Studio Ghibli Is Teaming Up With Lucasfilm (polygon.com) 16
Studio Ghibli, the beloved animation producer behind worldwide hits like Spirited Away, Ponyo, My Neighbor Totoro, and Grave of the Fireflies, is teaming up with Lucasfilm, home to the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises, for a mysterious new project. Polygon reports: On Thursday, the Japanese studio tweeted a cryptic video teaser, with the Lucasfilm and Studio Ghibli logos back to back and... maddeningly nothing else. The video is silent, so there are no John Williams-penned themes to work from here. But suffice it to say, the teaser is most likely for an animated project based on a Lucasfilm property, and Star Wars seems like a safe bet. Lucasfilm and Disney have multiple animated Star Wars series, including the recently released Tales of the Jedi and -- the most likely candidate for Studio Ghibli -- Star Wars: Visions.
A second season of Star Wars: Visions is coming to Disney Plus in spring 2023. And while Disney and Lucasfilm have not revealed much about who is contributing to it, Star Wars: Visions Volume 2 is pitched as a "global tour, celebrating the incredible animation happening across countries and cultures."
A second season of Star Wars: Visions is coming to Disney Plus in spring 2023. And while Disney and Lucasfilm have not revealed much about who is contributing to it, Star Wars: Visions Volume 2 is pitched as a "global tour, celebrating the incredible animation happening across countries and cultures."
If you work with Disney... (Score:3)
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Re: If you work with Disney... (Score:2)
It depends on whether you're getting a cut of the gross.
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Royalties? Have you never heard about Hollywood accounting [wikipedia.org]?
"The Mouse" is infamous in the movie industry about being bad to deal with. But they are often too big to turn down.
I trust Ghibli, I do not trust Disney (Score:3)
Let's hope Ghibli keeps its magic, Disney is just a giant machine of churning out formulas now.
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The first season of Star Wars: Visions was crap. Disney seems to think that the fans will lap up anything involving a random Jedi.
Tales of the Jedi was rubbish as well. Poor quality animation, very simple and uninteresting stories that felt padded out even with the short run times they had.
The current live action series, Andor, flips between fantastic and dire on a episode-by-episode basis. When it's good it's really good.
To coin a phrase, I have a bad feeling about this.
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The first season of Star Wars: Visions was crap. Disney seems to think that the fans will lap up anything involving a random Jedi.
That's funny because Visions is one of Disney's few Star Wars productions I felt they got right. Not a massive hit in my book mind you but the term "refreshing" quickly comes to mind when I think of Visions and I will likely watch the series again which is something I can't say about most Star Wars productions made after the 80's. Seems opinions vary with the general public https://www.rottentomatoes.com... [rottentomatoes.com] but critically Visions was extremely well received as well.
For me I think a big part of Visions was
Oh shit (Score:5, Insightful)
What Ghibli has been doing until now is unique and lovely and my honest opinion is Miyazaki and Takahata deserve to share a Nobel prize in literature. I hope Ghibli doesn't change radically of direction, we already have plenty of Disney-style movies and we don't have enough yet of Ghibli-style stories.
Dread Lord Cthulhu, the retcons.... (Score:2)
"In which Kiki discovers she is Force sensitive and immediately Force-chokes a few of the less agreeable townsfolk"
"Totoro: Jedi Knight"
"Darth Toyo"
(shudders)
Monkey Island OVA? (Score:2)
Someone didn't do their homework. (Score:2)
I'm guessing Polygon.com's Michael McWhartor has never seen Grave of the Fireflies. It's not the image you want to conjure up while writing an upbeat puff piece.