Makoto Shinkai's your name. Film Gets Live-Action Hollywood Adaptation 

Makoto Shinkai\'s your name. Film Gets Live-Action Hollywood Adaptation

and J. J. Abrams\' Bad Robot Productions are producing a live-action Hollywood adaptation of

) and Lindsey Weber from Bad Robot will produce the film alongside

, the original film\'s producer. Academy Award-winning screenwriter Eric Heisserer (

) is penning the script. Paramount and Bad Robot will work with original producer

is a film 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."

Kawamura said in a statement, "Until I met with the people from Bad Robot, I thought this was just a dream, but it seems it\'s the real thing now. I can\'t think of a better team to bring

, which Eric Heisserer wrote, was one of the most moving sci-fi films I\'ve seen in recent years. I believe that Eric will depict the climax of

, which mixes science fiction and a love story, in the best possible way."

The film centers on Taki, a high school boy living in Tokyo who works part-time at a restaurant, and Mitsuha, a high school girl living in a town in rural Japan who wants to live in the city. One day, they begin switching bodies every time they sleep, and have to find a way to communicate with each other to manage each other\'s lives. Later, when they try to meet up physically for the first time, Taki discovers a secret that will lead to a race against time to try and save each other.

The original film opened in Japan in August 2016, and has become the fourth highest-grossing film of all time in Japan, the second highest-grossing Japanese film, and the second highest-grossing anime film.

The film opened in 92 countries and territories, and earned box-office achievements in South Korea, China, Hong Kong, Thailand, and Taiwan, in addition to Japan.

Films screened the film in North America, and it has earned an estimated US$5,017,246 in the United States and Canada as of July 27. Box Office Mojo estimates the film\'s worldwide total at US$355,298,270 as of July 27.

Source: Cinema Today, The Hollywood Reporter (Borys Kit)

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