Hayao Miyazaki, considered by some to be the Japanese Walt Disney, is rumoured to be working on a sequel to his 1992 film Porco Rosso, about an Italian World War I flying ace who gets magically turned into a pig.
For anyone familiar with Miyazaki, you’ll know that his work is always startlingly original and a pleasure to watch. In fact, it’s practically the only “anime” I still keep up with these days because he’s such an impressive filmmaker.
The sequel to the film will be called Porco Rosso: The Last Sortie, and it will be set during the Spanish Civil War. He goes on to say it should be a very interesting film, and also had this to say in the interview,
“I’m not thinking about a movie of a girl.”
“I think that I must think about only a movie of a boy.”
“I do not need to make a movie if it is not a tragic story of a boy.”
“So I want to escape to Porco Rosso: The Last Sortie. I have all its materials.”
“If next two films succeed and [studio president Toshio] Suzuki-san lets me make it (Porco) while saying, ‘It cannot be helped because it’s a hobby of the old man’, I’m happy. It’s my hobby.”
For those not familiar with Miyazaki, I say shame on you. All of his films are on Netflix and are widely available everywhere. His are also some of the few Anime films that get wide American theatrical releases, so let’s hope this happens and we can see it on the big screen.
Here’s a trailer to Porco Rosso: