Alla hade väl det på känn när arbetsnarkomanen Hayao Miyazaki skulle återvända till filmbranschen för att göra en sista film efter att ha försäkrat folk om att "Det Blåser En Vind" skulle bli hans sista verk och mycket riktigt arbetar den 79-årige kunggubben på en animerad film hos Studio Ghibli. Dock verkar hans nya film "How Do You Live?" mycket riktigt bli hans allra sista mästerverk och nu har producenten Toshio Suzuki förklarat varför i en intervju med Entertainment Weekly:
"Many directors make films on and on and on throughout their careers as they grow older. When Miyazaki came back and said that I want to make a film again, I actually said that's not a great idea because he's achieved so much already. You can't come back and do something that you've already done in the past, you have to do something different. One of the ideas that came out from that was, why not spend more time and spend more money [to make a film]? So, that's one of the new approaches."
Corona-viruset har inte satt stopp för magin hos studion, men det kan ta ett bra tag innan vi får se mer av detta spännande projekt då man enbart har färdigställt 36 minuter av filmen och man får ihop en minut per månad då man tecknar fler rutor i filmen. Det kan alltså dröja ytterligare tre år (!) innan världen får ta del av detta ambitiösa projekt:
"We are still hand-drawing everything, but it takes us more time to complete a film because we're drawing more frames. So, there are more drawings to draw than before. Back when we were making My Neighbor Totoro, we only had eight animators. Totoro we made in eight months. [For] the current film that Hayao Miyazaki is working on, we have 60 animators, but we are only able to come up with one minute of animation in a month. That means 12 months a year, you get 12 minutes worth of movie. Actually, we've been working on this film for three years, so that means we have 36 minutes completed so far. We're hoping it will finish in the next three years."
Suzuki nämnde också att Miyazakis son Gorō Miyazaki också arbetar på en datoranimerad film som är baserad på en engelsk historia, men mer kunde han inte avslöja för tillfället:
"Gorō's film is based on a book or story from England, and it's a story about a very wise girl. We've only announced it's going to be a new film, we haven't announced anything yet. So, that's as far as I can tell you now."
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