After the huge success of Weathering With You, fans are desperately waiting for the Makoto Shinkai’s next movie. Acclaimed Director recently went on twitter where he talked about his next movie.
He tweeted the following:
三年前の『天気の子』の制作ペースを追いかけながら、新作をすこしずつ組み立てています。物語もキャラクターもビジュアルも一息にイメージ出来てしまうような筋力は僕には全くなく、すこしずつ組んではまた崩すようなもどかしい時間ばかりが何ヶ月も続いています。もう初夏ですねえ、、、。 pic.twitter.com/czH0lXNEGs
— 新海誠 (@shinkaimakoto) May 18, 2020
“I’m gradually assembling my new work while following the pace of the production of ‘Weathering With You’ three years ago. I don’t have the brainpower to imagine the story, the characters, and the visuals all at once, so I’ve been working on it for months and months, trying to build it up and break it down again. It’s already early summer…”
On March 31 in a tweet, Makoto Shinkai revealed that he has been working on the screenplay of his new movie for three months. But he is really struggling at it.
He said, “I’ve been writing the screenplay for my new film for the past two months, and every day I don’t know what to think about now, what to say, or what we want to see in a few years. But I still write anyway.”
From the looks of it, Mokoto Shinkai has been working on his new project for more than 6 months now. So, the new movie is in its initial stage of pre-production and it most probably won’t be arriving until 2022.
His latest movie, Weathering with you Weathering with you debuted in Japan on July 19, 2019 debuted in Japan on July 19, 2019 and earned more than $192 million worldwide. Weathering with You is releasing on Blu-ray and DVD on May 27.
GKIDS who screened the movie in USA describes it as:
The summer of his high school freshman year, Hodaka runs away from his remote island home to Tokyo, and quickly finds himself pushed to his financial and personal limits. The weather is unusually gloomy and rainy every day, as if to suggest his future. He lives his days in isolation, but finally finds work as a writer for a mysterious occult magazine. Then one day, Hodaka meets Hina on a busy street corner. This bright and strong-willed girl possesses a strange and wonderful ability: the power to stop the rain and clear the sky…
It won the Best Animation Film Award at 43rd Japan Academy Film Festival and and best Anime Film Award at Tokyo Anime Film Festival. best Anime Film Award at Tokyo Anime Film Festival.
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