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NEWS: Hayao Miyazaki's Next Film Is 15% Complete After 3.5 Years

Love his movies but his attitude has always been awful. He is only holding the studio back at this point. He needs to retire so the rest of the studio staff members decide what to do with the studio company.

whats the freaking point of watching a movie that will be out in 2030 and was announced 3 years ago? :/

Steamboy (anime movie) took 10 years to make.

Five years into the project, the Studio Ghibli team only had 30 minutes of storyboard. The problem, according to Nishimura was the director, who if he had it all his way would keep production going well into the 2020s. So the studio decided to release the film simultaneously in Japan with fellow Studio Ghibli founder Hayao Miyazaki's The Wind Rises in 2013; a move that stirred Takahata into action.

The animation powerhouse's current head says it is considering the end of movie productions following the retirement of Hayao Miyazaki and the underperformance of its latest releases. (...) The Tale of Princess Kaguya, Takahata's production swansong, reportedly did not cover its production budget after its release in December.

After spending eight years and over five billion yen budget, the film was finally released in Japan on November 23, 2013. Unfortunately, it became a box office failure earning only 2.47 billion yen in the Japanese box office (still, it was much better than his previous film in 1999, My Neighbors The Yamadas with 820 million yen).

Suzuki acknowledged that some have labeled Miyazaki's upcoming film as his last. However, Suzuki said, "I don't believe it. As long as he lives, [Miyazaki] will probably continue to make films."

lucio542 wrote:

Don't saying that will happen ( and i really don't want) but he knows that he have already almost 80?....If It take so much he can really die in half of the way.

He is 78. Assuming the pace stays like this and doesn't pick up, he'll be ~98 by the time this is finished...