Miyazaki is seemingly working on another Studio Ghibli movie - and fans think it's a sequel to this anime classic
May. 29, 2024Nausicaa returns?
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Now in his sixth decade of directing animated films and responsible for a dozen Studio Ghibli classics, Hayao Miyazaki surely has nothing left to prove in the industry.
According to his son Goro Miyazaki during a talk at the Ghibli Museum, however, the legendary director may be feeling nostalgic for his next feature (viaOriconand translated byCBR).
“I don’t know if it’ll actually be for his next film, but it’s looking like an action-adventure-type movie, nostalgic and reminiscent of the old days,” Goro Miyazaki said, while adding that his father’s hobby of making ‘panoramic boxes of previous works’ during production ofThe Boy and the Heronhas led to work beginning on the new project.
While the original machine translation on Oricon makes a loose reference to a ‘sequel’ – one that looks to be a little lost in translation, if you ask us – some fans are convinced Miyazaki’s new film is going to be a follow-up to 1984’s Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, encompassing the full manga story written by Miyazaki that eventually concluded in 1994.
“This confirms it’s a Nausicaa sequel,” onewrote on Twitter. Anotheradded, “If actually true, pointing towards being a Nausicaa sequel.”
“Getting more casual Ghibli fans into Nausicaa by making a sequel could be Miyazaki’s masterstroke,” onecommented. “That movie is mindblowingly imaginative and i can only dream of what sort of stuff it might inspire.”
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Previously, whispers intensified after a making-of documentary of The Boy and the Heron featured artwork of Nausicaa and her pet, Teto. During a section on the director’s future, Miyazaki said – curiously – that it’s “painful to return to this world.” (H/TComicBook.com). Watch this space.
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