Editing Spirited Away (section)

===English dub===
[[John Lasseter]], [[Pixar]] animator and a fan and friend of Miyazaki, would often sit with his staff and watch Miyazaki's work when encountering story problems. After seeing ''Spirited Away'' Lasseter was ecstatic.<ref name="howe3" /> Upon hearing his reaction to the film, Disney CEO [[Michael Eisner]] asked Lasseter if he would be interested in introducing ''Spirited Away'' to an American audience. Lasseter obliged by agreeing to serve as the executive producer for the English adaptation. Following this, several others began to join the project: ''[[Beauty and the Beast (1991 film)|Beauty and the Beast]]'' co-director [[Kirk Wise]] and ''[[Aladdin (1992 Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' co-producer [[Donald W. Ernst]] joined Lasseter as director and producer of ''Spirited Away'', respectively.<ref name="howe3">[http://jimhillmedia.com/blogs/michael_howe/archive/2003/04/16/1393.aspx The Making of Hayao Miyazaki's "Spirited Away"&nbsp;– Part 3] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090317040600/http://jimhillmedia.com/blogs/michael_howe/archive/2003/04/16/1393.aspx |date=17 March 2009 }}. Jimhillmedia.com.</ref>{{sps|date=February 2025}} Screenwriters Cindy Davis Hewitt and Donald H. Hewitt penned the English-language dialogue, which they wrote in order to match the characters' original Japanese-language lip movements.<ref name=latimes/>

The cast of the film consists of [[Daveigh Chase]], [[Jason Marsden]], [[Suzanne Pleshette]] (in her final film role before her death in January 2008), [[Michael Chiklis]], [[Lauren Holly]], [[Susan Egan]], [[David Ogden Stiers]] and [[John Ratzenberger]] (a Pixar regular). Advertising was limited, with ''Spirited Away'' being mentioned in a small scrolling section of the film section of ''[[Disney.com]]''; Disney had sidelined their official website for ''Spirited Away''<ref name="howe3" /> and given the film a comparatively small promotional budget.<ref name=fps /> Marc Hairston writing for [[FPS Magazine]] argues that this was a justified response to Studio Ghibli's retention of the merchandising rights to the film and characters, which limited Disney's ability to properly market the film.<ref name=fps />