Hayao Miyazaki, master of animation and family movies, is back to work on a new movie for his workplace Studio Ghibli this time with an interesting new addition to the team. It has been reported that Miyazaki is currently working on a new film, and his son, Gorō Miyazaki, has another film of his own.
In 2013, movie lovers mourned the end of the elder animator’s great career when he announced his retirement. That didn’t last long. By 2016, Hayao Miyazaki declared that he couldn’t stay away from the artist table and was already hard at work on a new film that he had entitled “How Do You Live?” The artist has created masterpieces like “My Neighbor Totoro,” “Ponyo,” “Kiki’s Delivery Service,” and “Spirited Away,” which won an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and became the highest grossing film in Japanese history. Miyazaki’s work has been renowned and loved across the globe, and recently his son has started showing the same aptitude.
Despite the strained relationship the two have been described to have, Gorō Miyazaki began working with his father’s company in the early 2000s, designing the storyboard and later moving to direct the 2006 animated film “Tales of Earthsea,” based on the book series of Ursula K. Le Guin. Later, the younger Miyazaki went on to direct another Studio Ghibli film in 2011, “From up on Poppy Hill,” but this time working more closely with his father who was the screenwriter. Now, it looks like they will be working on their own respective Studio Ghibli films, according to Vincent Maraval.
The founder of the production company Wild Bunch, Maraval has often collaborated with the elder Miyazaki and apparently has the inside scoop. He tweeted out that two new productions from Studio Ghibli were in progress, one each from the father and son. Maybe one of the two will be the film ‘How Do You Live,’ which Miyazaki came out of retirement for? Only time will tell.
Je peux témoigner, miyazaki pere et fils sont au travail. 2 nouvelles productions des studios ghibli sont en cours et les dessins sont in-cro-ya-bles ! Tres grosse emotion
— VINCENT MARAVAL 🇲🇨 (@MARAVALV) January 21, 2019
