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Director Makoto Shinkai's hit anime film Your Name is getting a live-action adaption at Paramount Pictures, and J.J. Abrams is on board to produce. According to Deadline, Toho Co. is working with Paramount and Bad Robot to bring the live-action adaptation to theaters around the world, and Arrival screenwriter Eric Heisserer is set to pen the script. Shinkai expressed his enthusiasm for the live-action adaption, saying, "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." Continue reading…