lucasfilm announced that Studio Ghibli produced a short film of the franchise starwars. Zen: Grogu and the Creatures from studio ghibli will debut tomorrow November 12, 2022 in Disney Plus.
Veteran animator and character designer Katsuya Kondo (Kiki: home deliveries, I can hear the sea, Ponyo and the secret of the little mermaid), while the music was composed by Oscar winner Ludwig Göransson (Black Panther, The Mandalorian).
As its title suggests, the hand-drawn short film will bring together the lovable Grogu, from The Mandalorianwith the anthropomorphized coal dust bunnies of Spirited Away (2021), Hayao Miyazaki’s Academy Award-winning play.
It is worth mentioning that this November 12 will commemorate the third anniversary of the launch of the series The Mandalorian.
The unexpected collaboration you were waiting for 🤯#Zen: Grogu and the Studio Ghibli Creatures, a hand-drawn animated short by Studio Ghibli, premieres tomorrow on #DisneyPlus. pic.twitter.com/e8RqZcvE99
— Disney+ Latin America (@disneyplusla) November 12, 2022
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The animation house famous for producing some of Miyazaki’s most acclaimed films (Spirited Away, princess mononoke, the amazing wandering castle) and Isao Takahata (The fireflies’s grave, Pompoko, The Tale of Princess Kaguya) turned heads both for fans of Japanese animation and for the production company chaired by Kathleen Kennedy, with a couple of tweets in the previous days.
A first publication, on Thursday, November 10, showed a video of just 15 seconds that opened with the Lucasfilm logo, followed immediately by the Studio Ghibli logo. And so speculation began about the nature of the collaboration.
— スタジオジブリ STUDIO GHIBLI (@JP_GHIBLI) November 10, 2022
This Friday Ghibli shared a photo of a Grogu figure, with master Hayao Miyazaki in the background. Then, it became clearer that the project in question was the rumored short film Zen: Grogu and the Creatures from Studio Ghibli.
— スタジオジブリ STUDIO GHIBLI (@JP_GHIBLI) November 11, 2022
We remind you that the filmography of Studio Ghibli is available through Netflix in Latin America.