Hayao Miyazaki’s first solo-directed anime is being adapted to live-action as a stage play

The Future Boy Conan stage play will be directed by Israeli playwright Inbal Pinto, who previously directed stage adaptations Haruki Murakami’s The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Yoko Sano’s The Cat That Lived a Million Lives.

In recent years, we’ve seen a rapid rollout of live-action stage adaptations of the anime films of Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki.

This time, though, it’s not a Studio Ghibli movie that’s the source material, but a work from farther back in Miyazaki’s past: Future Boy Conan. Though he’s best known as a filmmaker, Miyazaki’s didn’t start out directing anime for the big screen.