Animation back in 2015, the project suffered several delays before simply being canceled by Disney after the acquisition of Fox and the shutting down of the animation studio Blue Sky Studios by The House of Mouse. The project was then shopped around to other studios, with Annapurna Pictures eventually stepping into to save the movie just last year.
Nimona is scheduled to premiere at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival on June 14, 2023, and will land on Netflix on June 30, 2023.
This story originally appeared on Movieweb
