Does Studio Ghibli have a collaboration with Lucasfilm in store?

A video of just 15 seconds, posted on Twitter: that was enough to send fans of Studio Ghibli into raptures. The mythical Japanese animation studio founded among others by Hayao Miyazaki, in fact, has published a short sequence on the social network of chirps in which you see first the classic animated logo of Lucasfilm that appears before each of its production and then a still image representing the Studio Ghibli logo itself with the classic illustration of My Neighbor Totoro in the background. What does it mean? It is too early to know, also because the social post was not accompanied by any official communication, yet hypotheses are already chasing on the web.

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The first thought, and to tell the truth also the first hope, is that it is indeed a collaboration between the two realities. Star Wars immediately comes to mind. For some time, in fact, the universe of Star Wars has been expanding by exploring new narrative dimensions, including that of animation. And it is no coincidence that among the greatest sources of inspiration of George Lucas when in the seventies he imagined this saga there were also masterpieces of Japanese culture such as Kurosawa's films. There would also be the right opportunity: soon the second season of Star Wars: Visions will arrive on Disney +, an anthology of animated shorts entrusted to the most varied animation studios in the world. Maybe Studio Ghibli was involved to make one of the episodes of this new cycle.

Probable, even if there are those who are hoping for something more: perhaps a film or an entire series that bears the characteristic distinctive style made immortal by works such as The Enchanted City, Princess Mononoke and The Moving Castle of Howl. But perhaps we are reaching too hasty conclusions: the world of Lucasfilm, in fact, is quite vast and also includes other franchises such as Indiana Jones (whose fifth chapter will debut next summer) or Willow, whose sequel series is scheduled on Disney + starting November 30th. Could this hypothetical joint project be about promoting one of these two projects? The conditionals and question marks, in the absence of other details, are a must, while we are waiting for updates, curious as the Nerini of the dark.