Studio Ghibli distributor Toho is reporting that award-winning animator Hayao Miyazaki’s next film will be titled “Ponyo On A Cliff” or “Gake no Ue no Ponyo.” ICv2 has some of the details:
[The film is] the story of Sasuke, a five-year-old boy, and a Princess Goldfish (Ponyo) that wants to become human. Production on the film began last October and it is slated to be released in the summer of 2008. Miyazaki is creating the storyboards himself in watercolors and it is thought that the feature will be produced in the traditional hand-drawn 2-D manner.
Depending on where your read, the boy is based on Miyazaki’s grandson or on his own son Goro, director of “Tales from Earthsea.” You can find more information here and here.
