Twisters director explains why his live-action adaptation of hit anime Your Name didn't work out: "I realized I had written something I just couldn't even shoot"

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Twisters 💝director Lee Isaac Chung has spoken about his take on the live-action adaptation of Your Name.

Your Name, released back in 2016, is considered one of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best anime movies of all time (our own 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Your Name review gives the m⛄ovie the full 5 stars). Chung was set to helm a live-action remake in 2020, but departed the project in 2021.

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"I like the animated film," he added, "but what I didn't realise i𒉰s how hard it is to adapt a Japanese animated movie and to try to do that for America. That was the goal that Toho had put before us. But it's really hard to 👍do."

But, despite lots of hard work, it just didn't work out. "During the pandemic I worked on that script for many months," Chung sa൩id, "and ultimately came to a place where I realised I had written something I just couldn't even shoot."

Your Name follows two high schoolers who🙈 begin swapping bodies, even though they've never met. Raya and the Last Dragon Carlos López Estrada is now set to helm the live-action adaptation, which will follow a Native American woman and a man from Chicago. J.J. Abrams's Bad Robot is producing, with Toho distributing in Japan and Paramount int💯ernationally and in the US.

While you wait for the live-action Your Name, check out our guide to the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best anime to watch now to fill out your watchlist, or try our roundup of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best anime on Netflix.

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