It’s been more than a year since the announcement that anime director Makoto Shinkai’s "your name." is being remade as a Hollywood live-action movie, with JJ Abrams serving as producer and Eric Heisserer as screenwriter. Since then, however, there’s been no concrete news on the project’s status,
It’s been more than a year since the announcement that anime director Makoto Shinkai’s „your name.“ is being remade as a Hollywood live-action movie, with JJ Abrams serving as producer and Eric Heisserer as screenwriter. Since then, however, there’s been no concrete news on the project’s status, which might have left some people wondering if it had died on the vine like so many would-be Western adaptations of anime that have come before.
But in a recent interview with website /Film’s Fred Topet, Heisserer reaffirmed that the Hollywood „your name.“ is still very much on, and even boldly asserted that Americanization of the story is something that’s going to happen in the transition.
While the bulk of the interview is devoted to the recently released Netflix thriller „Bird Box“ (which Heisserer wrote), when he’s asked what else he’s working on, Heisserer says “I’m still working on the ‚your name.‘ adaptation, the anime adaptation for [JJ Abram’s] ‚Bad Robot‘ and Paramount.”
When asked if adapting the biggest Japanese animated hit in decades to American live-action is a challenge, Heisserer says that it is, but that it’s an “interesting” one, before going on to say: “You have to find the best iteration of that story based on the fact that the ‚your name.
