Nimona: Disneys Cancelled LGBTQ Movie Included Chloë Grace Moretz, Riz Ahmed ( Exclusive)

Last month, Disney announced it would soon be shutting down Connecticutbased Blue Sky Studios, which it acquired as part of its 2019 merger with 20th Century Fox. According to Buzzfeed News, the decision left Blue Sky s animated movie Nimona in limbo, something that was particularly dispiriting as the film was poised to become Disney s first featurelength animated movie to showcase queer lead characters, as well as a samesex kiss. Now, Collider has exclusively learned that Chloë Grace Moretz and Riz Ahmed would ve voiced two of the three lead characters in Nimona, and that the unfinished project has been shopped to buyers with the hope of finding it a new home, though there haven t been any takers just yet. Sources close to the situation tell Collider that Blue Sky leadership continues to explore options to finish the film. Sources say that roughly 75 percent of the work on Nimona had been completed, but there was still another 10 months of production to go, leaving Disney with a difficult business decis