Porco Rosso: The Last Sortie
It looks like Hayao Miyazaki might be making a sequel to Porco Rosso:
The next Ghibli film by a young director has a girl as the leading character, and Suzuki suggested that Miyazaki can make a film after that one as a “hobby.” Miyazaki wants to make “Porco Rosso: The Last Sortie,” his previously introduced sequel idea which would be set during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Miyazaki’s first Porco Rosso film was set between World War I and World War II.
The July 2009 issue of Model Graphix magazine described the “Porco Rosso: The Last Sortie” concept in which the title character pilots a Savoia-Marchetti SM.79 bomber from Italy. Miyazaki drew an irregularly serialized collection of manga and graphical essays called Zassō Note (Daydream Data Notes) in the same magazine from 1984 to 1992. Viz republished “Hikōtei Jidai” (The Age of the Flying Boat), Zassō Note’s 1990 prototype manga story for Miyazaki’s Porco Rosso film, in English in Animerica Magazine.
A picture of an SM.79 bomber, which would replace the red plane used in the original movie:
The SM.79 bombers that participated in the Spanish Civil War were used by Italian “volunteers” fighting in support of Franco’s nationalists. In the first film, Porco said, “I’d much rather be a pig than a fascist,” so I’m guessing he won’t be fighting alongside the other Italian pilots.
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