History Trivia / PorcoRosso

** Around 2011, Miyazaki originally had plans for a sequel to the film titled ''Porco Rosso: The Last Sortie'', which would've starred an aging Porco and be set in the Spanish Civil War in the late '30s. According to Miyazaki, however, the story was something he wrote during his off-time and was never put into production.

* GodNeverSaidThat: Around 2010, there was an announcement that Ghibli had plans for a sequel to the film titled ''Porco Rosso: The Last Sortie'' that would have been set in the Spanish Civil War and would have been directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi and written by Miyazaki. However, [[WhatCouldHaveBeen these plans never came to fruition]], seemingly stuck in DevelopmentHell. While this makes sense, there's one little misconception regarding the film that many missed. It was never actually a production in the first place. Now it is true that Miyazaki played around with a sequel, however, he states in the original interview that doing the story was simply a hobby of his, never saying anything about it being made into a film. The claim that Hiromasa Yonebayashi would be directing it is also false, as it comes from a [[https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/jul/07/first-sight-hiromasa profile of him on The Guardian]], with no sources to back up the info. In short, while Miyazaki had expressed interest in and played around with the concept of a sequel, it was never meant to be anything more than a concept.

* GodNeverSaidThat: Around 2010, there were stated to be plans for a sequel to the film titled ''Porco Rosso: The Last Sortie'' that would have been set in the Spanish Civil War and would have been directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi and written by Miyazaki. However, these plans never came to fruition, seemingly stuck in DevelopmentHell. While this makes sense, there's one little misconception regarding the film that many missed. It was never actually a production in the first place. Now it is true that Miyazaki played around with a sequel, however he states in the original interview that doing the story was simply a hobby of his, never saying anything about it being made into a film. The claim that Hiromasa Yonebayashi would be directing it is also false, as it comes from a [[https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/jul/07/first-sight-hiromasa profile of him on The Guardian]], with no sources to back up the info. In short, while Miyazaki had expressed interest in and played around with the concept of a sequel, it was never meant to be anything more than a concept.

* NonSingingVoice: Enforced in the dubs, which keep in Tokiko Kato's performance of "Le Temps des Cerises," as well as "Toki ni wa Mukashi no Hanashi wo," which she wrote.

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The ending song to the 1992 Stu

* SelfAdaptation: Just as was the case with Anime/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind, the film is based off of a manga Miyazaki made titled [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hik%C5%8Dtei_Jidai Hikōtei Jidai]].

* StudioHop: Starting with this film, Creator/{{Toho}} became the exclusive distributor for Creator/StudioGhibli's theatrical releases.

* GodNeverSaidThat: Around 2010, there were stated to be plans for a sequel to the film titled ''Porco Rosso: The Last Sortie'' that would have been set in the Spanish Civil War and would have been directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi and written by Miyazaki. However, these plans never came to fruition, seemingly stuck in DevelopmentHell. While this makes sense, there's one little misconception regarding the film that many missed at the time. It was never actually a production in the first place. Now it is true that Miyazaki played around with a sequel, however he states in the original interview that doing the story was simply a hobby of his, never saying anything about developing it into a proper film or it being in active production. The claim that Hiromasa Yonebayashi would be directing it is also false, having come from a [[https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/jul/07/first-sight-hiromasa-yonebayashi profile of him of The Guardian]], with no sources to back up the info. In short, the film never actually existed at any point.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: In the early 2010s, there were originally plans on doing a sequel to the film known as ''Porco Rosso: The Last Sortie'' which would have been set during the UsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWar and would have starred an aging Porco. The film was originally gonna be directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi and written by Creator/HayaoMiyazaki, however no news of the film popped up after awhile and seeing as none of Miyazaki's future projects are currently related to the film and Yonebayashi has since left Creator/StudioGhibli to form Creator/StudioPonoc, the film has most likely been shelved.

** The Disney dub featured Creator/MichaelKeaton as Porco, [[Film/ThePrincessBride Cary]] [[Film/RobinHoodMeninTights Elwes]] as Curtis, and Creator/BradGarrett as Boss.

* FakeAmerican: Englishman Cary Elwes does a mighty fine job as Curtis.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: In the early 2010s, there were originally plans on doing a sequel to the film known as ''Porco Rosso: The Last Sortie'' which would have been set during the UsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWar and would have starred an aging Porco. The film was originally gonna be directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi and written by Creator/HayaoMiyazaki, however no news of the film popped up after awhile and seeing as none of Miyazaki's future projects are currently related to the film and Yonebayashi has since left Creator/StudioGhibli to form Creator/StudioPonoc, the film has most likely been shelved.

* FakeAmerican: Englishman Cary Elwes does a mighty fine job as Curtis.

* EndOfAnAge: The last Studio Ghibli film to not have any CGI or digital coloring.

** The Disney dub featured Creator/MichaelKeaton as Porco, [[Film/ThePrincessBride Cary]] [[Film/SawI Elwes]] as Curtis, and Creator/BradGarrett as Boss.

* CelebrityVoiceActor: The Disney dub featured Creator/MichaelKeaton as Porco, [[Film/ThePrincessBride Cary]] [[Film/{{Saw}} Elwes]] as Curtis, and Creator/BradGarrett as Boss.

** The French dub gives us JeanReno as Porco.