She-Ra Showrunner Noelle Stevenson Wanted To Broaden Hero Archetypes
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She-Ra showrunner Noelle Stevenson set out to broaden hero archetypes with the creative team’s work on the series. Dreamworks scored a huge hit with the new version of the character. Stevenson’s team made it a focus to showcase the
Princesses of Powerin some slightly new light for the Netflix series. In a conversation with ITV, the showrunner talked about how much of an emphasis representation was on the show. Adore, Glimmer, Bow and all their friends have individual moments of heroism where they can save the day using the skills that set them apart. For the creative team, this was put out in front early. A hero doesn’t always have to be one type of person or look one type of way. There are so many ways to deliver a victory in the face of hardship, and
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Fanaticism has helped define our era. The popularity of unthinking, passionate adherence to a belief system over everything else, and the subsequent unwillingness to critically analyze the actions taken in the name of this ideology, has resulted in a series of unprecedented events in American politics and society. It has given rise to “alternate facts,” claims that anyone disagreeing with you is confirmation of your rightness, coverups of horrifying abuse scandals in some groups, and acts of international and domestic terrorism supported by others. This is a zealotry entirely different from feeling passionate about your religion, your philosophy, or your code it is a self-fulfilling, all-consuming obsession that rejects reality and substitutes its own, that persecutes dissidents and demands blind faith and conformity from its adherents.
Disney is shutting down Blue Sky Studios and won t release its final movie, Nimona.
Staffers say it was on track to be completed by October ahead of its planned January 2022 release.
Now the movie likely won t ever be completed and staffers say it s heartbreaking.
Blue Sky Studios final movie will likely never see the light of day and staffers say it s a big disappointment.
The animation studio, which was behind the Ice Age movies and more, will close for good at the end of April. Disney inherited the Connecticut-based studio in its Fox acquisition in 2019. But the company announced last week that it would shut down the studio after 34 years due to the current economic realities of the coronavirus pandemic.