WOMAN OF THE DUNES
ichael Leader: As co-hosts of the podcast Ghibliotheque, and now co-authors of the book of the same name, Jake and I are absolute professionals at shoehorning the films of Studio Ghibli into any conversation. You don’t need to ask us twice to chart the overlaps, crossovers and potential parallels between Frank Herbert’s 1965 literary space opera ‘Dune’ and Miyazaki’s own eco sci-fi epic , from 1984. And besides, the connections are clear, and help illuminate not just both works, but the industrial engines behind their complicated journeys to the big screen, too. Honest.
