Lucasfilm previously collaborated with Japanese anime studios for the “Star Wars: Visions” Disney+ collection.
Studio Ghibli is cooking up a thing sweet with Lucasfilm and Walt Disney Co.
The famed Japanese animation studio tweeted the Lucasfilm brand, a information amplified by at minimum 1 Disney executive. Walt Disney Pictures’ President of Advertising Asad Ayaz retweeted the Studio Ghibli article with a hinting eyes emoji.
Studio Ghibli is very best known for making movies like “KiKi’s Shipping Service,” “Princess Mononoke,” and “Spirited Away.” The output company’s most the latest movie was “Earwig and the Witch,” unveiled in 2020.
There is precedent for this sort of a collaboration here also: Lucasfilm, the creators behind the “Star Wars” franchise, has collaborated with Japanese animators to carry anime aesthetics to the Disney+ collection “Star Wars: Visions.” Lucasfilm partnered with seven anime studios to produce nine brief films established in the “Star Wars” galaxy.
“The intention with ‘Visions’ was usually that we required this to be genuine Japanese anime,” govt producer James Waugh advised The Hollywood Reporter in 2021. “We desired it to be a true expression from these personal creators in a process that they’re employed to. The previous detail we wanted to do was be a Western studio that went with our thoughts and then really leaned on them for their aesthetic. They ended up creating stories and concepts that could only come from their exceptional cultural point of view.”
Waugh credited Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy for getting “very instrumental” in bringing Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki’s work stateside.
As for other forthcoming “Star Wars” attribute movies, Oscar winner Taika Waititi is helming a new franchise installment that will “expand” the scope of “Star Wars” and introduce completely new figures. “Deadpool” director Shawn Levy is also in talks to direct a “Star Wars” film for Disney and Lucasfilm. “Wonder Woman” helmer Patty Jenkins is additionally attached to an additional “Star Wars” feature movie with an undetermined launch day.
The “Star Wars” sequence on Disney+ are further expanding with live-motion “Ahsoka” starring Rosario Dawson, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, and Hayden Christensen. Jude Legislation helps make his franchise debut with “Skeleton Crew,” directed by Marvel helmer Jon Watts. “Russian Doll” co-creator Leslye Headland is guiding “The Acolyte,” with a star-studded ensemble cast including “Matrix” icon Carrie-Anne Moss, “Squid Game” Emmy winner Lee Jung-jae, Jodie Turner-Smith, Amandla Stenberg, Manny Jacinto, and Charlie Barnett.
— スタジオジブリ STUDIO GHIBLI (@JP_GHIBLI) November 10, 2022
