And I'm like, 'I have never seen anything like this. And now it's raining and the surface is slippery and wet. 'But the moment that changed everything for me was the scene where you're looking at this large pebble. 'I had zero plans to do it,' Gaiman tells BBC Culture. – 11 of the best films to watch this July – The film that captures millennials' greatest fear So, I'm calling you.' Miramax, a then-subsidiary of Disney, had acquired the rights to distribute Princess Mononoke, the newest film from Japanese animation studio Studio Ghibli, in the United States, and Weinstein wanted to fly Gaiman to Los Angeles to watch a cut of the movie. I called Quentin Tarantino and said, 'Quentin, will you do the English language script?' And he said, you don't want me, you want Gaiman.
So I thought I've got to get the best to do it. 'This animated film, Princess Mononoke,' Gaiman recalls him saying, 'it's the biggest thing in Japan right now.
In 1997, the British fantasy author Neil Gaiman received a call out of the blue from then-head of Miramax, Harvey Weinstein.
