J.J. Abrams to turn acclaimed sci-fi anime Your Name into a live action film
J.J. Abrams and Paramount Pictures have announced they’ll be turning the critically acclaimed Japanese anime Your Name into a live-action film. Abrams’ production company Bad Robot and Paramount will work with Toho, the company that produced the original film. Your Name was released in 2016 and follows the story of a boy and a girl who find they have the ability to swap bodies, going on a quest to find each other through space and time as disaster looms. It was created, written, and directed by Makoto Shinkai, and the film was by far the biggest movie in Japan when it was released last year.
The sci-fi love story was the highest grossing anime film at the worldwide box office, earning $355 million on top of $303 million in Japan. “Just…
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