Studio Ghibli Has No Next Film Lined Up, New CEO Says
The report clarifies that Ghibli's leadership is comfortable with an unplanned future, prioritizing preservation over new projects while Miyazaki remains active.
Reporting from 1 source: Cartoon Brew.
Bloomberg reports that Studio Ghibli has no next feature in development more than two and a half years after The Boy and the Heron. New president and CEO Kenichi Yoda says the studio will not force a film without the right idea. Hayao Miyazaki, 85, still comes to work daily, though no one knows what he is working on.
Kenichi Yoda, who became CEO in June, told Bloomberg that Ghibli's founders have never cared much for market research, investors, or release calendars. If the right idea is not there, the studio will not force a film into production.
Hayao Miyazaki, now 85, still shows up to work every day, but Yoda says only he knows what he is working on. Goro Miyazaki called the chance of an outside director taking over while his father is around "absolutely impossible," and Yoda added that "any sane animation director would not come close to this castle."
On AI, Goro said the studio is not negative about the technology itself, and suggested Isao Takahata would have been among the first to experiment with it. Yoda described his job as protecting what exists: "What matters is that nothing changes."
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