Hear Robert Pattinson as an angry bird in Hayao Miyazaki’s new movie

It’s been months since Hayao Miyazaki’s latest (and maybe final? The last Hayao miyazaki movie (maybe final?) was released in the past few months. The anime movie The Boy And the Heron, debuted in Japan, and fans of Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli from other countries, where the film has been making the festival rounds, have eagerly been waiting for their chance to see it. Ahead of the movie’s December release in U.S. theaters, promotion has been rolling out slowly: First, with the movie’s initial Japanese-language teaser trailer, then the announcement of the voice cast for the English dub, and now the first English-language trailer, featuring the voices of Robert Pattinson, Dave Bautista, Florence Pugh, and others.

Robert Pattinson is the leader of the group, delivering a tone that’s far from the surly Batman grunt he used in his title role. The Boy And the Heron — referred to in Japan as How do you live? after the Japanese children’s literature classic it references — follows a boy into a strange, surreal fantasy world after his mother dies. A cranky, smug, deceitful heron offers to serve as his guide, but it’s clear it has its own agenda, and its own amusements.

The teaser includes clips of Bautista in the role of The Parakeet King. Pugh plays Kiriko as a supporting character. There are other voices, which may be harder to recognize, that fans will likely try to crack. Christian Bale is joined by Gemma Chan and Karen Fukuhara. Mark Hamill also appears, as does Willem Dafoe. Mamoudou athie, Dan Stevens and Tony Revolori are all part of the full cast.

The Boy And the HeronArriving in American theatres on the 8th of December.