Studio Ghibli Teases Twitter With A Potential Lucasfilm Collaboration

This morning, Academy Award winning Japanese animation studio Studio Ghibli dropped a major bombshell on Twitter by posting a video (see above) teasing at an upcoming partnership with out of this world American production company Lucasfilm. Fans and media outlets are already speculating about what this potential collaboration could be, with guesses from everything to a new Star Wars film to some sort of animated series.

While a feature length movie seems to be the most popular guess as to what this collaboration will produce, we are trying to not get too ahead of ourselves in the excitement, and should also be ready to expect something smaller scale, like an animated short done by Studio Ghibli that takes place in the Star Wars universe. And with Lucasfilm works at home on Disney+ and Studio Ghibli’s films on HBO Max, there’s also the question of which platform a potential collaboration would stream on (or perhaps whatever it is could be available on both).

Founded in 1985, Studio Ghibli has won international awe and acclaim for breathtaking Hayao Miyazaki-directed feature films like My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away, Howl’s Moving Castle, Ponyo, and Kiki’s Delivery Service. Lucasfilm has been around even longer, beginning with its 1971 founding by filmmaker George Lucas, who transported viewers to otherworldly locations in Star Wars films as well as took us on epic adventures with the Indiana Jones franchise and so much more. Since The Walt Disney Company acquired Lucasfilm in 2012, the studio has continued to create hit titles, especially streaming shows like The Mandalorian, Star Wars: Visions, and Andor.

Though the news of this unprecedented Studio Ghibli and Lucasfilm union ultimately dropped with little to no explanation or context, it immediately captured public attention and is generating excited buzz in a way that these two companies have managed to do again and again better than most over the years. With that in mind, whether the two mega powers’ collaboration ends up taking us to a fantastical version of our own reality or a galaxy far, far away, there’s no doubt that it’s going to take the world by storm.