I'm reading the Song of Fire and Ice series right now, so for those of you in the know, I sort of thought I'd seen it all in terms of awful parent-child dynamics. But reading about Goro Miyazaki's film adaptation of Tales from Earthsea, that sounds worse. Can you imagine being the son of an animator with a deity-like reputation who declares that he doesn't think you should direct your first animated feature, then when you make it, the author of the book you're adapting says that your production values don't live up to your father's standards, and you win Worst Movie and Worst Director awards in your home country? I didn't think so. It almost makes me want to like the movie just to buck the guy up a bit. But I have to say it's not promising that there's, um, no real dialogue in the trailer:
It does make me thing that maybe Studio Ghibli should do a Song of the Lioness adaptation. But maybe stick with the father, rather than the son.