Your Name
The beloved 2017 Makoto Shinkai animated film, Your Name, is getting a Hollywood makeover. Your Name is an award-winning love story about two high schoolers that have their bodies swapped whenever they go to sleep. According to Deadline, J.J. Abrams will produce the live-action film alongside Genki Kawamura, the anime’s original producer. In a 2017 press event, Shinkai equated the news of the Your Name live-action adaptation to experiencing one’s children leaving home.
“I often compare my works to my children but I don’t have much interest in how my kids will turn out,” Shinkai said. “There was the announcement that Hollywood was making [a Your Name movie]. However, while at the same time looking forward to it, I felt like this was the beginning of a journey, and what kind of adult it would be was a question for the work itself.”
