Equestria Girls: Nimona and the Eternal Warriors

*Ed, Edd N Eddy*
by Danny Antonucci

*Nimona*
by ND Stevenson
Film developed
by Blue Sky Studios
Annapurna Animation

*Unicorn: Warriors Eternal*
by Genndy Tartakovsky

***Equestria Girls: Nimona and the Eternal Warriors*** is a computer-animated science fantasy adventure crossover comedy film based on the works from Annapurna Pictures' animation gallery like *Sausage Party* and *Missing Link* and a tribute to former animation studio Blue Sky Studios. Unlike the last two Blue Sky/DL crossovers featuring the Equestria Girls and the Eds from *Rio* to *Horton Hears a Who!*, this will put them together to tackle a new threat inspired by Netflix/Annapurna's animated film, *Nimona*, in which was loosely based on the novel of the same name by ND Stevenson. Produced and developed from B-Master Animation and KirbyStar Studios, the film is set within the style of Daniel Lawrence's Powerpuff Girls Z Adventures to avoid all Disney aspects of the film and will be distributed from Warner Bros. Pictures and Annapurna Pictures.

## Plot

Set within an medieval-futuristic kingdom named after Ice Age director Chris Wedge, Sunset Shimmer and her friends get framed for a murder with one of the Institute's former knights, Ballister Boldheart, a commoner who was set up to kill the queen in front of everyone, including his boyfriend Ambrosius Goldenloin. To clear their names, the Eds insist to help them with their smart, kind, and quite sophisticated older teenage sister, Nimona, who wants to be a sidekick to Ballister due to two things; to not be bored and want to cause some serious mayhem with her shapeshifting powers. With the kingdom in high risk thanks to our heroes, their investigation to find the murder ends up being a journey to discover the truth behind its legacy along with how it could relate to Nimona and her powers. Including a friendship she had 1,000 years before its kingdom was built upon.

## Cast

* Rebecca Shoichet as Sunset Shimmer
* Chloë Grace Moretz as Nimona
	+ Mia Collins voices Nimona's Demon Baby disguise
	+ Jodelle Ferland also voices young Nimona
* Adam DeVine as Eddy
	+ Andrew St. Germain as Young Eddy and Additional Voices
* Blake Anderson as Double D
	+ Sam Vincent as Young Double D
* Anders Holm as Ed
	+ Matt Hill as Young Ed
* Riz Ahmed as Ballister Boldheart
	+ Zayaan Kunwar as young Ballister
* Tara Strong as Twilight Sparkle (Sci-Twi)
	+ Strong also provide additional voices
* Ashleigh Ball as Applejack and Rainbow Dash
* Andrea Libman as Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie
* Tabitha St. Germain as Rarity
* Eugene Lee Yang as Ambrosius Goldenloin
* Frances Conroy as The Director
* Hazel Doupe as Melinda / Emma Fairfax
* Tom Milligan as Edred
* Demari Hunte as Alfie / Seng
* Tom Holland as Walter Beckett
* Will Smith as Lance Sterling / Pigeon Lance
* Beck Bennett as Sir Thoddeus “Todd” Sureblade
* Lorraine Toussaint as Queen Valerin
* RuPaul as Nate Knight
* Indya Moore as Alamzapam Davis
* Julio Torres as Diego the Squire
* Sarah Sherman as Coriander Cavaverish

## Trivia

* This is the first to adapt an Annapurna project since *Kirby and the Missing Link*.
* The idea of the Eds being brothers and siblings to Nimona happened during after production on *Road to Rio: A Balan Wonderworld Movie*. This concept of the boys being siblings to Nimona was inspired by their recent works and loosely inspired by how the novel was. Another idea from this was to explore Nimona's young self from both the film and the novel version, debating if that Young Nimona would be her true form based on the made-up stories about how she got her powers. The inspiration for Young Nimona would be close to Agatha Prenderghast from ParaNorman, due to the similarities of the character from the film and her personality.
* The humor behind The Eds and Nimona will be heavily inspired by Aardman's *The Pirates: Band of Misfits*, which became a huge source material to their sibling dynamic. It was used from another EENE project, *Curse of the Were-Rabbid* which was loosely based on the Wallace & Gromit film with a Wonder Park twist inspired by Tristian Campbell.
	+ Additionally, other source material from the novel will be used to build up Nimona's story arc, along with some unused deleted bits from the original take from Blue Sky to be used in some parts of the film.
* Animation for the film is provided by Double Negative (DNEG) and Mikros Image Montreal (Mikros Animation) with traditional animation provided by Mercury Filmworks and Studio La Cachette. The art-style for the film will remain the same as it's Netflix film but will give new details inspired by the novel and the Nickelodeon/Point Grey animated film *Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem*, giving an allusion of a teenager scribbling over an fairy tale drawing.
	+ While the film may be an tribute to Blue Sky Studios, the team at B-Master wanted to focus on bring the stylized versions that Blue Sky was gonna make from Nimona to fit the character from her design and looks while the rest feels like it's from DNEG. Original character model assets on Nimona, in both her teenage self and her young self via human form, will have details from Blue Sky Studios provided by Mikros Animation, making stand out to the others than the Netflix film.
	+ A 2D animated flashback scene inspired by the novel and the film will be used in the same art-style from the novel by ND Stevenson, and will be fully hand-drawn from Tonic DNA, supervised by animator Sandro Cleuzo.

## Gallery

**Nimona****Eddy****Double D****Ed****Ballister Boldheart****Sunset Shimmer****Twilight Sparkle****Pinkie Pie****Fluttershy****Rainbow Dash****Applejack****Rarity***Ambrosius Goldenloin**Walter Beckett*