Your Name is the highest-grossing anime feature of all time and it is getting a Hollywood live action remake by J.J. Abrams.
Paramount Pictures and Abrams’ production company Bad Robot will be producing the adaptation in attempt to bring the story to a larger audience.
Released in 2016, Your Name follows the story of a boy and a girl who live in different parts of Japan and mysteriously swapped bodies.
They find themselves travelling through space and time on quest to find each other but ended up trying to save a town from disaster instead.
The original film received huge success and even received a 98 per cent rating on popular movie review website Rotten Tomatoes, making it the biggest movie in Japan so far.
Now, it looks like Abrams will be very busy for the next few years as he has reportedly already gathered a team to start work right away.
Apart from working with Lucasfilm on Star Wars: Episode IX and HBO’s Westworld, Abrams will be recreating Your Name with his regular collaborator Lindsey Weber and Genki Kawamura, the original producer of the anime.
He will also be teaming up with screenwriter Eric Heisserer who wrote Arrival and Toho, the company that produced the sci-fi love story in Japan.
Genki is very excited to work with “these incredible creators in bringing to audiences the Hollywood live-action version of Your Name” and said in a statement that “it feels like a dream”, just like the movie.
The fans, on the other hand, are not very enthusiastic about this news given the criticisms of recent anime adaptions, such as Ghost in the Shell.
Others wanted to make sure that it doesn't turn into another case of "white-washing" by Hollywood, you know, like how they cast Scarlett Johansson for a Japanese character in Ghost in the Shell, among others.
So what do you think? Will J.J. Abrams be able to do Your Name justice?
Paramount Pictures and Abrams’ production company Bad Robot will be producing the adaptation in attempt to bring the story to a larger audience.
Released in 2016, Your Name follows the story of a boy and a girl who live in different parts of Japan and mysteriously swapped bodies.
They find themselves travelling through space and time on quest to find each other but ended up trying to save a town from disaster instead.
The original film received huge success and even received a 98 per cent rating on popular movie review website Rotten Tomatoes, making it the biggest movie in Japan so far.
Now, it looks like Abrams will be very busy for the next few years as he has reportedly already gathered a team to start work right away.
Apart from working with Lucasfilm on Star Wars: Episode IX and HBO’s Westworld, Abrams will be recreating Your Name with his regular collaborator Lindsey Weber and Genki Kawamura, the original producer of the anime.
He will also be teaming up with screenwriter Eric Heisserer who wrote Arrival and Toho, the company that produced the sci-fi love story in Japan.
Genki is very excited to work with “these incredible creators in bringing to audiences the Hollywood live-action version of Your Name” and said in a statement that “it feels like a dream”, just like the movie.
The fans, on the other hand, are not very enthusiastic about this news given the criticisms of recent anime adaptions, such as Ghost in the Shell.
"your name would be better if it was directed by jj abrams" said no one ever https://t.co/XmOs3qTC7e
— nikko!!! (@NikkoGuy) September 28, 2017
Ugh! a live action version with #JJAbrams directing. #YourName #LeaveItAloneJJ pic.twitter.com/Y0Bk8MfEEA
— The Phenomenal One (@MovieSpoilerPod) September 28, 2017
im just gonna pretend jj abrams your name isnt happening and wont ever come to exist like what ppl do w the avatar movie
— LYN (@MAMETCHl) September 28, 2017
I feel like JJ Abrams saw all the lens flares in Your Name and frantically called everyone he could until he got the rights
— tia (@tia_gilles) September 29, 2017
Others wanted to make sure that it doesn't turn into another case of "white-washing" by Hollywood, you know, like how they cast Scarlett Johansson for a Japanese character in Ghost in the Shell, among others.
Congrats JJ Abrams and @bad_robot on getting the rights to #YourName. Word of advice: cast ASIAN or JAPANESE actors!https://t.co/edJUO9jBPr
— Joshua D. Hoh (@JoshuaDHoh) September 28, 2017
i was eh to the other recent anime adaptations because they were fairly universal
— ボブ (@weeabob) September 28, 2017
but Your Name is an inherently Japanese story.
So what do you think? Will J.J. Abrams be able to do Your Name justice?
