Your Name
Live - activeness adaptations of anime seem to be the late Hollywood trend asYour Namehas just been announced to be in development from J.J. Abrams and Paramount Pictures . Your NameorKimi No Na Wais a 2016 acclaim ( 98 per centum on Rotten Tomatoes ) Nipponese quicken dramatic play that rent the world by storm . Written and directed by Makoto Shinkai ( The Garden of Words , Journey to Agartha),Your Nametells the story of a high school girl in rural Japan and a high-pitched school male child in Tokyo who swapped body .
Your Namewasn’t just a hit among critics , but a vast fiscal success as well , raking in over $ 355.2 million worldwide , make it the highest - grossing Japanese film of all time . Your Nameheld the top spot in the Japanese box government agency for 12 non - consecutive week . However , it seems like it come and went without much fanfare in the United States , gross just $ 5 million dollars domestically , more or less lower than Hayao Miyazaki’sThe Wind Rises . But perhaps this latest announcement could ignite curiosity in the U.S. and prompt people to catch the original Nipponese animated film .
In a report byDeadline , Paramount Pictures and Bad Robot have decided to collaborate with Japan - based Toho Co. to bringYour Nameto worldwide audience as a live - action feature pic . Abrams – managing director ofStar war : The Force Awakens– and Lindsey Weber will be producing for Bad Robot alongside Genki Kawamura , producer of the original film .
Naturally , this proclamation has since received mixed reactions , with many fans securely against the idea of a Hollywood live - legal action variant of this film . It ’s easy to empathize where fan of the original are make out from , especially since many agree that the live - action at law adaptations of popular animeGhost in the ShellandDeath Notedid not do the source materials justice , taking dense complex taradiddle and turning them into standard Hollywood blockbusters . However , the typesetter’s case may be different here as this appear to be a proper collaboration between Hollywood and Japanese picture palace . Even the writer and director of the original film expresses his upheaval for this film . He tell :
" [ This will be ] created with the innate imaginations of a Japanese squad and put together in a domesticated metier . When such a body of work is imbued with Hollywood filmmaking , we may see new possibilities that we had been totally unaware of – I am search forward to the live - action film with excited prediction . "
While the live - action adaption still does n’t have a conductor attached , Academy Award nomineeEric Heisserer ( Arrival)is set to pen the script . Heisserer ’s oeuvre is n’t always the good , though . While many regardArrivalas one of the best sci - fi picture show to ever grace the great screen , his previous four films , Hours , The Thing , Final Destination 5andLights Outreceived mediocre followup from critics . However , under the direction of other gifted individual like Abrams , Shinkai and Kawamura , Heisserer should be able to write another splendid musical composition .
As of right now , there is no news regarding the mold and discharge particular date of this motion picture . It is also ill-defined as of now if the picture will be set in Japan with Nipponese characters and actors or jell in the United States , with American ( or Asian American ) actors .
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Source : Deadline
