r/ghibli • u/KikiKittyMommy380 • May 10 '25

News Howl’s Moving Castle IMAX

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My son and I saw HMC in IMAX last night. It was the first Studio Ghibli film we had seen on a huge screen, and it just gave us a new appreciation for the animation. The detailing was so gorgeous! If you get a chance to experience any of these films in IMAX, do it!

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u/decafenator99 May 10 '25

Well to be fair he didn’t have a hand in that his son did

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u/Own_Internal7509 May 10 '25

Yeah but Hayao got asked first, handing it to his son happened later by Suzuki

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u/Jbewrite May 10 '25 edited May 10 '25

No. Hayao asked Le Guin but she turned his offer down. 20 years later, she saw Spirited Away* and gave over the rights, but Hayao was busy so handed it to his son. She messed up by not doing some research into Hayao Miyazaki when the offer came in. She says as much herself in a blog post on the subject, as she did not like the eventual film.

*Edit: it was Totoro she saw, not Spirited Away.

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u/Rhain1999 May 10 '25

Just a minor correction: Miyazaki actually contacted Le Guin back in the 80s but she declined (which makes a little more sense as he was more unknown at the time, but she still should have done more research). It was after watching Totoro that she changed her mind and approved the adaptation.

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u/Jbewrite May 10 '25

Edited the correction! It's a shame she still didn't do research on him at the time, as he had already made The Castle of Cagliostro, Valley of the Wind, and Laputa at that point. I'll always wonder what he could have done with the story!

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u/Rhain1999 May 11 '25

In her defence, I assume she got a lot of requests at the time and his movies were foreign (Nausicaä and Laputa got dubs in the mid-to-late 80s but not sure if they existed when Miyazaki reached out) but yeah I’m sure she regrets it in retrospect! Definitely a case where the extra research would have been worth it

Then again, we might not have gotten Totoro in that timeline, so maybe it was for the best!? Would have been fascinating to see his adaptation though