Studio Ghibli To Animate Mary Norton's The Borrowers
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The movie is based on British writer Mary Norton's novel "The Borrowers".
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Plan & Script: Miyazaki Hayao
Director: Yonebayashi Hiroaki (assistant graphic director of "Gedo Senki")
Theme music: Cécile Corbel
The original plan was made by Miyazaki and Takahata nearly forty years ago. Miyazaki changed the stage of the story from Britain in 1950's to Tokyo in 2010. A family of ten centimeter tall dwarfs live through mice's attacks, insecticide, and rattraps.
Source: Mainichi
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Nov 15, 2010 11:01 AM by RICEA42991
Sep 14, 2010 7:32 PM by GoodEnoughForMe
2 min trailer :3
Sep 14, 2010 3:23 PM by lifeaspect
Ghibli tries too hard whenever it decides on some Western classic. Why don't they go back to their "Mononoke Hime" epicness?
Jun 4, 2010 3:51 PM by indigosmanthus
Apr 21, 2010 11:27 AM by mirichan00
I really enjoyed Ponyo for those who are disregarding it. I've watched it with my parents, my boyfriend, and friends at least 3 times. You have to accept that Miyazaki in interviews himself says he wanted to create a movie the smaller children around him would enjoy that wasn't Totoro. I think he accomplished that and more. I think most of his movies surpasses your typical age restrictions from young to old.
I foresee no problem with the setting in Japan. I just viewed the animation teaser and it looks so pretty. I can't wait to see what they do with the characters and their little world.
Apr 21, 2010 10:15 AM by StarMasayume
Feb 10, 2010 12:12 AM by Yemi_Hikari
Small preview of the anime :)
I'm excited I enjoyed the story,live action film, and the littles plus I'm a huge Ghibli fan so I'm very excited to see this.
Feb 7, 2010 6:41 PM by Sigyn
Dec 20, 2009 9:30 AM by GeniusofIron
I'm disappointed that they changed the setting...after seeing Howl's Moving Castle (another book adaptation), I can't be excited for this. There were a lot of retarded changes in Howl's Moving Castle that dragged the story down (random unexplained war, useless old lady witch), most of which could have been avoided if they had at least attempted to stick to the books plot. Not to say the book was a masterpiece, but the plot probably would have flowed better if he hadn't tried so hard to make the story his own or whatever.
Recommendation: Stay away from Gedo Senki, another movie of Ghibli. the adaptation of "Wizard of Earthsea".
Howls's Moving Castle was a faithful masterpiece compared to that one.
Dec 19, 2009 9:44 AM by Ahenshihael
Dec 19, 2009 6:55 AM by Winter
Miyazaki changed the stage of the story from Britain in 1950's to Tokyo in 2010.
:/
Other than that, I'm sort of excited. I'm not a huge Ghibil fan but The Borrowers was a childhood favorite. Don't screw this up Miyazaki.
Dec 18, 2009 11:02 PM by LucySky
Why did they change the setting? It's an animated film, it would be really easy to set it in England.
Perhaps the producers lack knowledge of England and so they changed the setting to somewhere they're familiar with. If that is the reason then its a little lazy of Studio Ghibli. You would have thought they would have at least considered keeping it in England, especially after seeing the rich and wonderful setting of Katsuhiro Otomo's Steamboy.
Dec 18, 2009 5:00 PM by Touka
Dec 18, 2009 3:13 PM by VelvetEris
the borrowers should be awesome
Dec 17, 2009 7:37 PM by Corpse69
Well I still have to watch all the ones I haven't watched yet though...
Dec 17, 2009 9:59 AM by HooHiraiBunny
Very interesting!! I only hope that it won't be something for children ...
It's about little people who live under the floor boards and you hope it won't be for children?
Dec 17, 2009 4:47 AM by Touka
So..Miyazaki is now one of the 'BORROWERS'?
"Borrowing" Mary Norton's book and setting the film in Japan.
Some might (politely) call it concept misappropriation.
Is Japanese manga running out of original ideas?
No. It's just that even the Japanese are free to adapt other countries works into animation.
Dec 17, 2009 4:45 AM by ladyxzeus
Dec 16, 2009 5:18 PM by Retro8bit
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If they handle this the same way they handled Gedo Senki, it will be not worth watching at all.
gedo senki was a failure
Mar 6, 2011 10:05 PM by cardtrick