Paramount and Bad Robot will work with Toho Co., which produced the original, on the development of the project.
According to Hollywood Reporter, Paramount Pictures and J.J. Abrams via his Bad Robot banner (Alias, Lost, Star Trek, Star Wars) are teaming up to adapt hit anime movie Your Name. Oscar-nominee Eric Heisserer (Arrival) has been tapped to write a script for a live-action movie.
“When such a work is imbued with Hollywood filmmaking, we may see new possibilities that we had been completely unaware of.