Your Name Anime Gets a Live Action Remake by JJ Abrams. Writer director Makoto Shinkais hit anime Your Name is one of Japans best performing films ever made with a total worldwide box office of over 3. Its the 4th highest grossing film in Japan itself, 7th among animated films worldwide, and 1 when it comes to anime, having taken over the spot from Spirited Away. Though it only took in about 5 million on domestic shores, Your Name clearly became an international sensation. Thats unsurprising considering that the film is a touching drama, an engrossing romance, and a heartfelt comedy, but it is surprising since Your Name is also a body switching story between a male and female high school student that finds Japanese traditional and modern ways of living coming into conflict in original ways. Serious Sam 1 The Second Encounter Tpb. It should have been an impossible balance to maintain, but Your Name did it expertly well, thanks in big part to its medium as an anime. So now, of course, J. J. Abrams wants to turn Your Name into a live action film. Toho Co. has partnered up with Paramount Pictures and Bad Robot to bring Your Name to big screens with Oscar nominated screenwriter Eric Heisserer Arrival penning the adaptation. Makoto Shinkai, who wrote the original novel before adapting it and directing the anime, is apparently on board, saying Your Name was created with the innate imaginations of a Japanese team and put together in a domestic medium. When such a work is imbued with Hollywood filmmaking, we may see new possibilities that we had been completely unaware of I am looking forward to the live action film with excited anticipation. Image via Toho. Lindsey Weber will produce for Bad Robot alongside Abrams, with Genki Kawamura, returning to produce after his role as producer of the original film. Toho handles distribution of the film in Japan. Kawamura was all in as well, saying Just like in the film it feels like a dream. Mr. Abrams and his team have captivated audiences in their masterful reinvention of known properties. And Mitsuha and Taki have found a perfect narrator, Mr. Heisserer, to tell their sci fi infused love story, which gave the film such drive. The meetings so far have been creatively stimulating with fantastic ideas that no doubt will make for a great movie. I am greatly honored to work with these incredible creators in bringing to audiences the Hollywood live action version of Your Name. Im confident that Abrams and Heisserer are up to the task, but Im not so sure the task is a necessary one to begin with. The anime obviously achieved a high level of success by delivering a fantastic story in a medium that perfectly befits the tale the live action adaptation feels like a hollow attempt to cash in on its success. Hopefully Paramount has learned something from the white washing controversy surrounding Ghost in the Shell, among other anime adaptations, but something tells me that the Americanized version of Your Name will not be casting Japanese leads. Id love to be proven wrong here. Worse yet, an Americanization of Your Name means the likely loss of the Japanese cultural traditions and history, and the very specific aspects of Tokyo living, things which make the story even richer. Hopefully Abrams, Heisserer, and the studios will get this one right and not just use it as a whitewashed cash grab. Purple71/v4/20/05/bf/2005bff4-66e9-d6a4-24a0-24e3d5c34eeb/screen800x500.jpeg' alt='Express Scribe Version' title='Express Scribe Version' />Use the documentation on this site to learn how to implement PayPal payment services. Choose the solution that bests suits your needs from the Featured documentation. How I use the Livescribe 3 Pen in my law practice, its benefits and drawbacks. In the meantime, you can enjoy the original hit anime Your Name now, especially since Ive left the craziest twists and cant miss moments out of this write up. For more, check out my review. And if youve already seen the film, Id love to know your thoughts on the live action adaptationLet us know in the comments below.