The Boy and the Heron’s English solid contains Christian Bale and Dave Bautista

When Studio Ghibli’s The Boy and the Heron lastly hits North American theaters, it’ll be doing so with some star energy. Distributor GKIDS introduced the English voice solid for the animated function, which debuted in Japan earlier this 12 months, and it contains some large names: Christian Bale, Dave Bautista, Gemma Chan, Willem Dafoe, Karen Fukuhara, Mark Hamill, Robert Pattinson, and Florence Pugh.

The information got here alongside a brand new poster for the movie:

The Boy and the Heron initially debuted in Japan this summer season below the title How Do You Reside? and was initially shrouded in secrecy. Since then, nevertheless, photographs and trailers have been launched, giving theatergoers a greater sense of what’s occurring in director Hayao Miyazaki’s newest fantasy world. It hits theaters in North America on December eighth. And whereas it was broadly believed to be the final movie from the famed animator, Miyazaki seems to produce other concepts.