Hvad er filmen chihiro og heksene baseret på?
Miyazaki skrev manuskriptet, efter at han havde besluttet, at filmen skulle være baseret på sin vens 10-årige datter, Seiji Okuda, som kom på besøg i hans hus hver sommer. På det tidspunkt var Miyazaki i gang med at udvikle to personlige projekter, men de blev afvist. Med et budget på 19 millioner dollars begyndte produktionen af Spirited Away i 2000. Pixar-direktør John Lasseter, der er fan af Miyazaki, blev kontaktet af Walt Disney Pictures for at overvåge en engelsk oversættelse til filmens nordamerikanske udgivelse. Lasseter hyrede Kirk Wise som instruktør og Donald W. Ernst som producer af tilpasningen. Manuskriptforfatterne Cindy Davis Hewitt og Donald H. Hewitt skrev den engelsksprogede dialog, som de skrev for at matche karakterernes originale japanske læbebebevægelser.
Miyazaki wrote the script after he decided the film would be based on the 10-year-old daughter of his friend, associate producer Seiji Okuda, who came to visit his house each summer. At the time, Miyazaki was developing two personal projects, but they were rejected. With a budget of US$19 million, production of Spirited Away began in 2000. Pixar director John Lasseter, a fan of Miyazaki, was approached by Walt Disney Pictures to supervise an English language translation for the film's North American release. Lasseter hired Kirk Wise as director and Donald W. Ernst as producer of the adaptation. Screenwriters Cindy Davis Hewitt and Donald H. Hewitt wrote the English language dialogue, which they wrote to match the characters' original Japanese language lip movements.
Spirited Away