{"id":60612,"date":"2023-12-10T10:44:08","date_gmt":"2023-12-10T10:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/10\/the-boy-and-the-heron-how-gkids-pulled-off-one-of-the-most-important-dubs-in-anime-history\/"},"modified":"2023-12-10T10:44:08","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T10:44:08","slug":"the-boy-and-the-heron-how-gkids-pulled-off-one-of-the-most-important-dubs-in-anime-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/10\/the-boy-and-the-heron-how-gkids-pulled-off-one-of-the-most-important-dubs-in-anime-history\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Boy and the Heron\u2019: How GKIDS Pulled Off One of the Most Important Dubs in Anime History"},"content":{"rendered":"


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We’re taking you inside the story of how an American animation company laid it all on the line to make the English-language version of Hayao Miyazaki’s “last” film a devastatingly beautiful must-see event: https:\/\/t.co\/xZFh5KNDFh<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/7EhsNBGHRa<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u2022 The English language version came together rather quickly. It was cast and recorded in Sept. and Oct. 2023.<\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cThey told us that casting was a really important aspect in regards to how they conceive this movie as being a love letter to the studio,\u201d Jesteadt said, \u201cand as perhaps the final Miyazaki film that there would effectively be cameos from people that audiences might recognize as voice actors from previous films. It was a big deal for them that the actor who played Howl in \u2018Howl\u2019s Moving Castle\u2019 returned as Mahito\u2019s father, and they told us it would be great if we were able to do a similar stunt. So we tried to do that as much as possible with people who had appeared in previous dubs.\u201d So Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, and Mark Hamill came back for roles.\u00a0<\/p>\n

[<\/span><\/svg>Spoiler (click to open)<\/a><\/b>]<\/span><\/span>\u2022 The Japanese actor for the Heron is played by a young, 30-year-old hot singer-actor guy named Masaki Suda, and they wanted the English-dub actor to reflect that, so they cast Robert Pattinson. He was “very, very excited about being presented with a role as complicated and nuanced as this one.”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

[<\/span><\/svg>Spoiler (click to open)<\/a><\/b>]<\/span><\/span>\u2022 Dan Stevens is such a devoted Ghibli fan that he agreed to come back and deliver a few lines as one of the many different henchbirds for the Parakeet King just so he can see the film in advance.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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[<\/span><\/svg>Spoiler (click to open)<\/a><\/b>]<\/span><\/span>\u2022 Karen Fukuhara previously worked with Sinterniklaas, voice director, on Star Wars Visions<\/em> so she was recommended for a role. She is the only Japanese-speaker in the English cast and was able to emulate the Japanese actor too well, that it clashed with the other voices. She was encouraged to make it American and was able to bring a more emotional\/vulnerable twist to the recording.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

[<\/span><\/svg>Spoiler (click to open)<\/a><\/b>]<\/span><\/span>\u2022 The original title for the film is How Do You Live? <\/em>But Toshio Suzuki, producer, asked for a title change. There was a desire to move away from the name of the book, as people were constantly mistaking the movie for an adaptation.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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