Robert Pattinson is an angry bird in the English trailer for Hayao Miyazakis new film

Its been months since Hayao Miyazakis latest (and maybe final? or maybe not!) anime movie, The Boy and the Heron, debuted in Japan, and fans of Miyazakis Studio Ghibli from other countries, where the film has been making the festival rounds, have eagerly been waiting for their chance to see it. Ahead of the movies December release in U.S. theaters, promotion has been rolling out slowly: First, with the movies initial Japanese-language teaser trailer, then the announcement of the voice cast for the English dub, and now the first English-language trailer, featuring the voices of Robert Pattinson, Dave Bautista, Florence Pugh, and others.

Chief among the group is Robert Pattinson, doing a voice far off from his surly Batman growl in the title role as the grey heron. The Boy and the Heron referred to in Japan as How Do You Live? after the Japanese childrens literature classic it references follows a boy into a strange, surreal fantasy world after his mother dies. A cranky, smug, deceitful heron offers to serve as his guide, but its clear it has its own agenda, and its own amusements.

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