Chloé Zhao

We start crying or we go, oh, you know, our heart, like our throat is tight.

Our stomach turns.

Then we know it's the right take.

We didn't even have to understand every word, which is really magical.

It's making me think about Shakespeare completely different.

I wish I'm also one of them.

I thought about his sellability when I signed up.

Both Maggie's book and him.

It's a pretty strong IP we're dealing with here.

Why do you think that is?

Yeah.

Yeah.

You know, I just launched, I just made an announcement, me and my producing partner, Nick Gonda, we teamed up with Kodansha, which is the oldest and one of the largest manga, well, publishing house in Japan.

And they have everything from Akira to Ghost in the Shell to Attack on Titan, you know, their Sailor Moon manga.

We just teamed up with them to launch Kodansha Studios, which means that we will be developing live action adaptations of their IP in-house before it goes to the studios.

Manga is quite different than Western comics, particularly American comics.

Manga is heavily influenced by Shintoism, Japanese Shintoism.

And if you don't know what that is, it's believing that every object has a spirit, right?

Like this glass has a spirit within itself.

There has been quite a complicated relationship between