Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Lee Isaac Chung will rewrite and direct Paramount, Bad Robot and Toho’s live-action adaptation of Your Name, the reimagined adaptation of the 2016 animated romantic fantasy drama film which was an instant classic in Japan.
Chung will work off the draft by Emily V. Gordon. The script was originally written by Arrival screenwriter Eric Heisserer.Bad Robot’s J.J.
Abrams will produce along with Genki Kawamura, who produced the original. Toho will handle distribution of the film in Japan with Paramount releasing in all other territories.
In this reimagined version, two teenagers discover they are magically and intermittently swapping bodies. When a disaster threatens to upend their lives, they must.
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