¡°Your Name.,¡± one of the highest-grossing Japanese anime films in history, will be reborn as a live-action Hollywood remake.
Makoto Shinkai¡¯s body-swapping sci-fi love story, released last year, will be adapted by Paramount Pictures and J.J. Abrams¡¯ Bad Robot Productions, the film¡¯s original producers said Thursday.
¡± ¡®Your Name.¡¯ is a film created with the innate imaginations of a Japanese team and put together in a domestic medium,¡± Shinkai said in a statement released by Japanese distributor Toho Co. ¡°When such a work is imbued with Hollywood filmmaking, we may see new possibilities that we had been completely unaware of ¡ª I am looking forward to the live-action film with excited anticipation.¡±
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