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Below is the link and story for FOX Animation acquiring the rights to adapt Noelle Stevenson’s NIMONA.
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Studio exec-turned-screenwriter Marc Haimes is attached to pen the script for the project.
In a competitive situation, Fox Animation is picking up the rights to Nimona, the New York Times best-selling graphic novel by Noelle Stevenson for an adaptation to be directed by Patrick Osborne, the director behind the Oscar-winning short Feast.
Studio exec-turned-screenwriter Marc Haimes is attached to pen the script for the project, which will be produced by Roy Lee of Vertigo Entertainment and the company’s president of production Adam Stone.
A mash-up of genres, Nimona is set in a Medieval Future where knights go to night clubs riding hoverboards and carrying swords and tells of a young shape shifter who teams up with disgraced knight in order to reclaim his honor and overthrow a corrupt regime.
Stevenson wrote and drew Nimona as a web comic while still a student at Maryland Institute College of Art and it was even her thesis. The popularity and acclaim of the comic led to Harvey and Eisner Awards, as well as her awarded the Slate Cartoonist Studio Prize for Best Web Comic in 2012.
Vertigo partner John Powers Middleton will executive produce while company creative exec Gabriel Chu will oversee the project for the company.
Fox executives, Vanessa Morrison and Darlene Caamano Loquet will oversee for the studio.
Osborne directed Feast, the Disney short that told a love story through the eyes of a dog and that won an Academy Award earlier this year. Osborne was also the head of animation for Big Hero 6 and worked on a range of Disney projects, from Wreck-It Ralph to Paperman.
Haimes, a former DreamWorks exec, already has some animation work under his belt. He wrote Kubo and the Two Strings, which is Laika’s next production that will be released in August 2016 and has the voices of Charlize Theron, Matthew McConaughey and Rooney Mara. The scribe, repped by WME and Grandview, also wrote the English language adaptation of the Norwegian film Troll Hunter for Neil Marshall.
Stevenson is repped by APA, InkWell Management and attorney Matt Sugerman of Weinstraub Tobin.