Gargoyles Creator Posts Art From Cancelled 2020 Disney Reboot Pitch

Overview

• This week Ciro Nieli publicly shared concept art and a detailed summary of a Gargoyles reboot he pitched to Disney Television Animation in 2020.
• Nieli said his pitch would have picked up decades after the original series with Canmore using the Grimorium Arcanium to put the gargoyles back to sleep before Elisa Maza, now police commissioner, reawakens them in 2020 to reclaim New York.
• The proposed show favored a streamlined full 2D animation style and included notable character changes, including a story beat in which Goliath loses an arm that is replaced with a cybernetic limb.
• Disney ultimately decided not to greenlight Nieli’s revival and he did not cite a single reason for the pass, though coverage notes the 2020 timing and COVID-era production disruption as likely factors.
• The disclosure arrives as the franchise continues through comics and a separately reported live-action Gargoyles project with showrunner Gary Dauberman remains in development for Disney+.