"Your Name.," one of the highest-grossing Japanese anime films in history, will be reborn as a live-action Hollywood remake.
Makoto Shinkai's body-swapping sci-fi love story, released last year, will be adapted by Paramount Pictures and J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot Productions, the film's original producers said Thursday.
" 'Your Name.' is a film created with the innate imaginations of a Japanese team and put together in a domestic medium," Shinkai said in a statement released by Japanese distributor Toho Co. "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."