Every Animated Movie Netflix Plans To Release In The Next Two Years

While they were bestowing us with a bit of Witcher information today, Netflix also casually dumped the schedule for EVERY animated movie on their plate through late 2024. It was believed Netflix cancelled most of their animated projects. Maybe they did, but this is still a lot.

The most anticipated of these is the one that’s coming first: Nimona, a film based on the ND Stephenson graphic novel that was originally in development at Blue Sky Studios. Disney could have had this movie if they hadn’t thrown it away upon acquiring Blue Sky in the 20th Century Studios buyout. Fortunately, Netflix rescued it and we’ll get to see the finished product very soon. Nimona will premiere this summer.

It will be followed by The Monkey King, a new take on the classic Chinese fable (and certainly not the first). Netflix says it “follows a charismatic Monkey and his magical fighting Stick on an epic quest for victory over 100 demons, an eccentric Dragon King, and Monkey’s greatest foe of all, his own ego!” Look for it later this summer, sometime after Nimona.

Then in the fall, Leo will premiere: an animated musical about a 74-year-old crotchety lizard who finds out his lifespan is about 75 years and decides he must escape from his glass cage in the back of an elementary school classroom to see the world before it’s too late. The cast includes Adam Sandler, Bill Burr, Cecily Strong, Jason Alexander and some others (including Sandler’s entire family apparently).

After Leo comes the long-anticipated Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget, the sequel to the 2000 stop-motion film. Having escaped the Tweedys’ farm, Ginger and the others are raising their flock on a remote island where no one can turn them into pies. But of course it’s not that simple: they learn of a new threat to chickens everywhere that they must take up arms to stop. Chicken Run 2 comes later this fall.

Then in 2024 you can look forward to In Your Dreams, about two kids who enter Dreamland on a quest to save their parents’ marriage, Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie (Paramount+ is probably mad they signed this deal with Netflix before they had their own streaming plans), Thelma the Unicorn, an animated Ultraman movie and finally, something called “That Christmas.” Nine animated movies in all. It makes one wonder how many we’d have originally gotten if the streaming bubble hadn’t burst.