Deadline: Remake centers on Native American woman, young man from Chicago

Entertainment news website Deadline reported on Thursday that Marc Webb ( The Amazing Spider-Man , 500 Days of Summer ) is directing the planned live-action Hollywood adaptation of Makoto Shinkai 's your name. anime film. In addition, Deadline also provided a description of the new film's plot:

A young Native American woman living in a rural area and a young man from Chicago discover they are magically and intermittently swapping bodies. When a disaster threatens to upend their lives, they must journey to meet and save their worlds.

Paramount Pictures and J. J. Abrams' Bad Robot Productions is producing the new film. Abrams ( Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens ) and Lindsey Weber from Bad Robot are credited as producers alongside Genki Kawamura , the original film's producer. Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Eric Heisserer ( Arrival , Bird box ) is penning the script. Paramount and Bad Robot will work with the original film's producer TOHO , who will distribute the new film in Japan.

Heisserer earlier stated that the Japanese rights holders requested a Westernized take on the source material. "They stated if they wanted a Japanese live-action version, they would just do it themselves," he said. "But they want to see it through the lens of a western viewpoint."

The original 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. Funimation Films screened the film in North America.

Sources: Deadline (Mike Fleming Jr), Comic Natalie